A refrigerant leak led to a major emergency response on Zurich’s Bahnhofstrasse on Tuesday afternoon, leaving several people injured. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Emergency services took four people to hospital. A fu...

A crew member from the MV Hondius cruise ship affected by a hantavirus outbreak has been taken to Switzerland, in canton Aargau. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The cantonal medical officer has ordered a 42-day quarantine...

The European Parliament has approved stricter steel import regulations to protect the market from global steel overcapacity. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The measure, which also applies to Switzerland, would almost halv...

A dramatic turn of events occurred this Tuesday morning in the Swiss town of Sion: an employee of the municipality of Crans-Montana was notified of his being placed under investigation while being questioned as part of the investigation into the Cons...

A young French woman who was seriously injured in the New Year's fire at a Swiss bar has filed a claim with the Crime Victims Compensation Commission (CIVI) of the Paris Judicial Court. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The ...

The Swiss Banking Ombudsman dealt with an increase in the number of cases in 2025. The main cause remains fraud involving card payments and online banking services. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The Swiss Banking Ombudsm...

Swiss air traffic control company Skyguide intends to reduce its workforce by up to 220 positions by the end of 2027. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The company is responding to rising costs by opening a consultation proc...

The blackcap is now the most common bird in Switzerland. According to the Swiss Ornithological Institute's 2025 bird monitoring programme, it has displaced the chaffinch from first place. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Th...

Faced with soaring fuel prices, the Swiss are reassessing the way they travel, according to a survey. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Some 42.1% of the 1,000 people questioned between the end of April and mid-May said they...

Preventive culling of wolves has helped to slow the growth of the wolf population in Switzerland. This is the federal government's conclusion after three phases of regulation since 2023. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Mor...

Six out of ten Swiss companies are using artificial intelligence (AI), according to a study by UBS bank. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The technology is generally viewed positively. Few companies, however, see it as a su...

The reorientation of Swiss Federal Railway's freight business means changes for almost 200 employees. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Employees will have to change their place of work or retrain within the company. Redunda...

The Swiss army is conducting further field trials of minidrones, which can be used for reconnaissance or as precision weapons. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The Swiss army says that "drones are increasingly expanding the...

The Middle East conflict, along with soaring oil and gas prices, are likely to slow the Swiss economy and accelerate inflation, according to projections from UBS bank economists. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox If the war ...

A committee of beekeepers, nature lovers and parliamentarians has officially launched a people's initiative to enshrine the protection of bees and other pollinating insects in the constitution. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your in...

The solar wind satellite Smile, made with Swiss components, has safely launched into space. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox A Vega-C rocket brought the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer to an altitude of ov...

Several Swiss cantons have rejected government plans to allow asylum seekers, many from Ukraine, to convert their temporary S protection status into work permits. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox In a recent communication, ...

Switzerland’s drugs regulator Swissmedic is closely monitoring international developments around the drug Tavneos following warnings from Japan about several deaths. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The Japanese pharmaceu...

Jordan refused to fully cooperate with a Swiss delegation sent to inspect weapons exported from the Alpine state last year. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox This is revealed in a report by the State Secretariat for Economic...

Israeli armed forces have intercepted a new Flotilla for Gaza off the coast of Cyprus. Four Swiss were among those arrested, according to videos posted on Instagram. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The expedition's trackin...

The steel duties recently approved by Brussels do not violate the joint declaration on the “stabilisation and development of Swiss-EU relations” package, the European Commission argued on Monday, rejecting criticism voiced by Swiss Economics Mini...

The Ticino government received Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis on Monday. One of the topics of discussion was the health tax for cross-border commuters launched by Italy. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Relations bet...

The new Swatch and Audemars Piguet pocket watch "Royal Pop" is already being sold on at massively inflated prices shortly after going on sale. The demand is causing chaos in front of shops worldwide. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in y...

A study by the University of St Gallen (HSG) is calling for the abolition of the OECD minimum tax. It says the rules are outdated, legally risky and detrimental to Switzerland as a business location. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in y...

The Swiss crowdfunding market grew again in 2025 after three years of decline. The volume of financing brokered via online platforms rose by 14% to CHF629 million ($800 million), Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU) reported on Mond...

Despite the oil price shock and customs turbulence, the Swiss economy performed well at the beginning of 2026. However, it is uncertain whether this trend will continue. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Real, seasonally adj...

Switzerland has commended the Geneva-based World Health Organization (WHO) for steering the response to the hantavirus. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox On Monday in Geneva, Interior Minister Elisabeth Baume-Schneider calle...

The crisis in the Middle East could cost 14 million full-time equivalent jobs this year if the price of a barrel of oil exceeds the average for the start of the year by 50%. The figure would rise to 38 million by 2027, according to the International ...

Thanks in particular to satellite observations, a doctoral student at the University of Neuchâtel (UniNE) has observed an unexpected recharge of water in an underground cavity in a river basin in Syria. +Get the most important news from Switzerland ...

A major step has been taken in Geneva to combat type 1 diabetes. An innovative hydrogel used on mice paves the way for a bioartificial pancreas that will do without insulin injections in the future, the University of Geneva (UNIGE) announced on Monda...