pomurec.com
Pomurec.com is a Slovenian news website for people who live in Pomurje or want to follow this northeastern region closely.
What is Pomurec.com?
Pomurec.com is a free local news portal written mainly in Slovenian.
The site began publishing in 2010 and marked its fifteenth year in August 2025.
Its team describes it as one of the best-known and most-read online media outlets in Pomurje (Pomurec.com anniversary article).
This narrow local focus is the site’s main strength.
Large national news sites may cover Murska Sobota after a major storm, election, or crime.
Pomurec.com also reports on the smaller events that shape daily life.
These include school ceremonies, village celebrations, road closures, football games, new businesses, local jobs, fires, weather warnings, and town projects.
Which area does the website cover?
Pomurec.com covers Pomurje, a region in northeastern Slovenia beside the Mura River.
Pomurje has 27 municipalities spread across 1,337 square kilometres (Murska Sobota Development Centre).
Murska Sobota is the region’s main cultural, business, school, and government centre.
The website does not treat the region as one single place.
Readers can open news pages for individual municipalities such as Beltinci, Lendava, Ljutomer, Moravske Toplice, Radenci, and Gornja Radgona.
This town-by-town structure makes the portal useful for residents who want news from their immediate area.
It also reflects how people experience local life, where a road repair or water cut in one village can matter more than a distant national story.
What can readers find on Pomurec.com?
Local news sits at the centre of the website.
Its wider menu includes politics, business, culture, young people, entertainment, crime, interviews, motoring, and social trends.
Sport has separate areas for football, handball, basketball, volleyball, and other activities.
The home page also highlights breaking alerts, popular articles, reader comments, older stories, and recommended reports (Pomurec.com home page).
Photos and videos appear often because many stories concern festivals, concerts, storms, sports, and public events.
A calendar lists activities with their dates, times, and locations.
The site also displays local job reports, weather information, folk sayings, and a small dictionary of Prekmurje words.
A classified section called “Šefta se” lets people advertise items for sale.
This mix makes Pomurec.com more than a standard newspaper page.
It works like a shared notice board for the region.
Why does its local reporting matter?
Small communities need places where everyday events remain visible.
A new laboratory, a damaged road, a charity show, or a village fire may affect many local people without becoming national news.
Pomurec.com gives these stories a permanent and searchable place online.
The portal also asks readers to send ideas, criticism, information, and stories that its journalists may have missed (Pomurec.com anniversary article).
That invitation turns readers into possible news sources.
The comments section adds another local layer by letting residents discuss published stories.
The site asks users to write in standard Slovenian and calls for calm, reasoned discussion without hate speech (Pomurec.com commenting guidance).
How popular is Pomurec.com?
Pomurec.com reported in 2025 that it sometimes reached more than 200,000 different readers and over 1.5 million page views in one month.
These are the website’s own figures rather than independently audited numbers, so they should be read as self-reported claims.
Even so, the size of its public social audience supports the view that it has a strong regional name.
Its Facebook page describes the service as free online news from Pomurje and has tens of thousands of followers (Pomurec.com on Facebook).
Its long publishing history also matters because many small digital news projects disappear after only a few years.
Who will find the website most useful?
Pomurec.com is most useful for people who live in Pomurje, have family there, run a local business, or plan to visit the region.
Visitors can use it to find events and learn what is happening beyond the usual tourist attractions.
Pomurje is known for thermal water, the Mura River, regional food, castles, vineyards, and a rich mix of dialects and cultures (Slovenian Tourist Board).
Most content is in Slovenian, so international readers may need browser translation.
The website is less suitable for someone seeking deep coverage of world affairs or all of Slovenia.
Its real value comes from doing the opposite.
Pomurec.com stays close to one region and records the people, problems, celebrations, and small changes that define life there.
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