A rockfall caused an interruption of several hours on the Albula line of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB ) between Thusis and Tiefencastel on Thursday. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The first trains were running again shortly ...

A 600kg bull that escaped on Thursday in the Montalchez region of canton Neuchâtel has been found in a pen surrounded by several cows. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox No one was injured during its escape, the cantonal pol...

The Bern-based chatbot "Sophia" has won the United Nations' "AI for Good Impact Award 2025". The chatbot is designed to help victims of domestic violence. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Sophia is a multilingual digital co...

Around 2,000 fans watched the Swiss women's national football team reach the quarterfinals of the European Championships at the public viewing at Zurich's main railway station. There was huge jubilation when Switzerland scored the equaliser and when ...

Switzerland and Ukraine have signed an international treaty in Rome to cooperate in the reconstruction of the war-torn country. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The Ukraine Recovery Conference is being held in the Italian c...

Switzerland is reopening three federal asylum centres to respond to the seasonal increase in applications. Nine centres were closed during the winter as the rate of applications fell. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox "As ex...

The President of the Human Rights Council, Swiss UN Ambassador Jürg Lauber, regrets United States sanctions on the rapporteur on the Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The United ...

Postfinance, the financial arm of the Swiss post office, will shed fewer jobs than originally announced as part of a reorganisation. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Up to 130 jobs will be cut by the end of November - 11 fe...

A snow leopard has given birth to three cubs at Zurich zoo. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox he two-month-old males are now starting to explore the Panthera enclosure. They don't have names yet. The snow leopards were born ...

The European Women's Football Championship in Switzerland has been a success so far. The eight host cities draw a very positive balance of the first week of the tournament. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The stadiums are ...

Thanks to improvements in the energy efficiency of buildings, the increasing use of renewable energies for heating and the increased use of biofuels, CO2 emissions from fuels in Switzerland fell last year. +Get the most important news from Switzerlan...

The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has upheld a 2023 decision that Switzerland violated the rights of South African athlete Caster Semenya. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The judges found that ...

Swiss chocolate producer Barry Callebaut was hit hard by high cocoa prices in the first nine months of its fiscal year. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The world's largest chocolate company generated more income than in th...

Hundreds of people have demonstrated in the Swiss city of Fribourg after the fatal stabbing of a mother and baby. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Between 200 and 300 people laid flowers in honour of the victims and express...

The Swiss mortgage market witnessed subdued growth in 2024 due to rising costs and stricter regulations. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox This is the conclusion of the Mortgage Market Study 2024 published by MoneyPark. Acco...

The mayor of the Swiss town of Porrentruy, which has been in the headlines in neighbouring France after restricting access to a public swimming pool to locals after a spate of anti-social behaviour, says he has received much support in recent days. +...

This summer researchers at Swiss universities will make available a large language model (LLM), an AI programme trained on vast amounts of data, developed on public infrastructure. A defining feature of the model is its multilingual fluency in over 1...

After a one-year test phase, Zurich's cantonal police are introducing an online police station. Demand is high and the response from the public has been positive. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox During the trial phase, aro...

The chic resort of St Moritz in southeastern Switzerland has registered "summer" as a trademark under the name "St Summer". The resort in canton Graubünden is launching a campaign to strengthen its summer tourism business. +Get the most important ne...

The Federal Office of Transport (FOT) said on Wednesday that 43 railway stations had been adapted for people with reduced mobility last year. The vast majority of passengers (82%) now benefit from easier access to stations, it says. +Get the most imp...

The prices of homes and apartments in Switzerland rose again in June. In the Lake Geneva region, prices of detached houses rose sharply. Meanwhile, in Zurich and its surrounding region the opposite trend was observed. +Get the most important news fro...

Switzerland's main airports are preparing for a busy summer holiday period. A number of changes have been introduced to improve passenger flows that are expected to be well above average in July and August. +Get the most important news from Switzerla...

Zurich police have investigated 48 cases of fan violence at stadiums in the Swiss city since last autumn and arrested a total of 38 people, Swiss public television, SRF, reports. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Among the 4...

Certain activities of the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council cannot be carried out in 2025-2026 due of the ongoing cash crisis affecting the UN. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox After more than three weeks of ...

Two plaintiffs in a serious war crimes case against former Algerian Defence Minister Khaled Nezzar have filed an appeal with the European Court of Human Rights. The Swiss Federal Criminal Court had closed the case after the death of Nezzar in 2023, a...

The Beznau nuclear power station in canton Aargau has been generating electricity again since Tuesday, as the Aare River has cooled down. Both reactors were disconnected last week as the river water temperature had risen above 25 degrees Celsius. +Ge...

Swiss energy minister Albert Rösti says a secure energy supply for Switzerland is a strategic objective for the country. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox It will take more than the simple implementation of a federal law to...

The Swiss federal technology institute ETH Zurich is establishing an Earth Observation Centre, funded by a donation of CHF100 million from the estate of the late watch dealer Jörg G. Bucherer. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your in...

Switzerland exported more than 20% more war materiel in the first half of 2025 compared to the same period last year. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (Seco) reported around CHF358...

Two out of three Swiss residents believe that Geneva plays an important international role, according to the Yougov opinion research institute. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Approval is higher in Ticino (74%) and French-...