The prime minister called on people to limit social contact as the legal debate over emergency powers continues.

Porvoo is another potential location for the Finnish state-owned company's new facility.

The papers look at the lessons that can be learned from the past year fighting the coronavirus pandemic.

The government has proposed that licensed premises close from next Monday, but the schedule for passing the bill is tight.

The National Coalition Party aims to nominate a replacement candidate next week after Kirsi Piha withdrew from the race.

There were 61,000 less people in employment in January compared to the same period last year.

Exercise and free-time facilities closed on Monday can reopen, but with no more than 10 people present at any time.

Prosecutors says that more than two kilos of cocaine were smuggled internally into Finland from the Netherlands in just over a year.

Many people around Finland trying to book vaccination times face congested phone lines and confusing instructions.

Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has been living in exile in Lithuania since last summer's disputed election.

The possibility of emergency curfews has led some papers to speculate what restrictions on movement might look like.

The government had planned to "partially" introduce two sections of the Emergency Powers Act.

Kuusamo is located in a seismically active area prone to quakes that usually register under 2.0 on the Richter scale.

The party hopes to nominate a replacement candidate by next week, with the election due to be held on 18 April.

Around 400 workers from the site are to be tested for coronavirus this week.

A 22-year-old woman who suffocated her infant child in Vantaa last April has been sentenced to prison on a charge of murder.

The government also submitted a proposal to Parliament on the closure bars and restaurants for a three-week period.

The number of government office premises is likely to decrease sharply in the future.

While the app was downloaded 2.3 million times, it has not significantly helped to track infection chains, Iltalehti reports.

Finnish papers expect to see a formal step towards more stringent measures to battle the coronavirus epidemic on Monday.

Team sports taking place in privately owned facilities can continue during Finland's March shutdown.

The government said there wasn't enough evidence that canines could detect the virus, according to Helsingin Sanomat.

The MP had formed his own, one-man parliamentary group after being removed from the Finns Party’s group last year.

The Prime Minister's office is preparing amendments to the Emergency Powers Act, permitting a curfew, the minister said.

Although the comment on an Instagram post was completely inappropriate, the offence was minor, the prosecutor says.

City and privately-run facilities in the capital region will close for two weeks from 1 March, but there are exceptions.

Video material released by an animal rights organisation showed dogs being punched, kicked and strangled.

Measures aimed at tackling the pandemic have had a huge impact on Finland’s events industry.

Nearly 800 workers at a shipyard in Rauma were ordered to quarantine after an infection outbreak.

Sanna Marin said she wouldn't rule out the possibility of curfews if the Covid situation continued to deteriorate.