Morning papers look at the results of Sunday's regional council elections and what they may or may not mean to national politics.

The 21 new county councils start work in March. People across Finland voted for the new bodies, with the exception of Åland and Helsinki. 

Pirkanmaa has the most municipalities without representation, as candidates from Tampere took more than half of the seats on the new council.

Finland went to the polls on Sunday to elect new county councils.

Dozens of Vietnamese labourers are suspected of being victims of extortion and possibly human trafficking in a small town in western Finland.

Those in quarantine or high-risk groups may cast their ballots outdoors or from a car.

Nearly 70 percent of respondents backed compulsory vaccinations for employees in the care sector.

Some 4,000 people gathered in Helsinki on Saturday afternoon to protest against coronavirus restrictions, according to police.

More than half of eligible voters will likely cast a ballot before polling places close on Sunday, says Assistant Professor Markku Jokisipilä.

UPM, one of the world's largest papermakers, is seeking to break with decades of tradition by negotiating separate contracts for employees of five different business groups.

Divorce can alter the lives of spouses in many ways, often for the better. Many experience quite a shock, however, when it comes to money and its division between parties.

The Transaviabaltika plane flying from Helsinki to Savonlinna had to land at Helsinki shortly after take-off on Wednesday evening, with Finavia clarifying it was not an emergency landing.

Voters go to the polls on Sunday for the final day of voting in Finland's historic, first-ever regional elections.

The Paperworkers’ Union strike is in its third week.

The rapid spread of the Omicron variant has made the system of quarantines imposed by communicable disease authorities ineffective.

Finland's Sauli Niinistö and Russia's Vladimir Putin had what was described as a "long and thorough call" focused on European security and Ukraine.

Yle hosted a leaders' debate on Thursday evening ahead of Finland's regional elections on Sunday 23 January.

Teething problems with a new patient information system routine means that the vaccination status of a quarter of Covid patients in the capital region is unavailable.

Analysts say that recent comments on Finland's Nato option by Prime Minister Marin mark no policy change, but may make membership an election issue.

Finnish institutes of higher education have received 10,000 more applications for study places on English-language courses compared to last year, with nursing programmes proving to be particularly popular.

The defendants have denied committing any crimes.

We also catch up with two foreigners in Finland as they search for candidates to vote for in Sunday's county council election.

The drugs have been linked to an organised crime ring operating out of Finland, Estonia and the Netherlands.

It took a week and a half to pinpoint the animal's subspecies from DNA samples.

According to a ministerial mandate, the cost of procuring the tests should not exceed 10 million euros, including logistics.

The world ice hockey championship final was by far the most-viewed TV event of 2021.

President Biden's comments come as PM Sanna Marin tells news agency Reuters that Finland is "very unlikely" to apply for Nato membership during her term in office.

Finns Party supporters don't seem to have much interest in the regional elections, says pollster Tuomo Turja.

A study by the University of Turku examined the relationship between the socioeconomic status of an area and the development of a child’s body mass index.