Plans to relocate residents from the landslide-threatened Swiss village of Brienz to nearby Vazerol have been halted by a reluctance of locals to sell their land. The authorities had asked the landowners in Vazerol to sell some land to resettle the n...

A Swiss ski tour leader has been convicted of multiple counts of manslaughter through negligence after two teenagers died in an avalanche. He was for the ski tour during which two teenagers were caught in an avalanche in Meiringen in 2023. A court fo...

Two mountaineers have died in an accident on the Schalihorn mountain in the Upper Valais region of Switzerland. The two missing climbers were found dead on Thursday during a search flight. Relatives had not heard from the two mountaineers since Wedne...

Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) have invented small drones that use sound waves as fuel to power through air and on water. Researchers achieved this by equipping the vehicles with cavities that convert soun...

One in four new lorries registered in Switzerland is now fitted with electric transmission. This makes the Alpine state a European leader in electrified road haulage, reports L’Agefi. According to figures for the first half of 2026, zero or low-emi...