The head of the traditional Böögg effigy exploded after 12 minutes and 48 seconds at Zurich's Sechseläuten festival, forecasting a fine summer ahead. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The Böögg exploded early, but hethe...

A new smartphone media service, Yverdon.express, has launched in Switzerland as a "laboratory for local journalism". +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The media outlet launched a three month test phase in the French-speaking...

Leading Swiss companies have not made much progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2025, according to news agency Awp. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox This is the result of Awp analysis of sustainability data, whi...

A large proportion of the Swiss population fears an increase in cyber fraud through artificial intelligence (AI), according to the AXA Cyber Worry Monitor. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Almost one in ten respondents expe...

In the 2025 financial year, the national grid company Switzerland's national electricity infrastructure operator Swissgrid saw profits fall by CHF12 million in 2025 compared to the previous year. The company invested CHF281.2 million to expand the tr...

Following a rockfall on Friday from the Swiss mountain of Titlis, experts will start clearing and assessing safety in the area on Monday. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The mountain funicular railway could remain closed f...

Swiss finance minister Karin Keller-Sutter has spoken out for the first time about her legal complaint against unknown persons for insult and defamation. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Speaking to Swiss public broadcaster...

Swiss Re CEO Andreas Berger has told the NZZ am Sonntag newspaper that artificial intelligence (AI) will radically change the nature of work. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox "Thanks to AI agents we will see productivity im...

The alpine farming sector is complaining about staff shortages, particularly when it comes to experienced dairy farmers. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox In mid-March, the Bauernzeitung newspaper wrote of an “Alpine alarm...

The Swiss government is aiming to gradually shift away from a dependency on Microsoft products, according to the NZZ am Sonntag newspaper. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox A spokesman for the Federal Chancellery told the ne...

Researchers are preparing to create artificial quakes in an underground lab in Bedretto, in the southern Swiss canton of Ticino. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Scientists have been injecting water for several days into a ...

Anne Lévy, the director of the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH), has defended the order of 61 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine during the pandemic. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox “At the start of the pandemic, c...

The world record for the largest raclette was broken again on Saturday in Martigny, canton Valais. A total of 4,942 participants attended the event, dubbed “The plus grande raclette of the world”. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in ...

The maintenance backlog on the network run by the Swiss Federal Railways rose by 12% in 2025 to CHF 9.5 billion ($12.2 billion). But the Federal Railways still rates its infrastructure as “good to sufficient”. +Get the most important news from Sw...

The Patrouille des Glaciers, the historic ski touring race organised by the Swiss army, has ended with French victories in the men’s and women’s events. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Officially, the Patrouille des Gl...

The rector of the University of Zurich has spoken out against an hike in semester fees, which he says would prolong studies as students would increasingly have to work on the side. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The curre...

On the margins of the World Bank’s spring meeting in Washington, Swiss Economics Minister Guy Parmelin spoke with US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer about the trade deal which Switzerland is aiming to conclude with the US. +Get the most importa...

Lufthansa passengers can breathe a sigh of relief for now. Following strikes this week, the Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) pilots’ union said on Friday it was not planning any further action in the immediate future. +Get the most important news from Swit...

Possible asbestos residues mean the German publisher moses. Verlag has had to recall its product PhänoMint Magic Sand. This could pose a health risk. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Asbestos traces were found in some prod...

Asylum-seekers from Syria can be sent back to their country of origin. Following the suspension of asylum decisions in December 2024 in connection with the fall of the Assad regime, the Swiss State Secretariat for Migration will once again decide on ...

The Swiss electorate will vote on parliament's decision to relax restrictions on the export and re-export of war materiel. An alliance submitted a referendum with more than 75,000 signatures on Friday. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in...

In 2018, archaeologists discovered the well-preserved remains of a Neolithic village on the site of the new university campus in Biel/Bienne, western Switzerland. The settlement existed for just under five years before it was devastated by violent wi...

Cantons Graubünden, St Gallen and Thurgau have been authorised to use electronic voting in the federal votes on June 14, the Federal Chancellery said on Friday. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Procedures were checked and ...

A new audio guide will lead visitors through the French Church in Bern's city centre from Wednesday. The focus is particularly on music, which has always played a major role in Bern's oldest church. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in yo...

Visions du Réel is establishing itself as a landmark in a world where "reality is fading away". The documentary film festival, which runs in Nyon, western Switzerland, from Friday until April 26, has seen a sharp increase in output and record divers...

Nestlé needs a broad reorientation and cultural change, according to Pablo Isla, the new chairman of the board of directors. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Isla was speaking in his first address to the Swiss food giant's...

The Swiss Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) has been forced to publish unredacted contracts for procuring Covid vaccines during the pandemic. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The move follows a February court ruling th...

The Swiss Federal Supreme Court has ruled that digital devices seized from a photographic journalist can be used to investigate the suspicious death of a woman in a ‘Sarco’ suicide capsule. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your in...

Swiss federal police (Fedpol) issued 614 bans on entry to the country in 2025, four times as many as in the previous year. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The vast majority of these (512) were issued on terrorism-related g...

Swiss airline Edelweiss has cancelled some routes to the United States and Oman due to reduced passenger demand and rising fuel prices, aggravated by the geopolitical situation. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox In a stateme...