No terrorist motives have emerged in connection with a knife attack carried out by a woman in the Swiss town of Bellinzona last January. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox A 37-year-old woman had entered a mobile phone shop i...

Many people suspected of having been infected by the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have tested negative. The number of such cases has fallen to 116, said the World Health Organisation (WHO). +Get the most important news from S...

Both chambers of the Swiss parliament have approved a bilateral agreement to allow the private sector to help rebuild war-torn Ukraine. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The agreement, signed in July 2025, will increase the ...

Five months after the fire disaster in Crans-Montana, the Initiative Phoenix association has been founded to support burn victims. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The aim of the organisation is to promote activities and me...

Digital participation in Switzerland is high by international standards, but there are major differences within the country. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Older people and those with a lower level of education are at a d...

Switzerland is set to release CHF58.3 million for European Union research programmes. The funding is part of the 2026 budget supplement of almost CHF90 million. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The government had initially ...

The Geneva headquarters of commodities trader Gunvor have been searched on the orders of the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The search is part of criminal proceedings against...

Both chambers of the Swiss parliament have approved an increase in a fund to build non-profit housing projects. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The Senate voted to increase the so-called Fonds de Roulement by CHF150 millio...

The Swiss city of Freiburg and the Jewish and Muslim communities have reached a agreement to regulate plots at St Leonhard cemetery. Other language: 1 +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The agreement regulates the long-term u...

Deadwood beetles are celebrating a comeback, but things are looking bleak for many butterflies, according to a study of Swiss insects in the last 90 years. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox This is shown by a study published...

The Swiss House of Representatives has agreed with the Senate to take tougher action against Temu and similar companies that sends tens of thousands of packages to Switzerland from China every day. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in you...

A newly launched people's initiative aims to increase digital security in Switzerland. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox According to the initiative, the federal government should lay down security regulations at constitutio...

Between January and May, 91,300 new cars were registered in Switzerland, roughly the same number as a year ago, according to Auto Schweiz. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox This was only possible because cars with electric m...

Swiss Federal Court judge Yves Donzallaz has described his relationship with fellow judge Beatrice van de Graaf as "inappropriate", but not illegal. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox However, Donzallaz said in an interview w...

A concert in the Sacré-Cœur church in Crans-Montana was staged on Monday evening commemorated the victims of the Swiss New Year's Eve fire disaster. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The Tribute to the Angels of Crans-Mont...

A silent film, long thought to have disappeared, has been identified in the collections of the Cinémathèque suisse, the Swiss national film archives. The short film from 1900 has been restored and attributed to the British director Robert W. Paul. ...

The number of reported accidents in Swiss civil aviation increased by around 20% in 2025. Four incidents with a total of six fatalities occurred in recreational aviation, the Federal Office of Civil Aviation (FOCA) said on Monday. +Get the most impor...

The Gotthard Base Tunnel celebrates its tenth anniversary on Monday. Opened on June 1, 2016, the 57-kilometre tunnel has almost doubled demand for passenger traffic on this route, according to the Swiss federal railways. +Get the most important news ...

The Swiss economy grew slightly less quickly than expected in the first quarter of 2026. Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 0.4% on an adjusted basis compared to the previous quarter, the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) said...

Over 15,000 people flocked to RTS’s new production site in Lausanne-Ecublens at the weekend. RTS plans to extend the experience by offering activities and other discoveries to the public throughout June. +Get the most important news from Switzerlan...

The Swiss Air Force's 30 F/A-18C/D fighter jets will remain in service for longer. This will bridge the existing fleet until the new F-35A fighter jets enter service in the early 2030s. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The ...

The Swiss government is launching a new national campaign against domestic, sexual and gender-based violence. The second stage of the campaign will focus on support for victims, in particular through the 142 number, the government announced on Monday...

Countless ice hockey fans cheered on the Swiss national team in the bars on Zurich's Langstrasse on Sunday evening. But cheers quickly turned to silence, according to a reporter from the Swiss News Agency Keystone-SDA. +Get the most important news fr...

Bern should not introduce a legal obligation for restaurants and hotels to accept cash payments, according to the cantonal government. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The government thus recommends rejecting a motion table...

Switzerland’s cantonal banks keep significantly more equity capital than legally required – but unlike for UBS, their capital levels go largely unnoticed. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox A bank’s size is measured by ...

The 19-year-old Lady O from canton Vaud won the 2026 edition of The Voice on French public television, TF1, on Saturday night. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Coached by French musician Florent Pagny, Lady O is the first S...

Some 26 of the country’s 32 largest lakes have seen surface temperatures never before recorded at this time of year, the Tages-Anzeiger has reported. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Lakes Zurich, Geneva, Maggiore, Lucern...

Around 2,500 people marched in Zurich on Saturday afternoon against what they called “a city of the rich”. They criticised rising rents, lease terminations, and neighbourhood gentrification. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your i...

The government’s proposed VAT increase to finance defence spending has been rather poorly received in a consultation process which ended on Saturday. Almost all political parties are critical of the idea. +Get the most important news from Switzerla...

In just over two weeks, Swiss President Guy Parmelin will meet various heads of state in Geneva as they arrive for a G7 summit in Evian, France. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox “There are always last-minute unforeseen ev...