The Estonian Defense Forces are making significant investments in Ida-Viru County, including relocating the 1st Infantry Brigade headquarters to Jõhvi and preparing to establish a new base in Narva.

An anthropologist suggests that Estonia's Ida-Viru County functions as a societal 'storage space' for inconvenient topics, much like people use basements for important but bothersome belongings.

Estonian scientists have released the country's first regional labor forecast, indicating that Ida-Viru County will require more than 13,000 new workers over the next ten years.

Two people died in a car accident in Ida-Viru County, Estonia, on Saturday evening, with police investigating if alcohol was a contributing factor.

The Air Force, in cooperation with the U.S. Army, is practicing with battle-tested new counter-drone systems as part of exercise Digital Shield in the eastern Ida-Viru County this week.

Ride-hailing company Bolt is paying its drivers different rates across Estonia depending on the region, and has raised fares in areas like Saaremaa and Ida-Viru County after successful driver protests against low pay.

The arrival of spring has brought the first brush fires of the year to northeastern Estonia, with Ida-Viru County experiencing these early blazes in March.

Estonia's first film campus is being built in Ida-Viru County and work is underway to ensure the region has people who can support the industry.

The Russian Federation is reportedly using aerostats equipped with reconnaissance equipment to continuously monitor Eesti Energia's power plants and shale quarries in Estonia's border county of Ida-Viru County.

A new exhibition dedicated to the memory of one of its founders – Aleksandr Popolitov – has opened at the Sillamäe Museum in Ida-Viru County. Featuring works by Popolitov's widow Nadežda and their daughter Darja, the exhibition has become a family art project.

A motorcyclist discovered a sinkhole in a field near the Jõhvi–Tartu Highway in Jõhvi Municipality, Ida-Viru County, prompting a response from rescue services.

A court has reversed the part-closure of a high school in Ida-Viru County, upholding parents' arguments that pupils' Estonian language would suffer by attending alternative schools in the area.

Erik Gamzejev, in a Vikerraadio commentary, argues that Mihhail Stalnuhhin's actions should not be equated with the interests or reputation of Ida-Viru County.

As it shifts fully to Estonian, an Ida-Viru County vocational school is ending its Russian-language continuing education programs, despite state funding that remains for them.