There have never been as many people in Swiss police custody as at the beginning of 2026. At the same time, the number of short, unsuspended custodial sentences fell to an all-time low. As of January 31, 2026, the number of detainees in Swiss prisons...

Axpo's chair Thomas Sieber, favours three to four gas-fired power plants to secure Switzerland's electricity supply. The electricity company's preferred scenario combines hydropower, other renewable energy and gas. Gas-fired power plants have major a...

Several hundred people gathered on Sunday at Europaplatz in Zurich to show their solidarity with those suffering from myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome. The organisers of the event are calling for improvements in diagn...

The director of the University Hospital Zurich (USZ), Monika Jänicke, expressed in an interview her gratitude to the informant who initiated investigations into the irregularities found at the heart surgery clinic. +Get the most important news from ...

The airline SWISS has extended its cost-saving measures to ground staff. “The aim is to reduce our administrative staff by around 10%,” said Jens Fehlinger, CEO of SWISS, in an interview with the newspaper NZZ am Sonntag. +Get the most important ...

Exactly 25 years ago on Saturday, Switzerland’s first baby hatch opened at Einsiedeln Hospital in canton Schwyz. Since then, 31 newborns have been left anonymously at eight locations in the country, said the Swiss Organisation for Mother and Child....

Swiss foreign minister Ignazio Cassis was the guest of honour at the general assembly of the non-partisan organisation European Movement Switzerland on Saturday. In his speech, Cassis supported the importance of a “stable” partnership with the Eu...

A Swiss national is among the crew onboard the cruise ship Hondius, which has been affected by an outbreak of the hantavirus. The man has no symptoms but is a contact case, said the director of the Federal Office of Public Health. +Get the most impor...

In recent weeks, feminine hygiene products have been disappearing from Swiss supermarket shelves, as several retailers negotiate prices with American giant Procter & Gamble (P&G), the manufacturer of brands including Tampax, Always and Gillette. +Get...

Séverine Chavrier, director of the Swiss theatre Comédie de Genève since 2023, has been dismissed. The Fondation d'art dramatique (dramatic arts foundation) said on Friday that it was ending its working relationship as controversy swirls around Ch...

A bilateral Franco-Swiss working meeting was held in Geneva on Friday evening. Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis met his French counterpart Jean-Noël Barrot. Discussions included the organisation of the G7 summit in Evian next June. +Get the most impo...

A Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) plane that made an unscheduled stop in Kazakhstan last Wednesday arrived back in Zurich on Friday morning with 221 passengers on board. The aircraft was forced to land in the central Asian country because of a ...

The conclusion of a trade agreement between Switzerland and the United States remains the Federal Council's top priority, regardless of Thursday's US court ruling that President Trump's tariffs are illegal. +Get the most important news from Switzerla...

Switzerland is planning to step up its fight against domestic violence by introducing round‑the‑clock, real‑time electronic monitoring of perpetrators, 24 heures and Tribune de Genève reported. Canton Vaud is set to launch a pilot project in t...

Most people in Switzerland are considered middle class, yet financial insecurity is common: roughly one in four people in the lower middle class could not meet an unexpected CHF2,500 bill ($3,200), according to the Federal Statistical Office (FSO). +...

Solar Impulse 2, a solar‑powered aircraft built in Switzerland that completed a landmark round‑the‑world flight in 2016, has been destroyed after crashing in the Gulf of Mexico. No one was on board. +Get the most important news from Switzerland...

A planned reform of unemployment insurance rules for European Union cross‑border workers could prove costly for Switzerland. According to estimates by the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), the change could result in additional annual c...

Swiss consumer confidence edged up in April, but economic expectations remain cautious and job insecurity elevated amid persistently high prices. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox In April, the overall consumer confidence in...

Swiss glaciers received little snow this winter, with sizeable deficits in the Upper Valais, Ticino and Graubünden regions – a shortfall that could accelerate glacier melt this summer. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox A ...

Only one Swiss national remains hospitalised abroad in connection with the Crans-Montana fire tragedy. He will be able to return to Switzerland next week. A total of 41 people died in the disaster, and 115 were injured; 38 remain in hospital or are r...

The Geneva-based World Health Organization (WHO) says further cases of hantavirus are possible beyond the handful recently confirmed but insists this is “not the start of an epidemic”. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox S...

The war in the Middle East will lead to a "moderate decline" in overnight hotel stays this year, warns Switzerland Tourism. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox However, the industry's promotional organisation is expecting stab...

Swiss pharmaceutica giant Roche is expanding in the field of digital pathology with an agreement to acquire United States firm PathAI. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox With this acquisition, Roche aims to expand its positio...

Monaco's financial markets watchdog has fined UBS €6 million for "numerous serious breaches" in money laundering and terrorist financing controls. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox "The number and repetition of these short...

More people received transplants in Switzerland in 2025 thanks to a record number of imported organs. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Last year, 185 deceased people in Switzerland donated their organs, according to the ann...

The war in Iran and the blocking of the Strait of Hormuz pose a risk to the security of Switzerland's electricity supply over the winter. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The trend in electricity and gas prices is also unce...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that Switzerland violated the freedom of assembly and association of a demonstration organiser. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The demonstration, which took place in Gen...

The Education Committee of the Swiss Senate has narrowly approved funding for Switzerland's participation in the EU education and training programme Erasmus+ for 2027. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The decision was taken...

OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Ignazio Cassis has called on the member states to anticipate scientific and technological developments at an early stage. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox At a two-day conference of the Organisati...

The Swiss government is unable to say whether Jeffrey Epstein owned property in Switzerland. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The government was responding to a parliamentary question, at a time when the American paedophile...