Around 40 people are dead and 115 seriously injured after a fire tore through the "Le Constellation" bar in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana in southern Switzerland on January 1, according to Valais cantonal police. An investigation is continuin...

At the stroke of midnight on Wednesday, the Swiss town of Moutier and its 7,300 inhabitants officially switched from canton Bern to canton Jura in northwestern Switzerland. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox “The town will ...

Various changes to Swiss laws and regulations came into force on January 1. Here’s a selection. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Traffic and transport: From January 1, the Swiss federal government’s financial support fo...

Switzerland has welcomed the New Year with bells and fireworks. While Bern residents listened to the cathedral bells, thousands of people crowded around Lake Zurich for a spectacular fireworks display. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in...

Vaccine developer Janssen is closing its plant in Bern-Bümpliz. It is still unclear whether the site will be sold to a third party. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Johnson & Johnson, to which the company belongs, is conti...

Switzerland reached a new peak in company start-ups this year: up by more than 5% year-on-year, they will reach a record 55,654 in 2025. Among the French-speaking cantons, Geneva, Fribourg and Jura were particularly active. +Get the most important ne...

A 53-year-old man suffered life-threatening injuries on Tuesday afternoon after falling from a chairlift in Melchsee-Frutt from a height of about 8 metres in canton Obwalden. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The Obwalden ca...

This year, the flu epidemic has started earlier than a year ago. The number of registered cases of influenza has almost doubled compared to the previous year, as the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) announced on Wednesday. +Get the most importa...

The group photo of the seven-member Swiss Federal Council (executive body) is an annual ritual. It is not just a souvenir but also captures the mood and ambitions of the government through symbolism. For the new Federal Council photo, Guy Parmelin, w...

North American tourists are increasingly visiting Swiss mountain resorts, from Zermatt to Andermatt, via St. Moritz and the Jungfrau region in the Bernese Oberland. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Martin Nydegger, head of ...

After decades of heated debate and controversy, the historic moment has arrived: Moutier, with its 7,300 inhabitants, is switching from Canton Bern to the Jura at the stroke of midnight. A banquet, a procession, torches and a sound and light show wil...

New Year's Eve fireworks are no longer a given in large Swiss cities. Basel, for example, has done away with this tradition altogether for years, and there are no fireworks in Bern, Lausanne and St Gallen either. +Get the most important news from Swi...

The Swiss National Bank (SNB) intervened very cautiously in the foreign exchange market in the third quarter of 2025. Between July and September, it purchased foreign currency worth just CHF75 million ($94 million) in order to slow down the further r...

Swiss football star Xherdan Shaqiri was granted permission to build his planned villa in Rheinfelden in canton Aargau. This was decided by the Administrative Court of Aargau, which put an end to a long legal battle. +Get the most important news from ...

Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis has signed a joint ministerial declaration urging the Israeli authorities to guarantee unrestricted access for humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip. The declaration was signed by ten countries and sponsored by the ...

The drought has led to the risk of forest fires in some high-altitude regions of Switzerland. The canton of Bern, for example, called for increased caution when handling fires and fireworks in sunny and snow-free locations. Areas above around 1,000 m...

When the euro is introduced in Bulgaria on January 1, 2026, it will be difficult to exchange the previous Bulgarian national currency, the lev, in Switzerland. Local banks have stopped the exchange. The banks are no longer able to resell the lev bank...

The administrative costs of the Swiss healthcare system are out of control, according to Arnaud Perrier, the president of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS). He argues major savings should be made on patient documentation. +Get the most imp...

Swiss retailers enjoyed a positive festive season, with some reporting solid sales growth despite cautious consumer sentiment. For Manor department stores, Christmas sales were slightly up on the previous year, a spokeswoman told the AWP news agency,...

The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) is pleased with the programme it is running with Swiss Animal Protection (SAP) for the adoption of laboratory rats by private individuals. Since the project began in April 2022, some 254 ro...

Expectations for the Swiss economy improved again in December. Following the slight increase in the previous month, the KOF Economic Barometer is rising again somewhat more strongly and has now risen for the fourth month in a row. Specifically, the e...

The Swiss army plans to massively expand its research budget by 2030 and work more closely with universities to bring the army up to speed technologically. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Drone research, cyber security, su...

The mood among consumers in Switzerland is tense. A survey shows that around a third of the population wants to tighten their belts and save money in the new year. This is particularly the case in French-speaking Switzerland and Ticino. +Get the most...

The terrorist attack in Sydney, Australia, has reinforced the measures taken by the security forces at the World Economic Forum in Davos. "Such events can happen anywhere in the world," said the commander of the cantonal police in Graubünden, Walter...

The United States has made ⁠a $2 billion (CHF1.58 billion) pledge for UN humanitarian ⁠aid, a US State Department official said on Monday, following major foreign ‌aid cuts by the Trump administration in 2025. The US slashed its aid spending th...

With the cold nights, the demand for places in emergency shelters is increasing. The cities of Geneva and Lausanne have opened additional emergency shelters to meet the demand. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The city of B...

Pornographic images or videos showing adults digitally rejuvenated to make them appear underage are illegal. This was decided by the Swiss Federal Supreme Court (FSC), upholding the conviction of a man by the Zurich courts. +Get the most important ne...

Some 47 high-profile people from central Switzerland launched their voting campaign against halving the television and radio licence fee on Monday. They warn that halving the fee for the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG SSR), Swissinfo's parent co...

The Swiss franc is not weakening, despite the shock of the US tariffs that threatened to hit the Swiss economy. According to experts, the Swiss currency should continue its upward trend of recent years in 2026. What are the arguments in favour of the...

The number of women on the boards of directors (BoDs) of companies listed on the Swiss stock exchange will increase in 2025. This is the result of a data analysis by the economic news agency AWP. After a 2024 characterised by an above-average number ...