Fourteen young dancers were awarded prizes at this year's prestigious Prix de Lausanne international dance competition. Seventy-nine participants - 41 girls and 38 boys - from 18 countries took part in the event. +Get the most important news from Swi...

A Swiss woman was hit with a five-day suspended prison sentence for importing a pink water pistol to go with her intended carnival outfit. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The sentence for illegally importing a firearm was ...

A fire broke out at a memorial dedicated to the victims of a Swiss bar blaze, before being extinguished. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The fire brigade quickly brought the blaze under control and no-one was injured. The ...

Several thousand people in the southern Swiss city of Bellinzona have demonstrated against the "CHF200 francs is enough!" public broadcaster financing initiative. The participants - 6,000 according to the organisers, 2,000 according to the police - s...

Stefan Bollinger, CEO of Zurich-based private bank Julius Bär, has called for a Swiss register of bad bankers. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox "The advantages of registering financial market players are obvious," Bollinge...

On the fringes of the Winter Olympic Games, Swiss President Guy Parmelin spoke with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni about the fatal fire at a Swiss bar on New Year’s Eve. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The pair ex...

Switzerland’s Franjo von Allmen has won the first gold medal of the Winter Olympic Games in Italy after winning the men’s downhill race. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The 24-year-old claimed the title ahead of Italia...

More than 250 Swiss academics have sent an open letter to the ministry for education calling for the termination of a research agreement with Israel. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The letter to State Secretariat for Educ...

The Swiss domestic pharmaceutical market recorded a 5% increase in revenues of CHF8.1 billion at factory prices, last year. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Turnover expansion was held back 2.4% by price reductions enforced...

The 25th Winter Olympic Games in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, are underway with Nino Niederreiter and Fanny Smith leading out the 175 Swiss athletes at the opening ceremony on Friday evening. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in yo...

Fewer Swiss tourists are travelling to the United States. Despite optimal financial conditions, with the dollar at its lowest level against the franc since 2015, arrivals in the United States from Switzerland are set to fall again. +Get the most impo...

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is the most important institution for supporting the peace process in Ukraine, said its chair, Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis, during a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Serge...

Stadler and Siemens have received a huge order from Denmark. They are supplying 226 trains for the Copenhagen suburban railway. The order is worth around €3 billion (CHF2.75 billion). +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Ther...

The uncertain world situation with US President Donald Trump, wars and the economy in Europe are popular subjects for Basel Fasnacht 2026, the Fasnacht (carnival) committee said on Friday. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox A...

The film festival umbrella organisation "Conférence des Festivals" has warned of the consequences of the licence fee initiative, on which Swiss voters will decide on March 8. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox This would sev...

For years, car manufacturer Tesla led the field in terms of e-car sales in Switzerland. Now the US company has fallen out of the top ten. An industry expert is not surprised. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox For years, Tesl...

Alberto Giacometti's major works from his surrealist period and his famous sculptures from the period after 1945 are now on display in two rooms in the Chipperfield Building of the Kunsthaus Zürich. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in y...

This weekend, the valley of La Brévine in canton Neuchâtel hosts the 12th edition of the Fête du Froid (festival of cold). The organisers are planning a number of activities to coincide with the Olympic Games, which are being held at the same time...

Supporters and opponents of the four issues to be put to the vote on March 8 have announced sums totalling CHF8.75 million ($11.25 million), according to the Swiss Federal Audit Office on Friday. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your ...

Life in the Graubünden village of Brienz/Brinzauls in eastern Switzerland, which was threatened by a landslide, seems possible again in the long term. According to experts, the danger has changed in such a way that there will be no more long evacuat...

The Kosovar who attacked an Orthodox Jew in Zurich on Monday should no longer be in Switzerland, the migration authorities of canton Zurich said on Thursday. He is still here due to lengthy proceedings. +Get the most important news from Switzerland i...

Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis landed in Moscow on Thursday for a two-day visit as OSCE chair. The aim of the trip is dialogue with "all sides", he wrote on X. A meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is planned for Friday. +Get t...

The canton of Valais has made the first payments of emergency aid of CHF10,000 (about $12,900) for each person hospitalised or family affected by the tragedy in Crans-Montana. So far, 48 victims have benefited. "The files are currently being processe...

The World Economic Forum has launched an independent investigation into its CEO Borge Brende. The aim is to clarify his relationship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after it became known that Brende had been in contact with him. Brende is said to h...

On Thursday, the Federal Housing Office (FHO) outlined its plan to curb housing shortages. It includes a number of measures to boost public housing. The shortage is no longer confined to the cities, but is affecting the whole country. It is primarily...

Addiction to alcohol, tobacco, substances or gambling not only creates suffering among the population, but also generates enormous costs for the insured who pay health insurance premiums. This is according to Addiction Switzerland, which calls on the...

The Constitutional Chamber of the Geneva Court of Justice has ruled in favour of the canton in the case concerning the exclusion of cross-border pupils. It rejected 12 appeals from pupils living in France who wanted to be educated in the canton. Last...

The Swiss Federal Court has ruled in favour of osteopaths working in Switzerland with foreign qualifications. Based on the ban on discrimination enshrined in the EU Agreement on the Free Movement of Persons, the equivalence of domestic and foreign di...

Swiss International Airlines has taken delivery of its second Airbus A350 long-haul aircraft. The new aircraft named "Delémont" will make its first passenger flight from Zurich to Montreal on 23 February 23, the Lufthansa subsidiary announced in a p...

Over 5,000 stationary sirens sounded throughout Switzerland on Wednesday. As with last year's siren test, around 99% of the sirens worked perfectly, according to the Swiss government. The sirens sounded between 1.30 pm and 4.30 pm, depending on the l...