Three people on board a small aircraft were killed on Tuesday afternoon when it crashed in the Leukerbad region of canton Valais. The victims were still being identified on Wednesday. The single-engine Cirrus SR22T light aircraft had taken off from L...

There remains a shortage of flats in Switzerland but according to an analysis by the property consultancy firm Wüest Partner, the situation could soon improve – at least in some regions. "Housing construction appears to have bottomed out," accordi...

State Secretary for Economic Affairs Helene Budliger Artieda has announced she will be stepping down from her post at the end of March 2027. The director of the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) intends to take on a new professional...

Switzerland has fallen 10 places this year in the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Gender Gap Index, dropping to 27th place. Globally, at the current rate, it will take 120 years to close the gender gap, the organisation said on Wednesday in Geneva. Sw...

Despite new cases of malaria in the area around Frankfurt Airport, the Swiss authorities do not see any major risk for Switzerland. The risk of such infections at Swiss airports is “very low”, the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) told the n...