According to Greenpeace, at the current rate, the global marine conservation target will not be achieved for another 265 years. The Swiss-based environmental organisation is calling for more protected areas as the UN Conference on Biological Diversit...

Swiss trading group DKSH is expanding in the healthcare sector through an acquisition in the Middle East and North Africa. Its Healthcare division is acquiring Newbridge Pharmaceuticals, a Dubai-based distributor of specialist medicines. The purchase...

Swiss chocolate manufacturer Lindt & Sprüngli has parted ways with CEO, Adalbert Lechner, following two profit warnings within a year. The board of directors believes new leadership is needed to put the company back on track for growth. Former group...

Riots broke out in Bern during an unauthorised demonstration on Saturday night. Emergency services were attacked with fireworks and dangerous objects. The police used rubber pellets and rubber bullets. No one was injured. The Bern Cantonal Police rep...

Due to the summer heatwave, Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) has recorded nearly 100 cases of track warping and compression deformation. In response to the exceptional heat of summer 2026, the company set up a working group. When asked about this, SBB co...

Next year, 46,000 Ukrainian refugees in Switzerland will be eligible to receive social assistance for the first time. The federal government now wants to allow the cantons to decide for themselves on the level of these payments. Local authorities con...

This summer’s drought has severely impacted the truffle season. The truffles are smaller than usual and scarce in the forests of canton Vaud, which has driven up prices. At the truffle market in the region La Côte, for example, the price per kilog...

A James Bond fan and gun collector from the canton of Solothurn has been refused a silencer. His love of the films was not deemed sufficient grounds for an exemption. The man wanted to fit his Walther PPK pistol – familiar from the James Bond films...

The earth shook during the night in Linthal in canton Glarus leading into Sunday with a magnitude of around 4.0 on the Richter scale. This earthquake is likely to have been felt throughout Switzerland, according to the Swiss Seismological Service at ...

The world’s largest pink Carac was made by a Neuchâtel-based confectioner as part of the Pink October campaign to raise awareness of breast cancer. Around 200 people, most of them dressed in pink, turned out on Saturday in Neuchâtel to enjoy a sl...

Stadler Rail has achieved a world's first: a narrow-gauge hydrogen-powered train. The train is intended for use in Sardinia and is currently being tested on a dedicated test track built in Switzerland. Regional transport in southern Italy is partly c...

Switzerland is preparing a bid to host the 2038 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. Following approval by the Swiss House of Representatives, the relevant committee of the Senate has backed the proposal, which provides for federal financial support ...

US President Donald Trump has once again been invited to the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos in January. “All the heads of state of the G20 countries already have the invitation on their desks,” Alois Zwinggi, the Forum’s pre...

Some 114,000 children in Switzerland are affected by poverty in Switzerland and another 315,000 children are at risk of poverty. Children from single-parent households and large families are particularly at risk. The Swiss Network for Children’s Ri...

Researchers at the Swiss federal insitute of technology ETH Zurich will be able to monitor changes on Earth from a newly opened Swiss Geolab. The facility will analyses data on landslides and crops from its home in canton Lucerne. The establishment o...

The Swiss canton of St Gallen has unveiled new drones for speed enforcement on the mountain pass road to Hulftegg, between Toggenburg and the Tösstal valley in Zurich. Since the start of the year, the St Gallen cantonal police have been making targe...

The spotted Sika deer from Japan could soon be migrating to the Swiss canton of Zurich in greater numbers. This is due to a European Union directive for member states to cull the animals. In Germany and Austria, the EU decision announced in the summe...

Fuel prices in Switzerland have risen again following a brief lull. Both petrol and diesel have recently gone up by five cents per litre, according to the latest figures from Touring Club Switzerland (TCS). Accordingly, the average price of a litre o...

The United Nations and Switzerland will host a major coordination meeting in Geneva on peace initiatives for Sudan. The parties to the conflict will not be attending. A total of 27 delegations are expected at the Palais des Nations for this sixth mee...

A revision of legislation governing the Swiss postal service has drawn criticism from both the left and the right of the political spectrum during a consultation process., which concluded on Thursday. Swiss Post said it welcomed the government’s pr...

Following a cyberattack on an external software provider, personal data at the Zurich pension fund – and possibly also that of Swiss Post – was also stolen. The Swiss city of Zurich said that the pension funds and payments are still functional. O...

Swiss luxury goods group Richemont is reportedly part of a consortium that aims to buy South African diamond giant De Beers. According to Bloomberg, the Richemont is in talks with the major United States jewellery retailer Signet Jewelers to join a c...

Swiss online magazine Republik has fallen victim to a cyberattack. The magazine says user data was compromised, but no credit card details were leaked. Unknown individuals exploited a security vulnerability in an analytics tool. On Wednesday morning,...

Germany and France are opening the door for Switzerland to join the ‘Made in Europe’ industrial policy, subject to strict conditions. Switzerland would be treated on an equal footing with the countries of the European Economic Area and the United...

The Swiss federal government has authorised limited withdrawals from the compulsory aviation fuel reserves. This is to mitigate the risk of a shortage of aviation fuel at Zurich Airport. Up to 30,000 cubic metres of aviation fuel can be drawn down fr...

The Zurich Public Prosecutor’s Office has brought charges against the business journalist Lukas Hässig, whose series of revelations had triggered the case involving former chairman of the executive board of Raiffeisen bank Pierin Vincenz. Hässig ...

Swiss military technology company Ruag MRO Holding and the US aircraft manufacturer Lockheed Martin have formalised their collaboration on the Rigi project. Emmen in canton Lucerne will thus become one of only four sites worldwide for the final assem...

Siemens Switzerland will have a new headquarters in Zurich-Albisrieden. The technology group has sold its existing industrial and office site to the property investor Procimmo. The new building is due to be completed by mid-2031. The Siemens site cov...

The Swiss author Gerold Späth has died just two days before his 87th birthday. In the 1970s and 1980s, he was regarded as one of the most distinctive voices in Swiss-German literature. "With Gerold Späth, we have lost a great storyteller," wrote Le...

An investigation by Swiss public television SRF has revealed that company officials suspect China was behind a cyberattack on the Swiss state-owned space company Beyond Gravity. Beyond Gravity manufactures satellite and rocket technology and is owned...