The public prosecutor’s office in the Swiss canton of Valais has charged Swiss Ski vice-president Claude-Alain Schmidhalter with fraud and breach of trust. Schmidhalter, who is also chair of the organising committee for the 2027 Alpine World Ski Ch...

Francis Halzen’s Nobel Prize in Physics has a Swiss connection. Researchers from the University of Geneva are involved in the IceCube experiment, for which Belgian-born physicist Halzen was honoured this year. The research group led by Geneva-based...

A broad coalition claims to have collected over 131,800 signatures in support of a referendum against the construction of new nuclear power stations in Switzerland. The signatures were submitted to the Federal Chancellery in Bern on Tuesday. The refe...

The Zurich High Court will deliver its verdict in the case against former Raiffeisen chief executive Pierin Vincenz in January next year. The High Court announced on Tuesday that the case is currently in the internal deliberation and decision-making ...

Swiss asset manager Partners Group is set to wind up its private equity fund, Partners Group Private Equity (PGPE), which is listed on the London Stock Exchange. A large majority of investors, representing 74.12% of the share capital, voted in favour...

A campaign group insists that the public must have their say on all major projects linked to the European Organization for Nuclear Research's CERN research facility in Switzerland. The group launched a Geneva cantonal constitutional initiative and cr...

Politicians and business representatives say a Swiss fireworks ban would have far-reaching negative consequences for private and local celebrations. Opponents of the fireworks initiative are against a nationwide ban. They argue that targeted rules ar...

The Latvian airline Air Baltic, which also operates flights on behalf of Swiss International Air Lines, plans to cut between 500 and 700 jobs out of a total of around 3,000. The measures are aimed at reducing costs and stabilising Air Baltic’s fina...

More passengers took off from or landed at Zurich airport on Sunday than ever before on a single day. The airport confirmed a report in the Tages-Anzeiger stating that more than 123,000 passengers had been handled. According to the provisional figure...

Authorised hunters and gamekeepers shot a total of 17 wolves in September in the southeastern Swiss canton of Graubünden. According to Arno Puorger, head of the Large Carnivores Division at the Cantonal Office for Hunting and Fisheries, a total of 6...

A Swiss proposal to add Hezbollah to an exisiting ban on Hamas has received a mixed reaction among political parties. Following a consultation process, parties aligned to the right and centre of the political spectrum have welcomed the proposal. The ...

Swiss media group Tamedia is making further job cuts across its various newspapers. The Zurich-based group said it would cut 34 full-time posts, affecting 41 people. Of the 41 staff members affected, 28 work in the German-speaking editorial teams and...

The historically low water level of Lake Zurich is revealing something new: an island is now emerging from the water off Stäfa. Normally, only a rock – the Stäfner Stein – is visible there. The historic low water level of Lake Zurich – curren...

Switzerland's procurement of a second missile defence system will not be completed by the end of the year, as originally planned. According to the Federal Department of Defence, this would have required an urgent review of the matter by both parliame...

Dominik Hartmann, from canton Schwyz, has been named "Chef of the Year 2027" by the Gault Millau restaurant guide. This is the first time the award has been given to a chef who specialises exclusively in vegetarian cuisine. The guide has also recogni...

Swiss president Guy Parmelin arrived in New Delhi on Monday for a three-day state visit. The trade agreement between India and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) states is “mutually beneficial”, according to Parmelin. To further boost inv...

Rents in Switzerland have risen by around 32% over the last 20 years, according to the Swiss Tenants’ Association (ASI). Today, to mark International Tenants’ Day, the organisation is drawing attention to the growing financial burden on tenants i...

Cyber risks are now among the key business risks facing small-and-medium enterprises (SMEs). However, many companies still assume that they are not affected. This assumption is dangerous, according to the findings of a study published on Monday by VZ...

The Swiss government has supported an increase in Value-Added Tax (VAT) to pay for the 13th payment of the Swiss old-age and survivors' (AHV/AVS) pension. On Monday, the government advocated a rise of 0.4 percentage points, from 8.1% to 8.5%, ahead o...

The Alliance Against Rainforest Deforestation said on Monday that it had submitted 85,000 signatures in support of the referendum against the free trade agreement between Malaysia and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), which includes Switzer...

The reform of language teaching in primary schools is stirring debate in Switzerland. Left-wing parties defend early language teaching for national cohesion, while the centre-right Radical-Liberal Party defends federalism. On June 12, the Swiss gover...

In an interview with CH Media, outgoing Swiss president and economics minister Guy Parmelin has spoken out in favour of a generational change in his succession. He believes that several female politicians, who have been touted as possible successors,...

The heaviest pumpkin in Switzerland, weighing 651.5 kilos, was grown in a private garden in canton Zurich. This marks the third consecutive year that the same grower has won the Swiss championship. This exceptional specimen belongs to the Atlantic Gi...

Du fioul dans les artères by French director Pierre le Gall won the award for Best Feature Film at the 22nd Zurich Film Festival (ZFF). In the documentary category, the Golden Eye was awarded to Bucks Harbor by Pete Muller. The awards ceremony took ...

A clear majority of the Swiss population is in favour of tightening gun legislation, according to a survey. There is broad support for compulsory psychological assessments before purchasing firearms. This is the finding of a representative survey car...

Swiss Steel has announced further restructuring that will affect sites in Germany and lead to further job cuts, CEO Frank Koch said in an interview. Koch did not give any specific figures regarding the planned job cuts in his interview with the Sonnt...

At a demonstration in Geneva, around 1,500 people denounced Israel’s actions in the Palestinian territories. They called on Switzerland to impose a military, energy and trade embargo on Israel. The demonstrators, organised by the Collectif Urgence ...

Jacques Moretti, owner of the Swiss Le Constellation bar that burned down in Crans-Montana, is to undergo a psychiatric assessment amid allegations of domestic violence. The decision was taken by the canton Valais Public Prosecutor’s Office, which ...

Swiss space researcher Thomas Zurbuchen is leaving the Swiss federal institute of technology ETH Zurich for a new role with US space company Blue Origin. His post was on a three-year fixed-term contract and he had always said that he would explore ne...

So far this year, Swiss telephone operators have already taken action on more than 148 million unwanted calls. Such abuse tends to increase further towards the end of the year. Swisscom has recorded 102 million calls involving ‘spoofing’ (telepho...