The reason for the long queues at the State Traffic Inspectorate's Registration and Examination Department (REO) in Yekaterinburg has been revealed.

The cause of the huge queues for vehicle registration at the Yekaterinburg State Traffic Inspectorate may be resellers of appointment slots. A source from the EAN news agency in law enforcement reported this.

In Yekaterinburg, public transport speeds were restricted due to abnormally cold weather.

In Yekaterinburg, public transport has been slowed down due to the arrival of cold weather. The city's Department of Transport reported this. The maximum speed for trams is now 25 kilometers per hour, and for trolleybuses 35 kilometers per hour.

190 half-pairs of shoes and 200 sets of underwear for guests of the 'wedding' were seized by Koltsovo customs officers.

Koltsovo customs officers compiled a top list of violations in 2025. In first place by frequency remains the illegal import and export of currency. In second place are violations related to the failure to declare goods required to be declared — 263 commercial consignments (193 last year), mainly from China, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and the UAE.

Parents of Sverdlovsk teenagers will each pay 250,000 rubles for the attempted murder of a boy.

The Court of Verkhnyaya Pyshma ordered the recovery of 250,000 rubles from the parents of each of two 13-year-old boys who in May 2025 attempted to kill a peer. "In Verkhnyaya Pyshma the prosecutor's office recovered compensation for moral damages through the court in favor of the minor who was injured as a result of an attack by his peers in an abandoned hangar," the press service of the Sverdlovsk prosecutor's office said.

In Sverdlovsk Oblast, an infant suffocated in his sleep because of his father.

In the Shalinsky District of Sverdlovsk Oblast, an infant suffocated in his sleep while sleeping next to his father. A criminal case was opened against the man on a charge of causing death by negligence.

Due to severe frosts, the "Finists" in Sverdlovsk Oblast were replaced by regular electric commuter trains.

On Wednesday, January 14, when temperatures in the Sverdlovsk Region dropped in places to −40°C, passengers on the morning service from Nizhny Tagil to Yekaterinburg saw a standard commuter train with plastic seats on the platform instead of "Finist".

A woman from Serov disappeared without a trace after going to Yekaterinburg to see a cosmetologist.

A resident of Serov has gone missing after traveling to Yekaterinburg to see a cosmetologist. Forty-five-year-old Svetlana Shatalina told her son she would return the next day. But there has been no news from the woman for two weeks, reports "KP-Ekaterinburg".

A resident of Yekaterinburg won 15 million rubles in the lottery.

A Yekaterinburg resident won 15 million rubles in the state lottery. Evgeny works at a construction company. For two years now he has been using the same scheme, which brought him the prize.

Residents of Akademichesky got stuck in a huge traffic jam.

This morning, January 16, traffic jams formed on Wilhelm de Gennin Street in the Akademichesky district. As a result, public transport is running about half an hour late, the Yekaterinburg Department of Transport reported.

A minor will be tried by a military court in Yekaterinburg for preparing a terrorist attack on the Sverdlovsk Railway.

The Ural Transport Prosecutor’s Office has referred to court a criminal case concerning the preparation to commit a terrorist act on the Sverdlovsk Railway, the press service of the supervisory authority reports.

Ural Airlines recounted how its passengers welcomed the New Year in flight.

More than 150 passengers on Ural Airlines flight U6-263 rang in the New Year 2026 at an altitude of 10,000 meters aboard the aircraft, the carrier said on its Telegram channel.

Workers in Nevyansk asked Pasler to protect their ELZA plant from abuse of power.

In Nevyansk, employees of the local electric motor plant recorded a video appeal to the governor of the Sverdlovsk Region, Denis Pasler. In it they complained about pressure on their enterprise from the court and court bailiffs, Kommersant‑Ural reports.

Deputy Kritsky proposed extending the metro to two different parts of Yekaterinburg simultaneously.

Vladimir Kritsky, a deputy of the city Duma and CEO of LSR Real Estate — Ural, proposed building a metro in Yekaterinburg using a combined scheme in two directions simultaneously, Kommersant‑Ural writes.

A new editor for URA.RU has been appointed in Yekaterinburg.

Journalist Ekaterina Kuraeva has been appointed editor-in-chief of the news agency Ura.ru. This was reported to Kommersant‑Ural by Andrey Tkachenko, a representative of the Ridovka holding company (the new owner of Ura.ru).