Authorities reported two active fronts of the blaze, with three villages evacuated and significant damage in sparsely populated border areas. The village of Rani Lug was hit hardest, with half of the ...

In the mountain villages of Smochevo and Pastra, part of Rila municipality, residents are anticipating difficulties in converting their levs into euros due to the absence of local post offices.

In Bilyana Nikolova's grocery store in Chuprene, a village in northwestern Bulgaria, prices are now displayed in levs and euros on hundreds of food products and other items. Still, the shopkeeper, 53, ...

In southern Bulgaria, in the village of Tyurkmen, many brick houses sit empty. Their tile roofs are falling in. Gergana Daskalova, an ecologist who spent summers here with her grandparents as a young ...

In villages, concerns are running high that the euro will mean higher prices - Copyright AFP/File ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS In villages, concerns are running high ...