A 61-year-old woman died in a cable car accident in the Engelberg-Titlis ski resort in central Switzerland after a cabin crashed down a snowy mountainside on Wednesday morning. The woman was alone in the gondola, Nidwalden cantonal police have confir...

The Swiss biopharmaceutical contract manufacturer Lonza plans to relocate around 40 jobs, including some from Visp in canton Valais, to the Indian city of Hyderabad by the end of 2026. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox "Lonz...

Motorists travelling to southern Switzerland over the Easter weekend should expect long delays. Traffic will already be heavy on the weekend before Easter on March 28-29. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Some routes will be...

Adults seeking treatment at Swiss hospitals' accident and emergency (A&E) departments without a doctor's referral note should pay a fee of CHF50 ($63), say lawmakers in the House of Representatives. The goal is to curb rising healthcare costs. +Get t...

Five Swiss citizens who survived a boat accident in the Seychelles have returned to Switzerland. A Swiss man and woman are still missing, the Swiss foreign ministry has confirmed. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox For reason...

Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) has been forced to cancel hundreds of flights this summer due to a shortage of cockpit staff as well as technical and structural bottlenecks. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox A total of...

The State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) has lowered its forecast for Swiss growth this year due to the conflict in the Middle East. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Swiss gross domestic product (GDP) in 2026 is ex...

UBS has completed the migration of Swiss-booked clients of Credit Suisse, which it took over in 2023. The bank has now completed the migration of all former Credit Suisse clients to UBS infrastructure globally, it said on Wednesday. +Get the most imp...

A Zurich district court has ordered that a 27-year-old Swiss man be placed in a secure clinic to undergo psychiatric treatment after he assaulted Orthodox Jews and prepared an antisemitic knife attack that was thwarted in December 2024. The court fou...

Switzerland's energy supply is secure despite the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, according to government officials. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox A meeting of a national committee responsible for energy supply secu...

Swatch Group CEO Nick Hayek took a pay cut in 2025 after the watchmaker reported a nearly 90% plunge in profits. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox According to the company's 2025 annual report published on Wednesday, the Swa...

Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) is temporarily doubling its flights to the Indian capital New Delhi owing to the situation in the Middle East. It is also extending the suspension of flights to and from Tel Aviv until April 9. +Get the most impo...

American pop star Katy Perry is among the main artists on the bill at the 49th Paléo Festival in Nyon, western Switzerland, which runs from July 21-26. Also performing in Switzerland's largest openair festival will be The Cure, Gorillaz, Vanessa Par...

A new particle with a structure similar to that of a proton has been discovered at CERN. Four times heavier than a proton, it is made up of two charm quarks and a down quark, CERN announced on Tuesday. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in...

After the Swiss House of Representatives, the Senate on Tuesday rejected the food initiative as too extreme. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The popular initiative, submitted by a citizens' committee, calls in particular f...

The cantonal laboratory of Basel City has detected the dengue virus for the first time in a study of captured tiger mosquitoes. This is the first published detection of this virus in mosquitoes north of the Alps, according to the laboratory. +Get the...

Since last Friday, Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) has been offering flight attendants financial incentives for voluntary resignation or a temporary break. The aim is to reduce the airline's surplus of cabin crew. +Get the most important news f...

Long-lasting pollutants are widespread in Swiss soil, a study shows. Sites associated with the use of fire-fighting foams or the spreading of sewage sludge show significantly higher contamination. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your...

Cyberattacks and espionage incidents are on the rise in Switzerland, according to Karin Kayser-Frutschi, president of the Conference of Cantonal Justice and Police Directors. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox "These are not ...

Paying with debit cards abroad is usually much cheaper than with credit cards, according to an analysis by the Swiss comparison service Moneyland. Optimising the choice of card can save over a hundred francs on holiday expenses. +Get the most importa...

The Swiss National Bank (SNB) intervened relatively little in the foreign exchange market last year. Only after US President Donald Trump's Liberation Day at the beginning of the second quarter did the monetary authorities buy foreign currency on a l...

When a fire was set on a Swiss PostBus last Tuesday, there were nine people on board: the driver and eight passengers, including the man who triggered the fire. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The Fribourg cantonal police ...

The federal budget relief package has been finalised. On Tuesday the House of Representatives ironed out the final differences in the bill. Compared to the government's proposal, the savings have been reduced by around 40%. +Get the most important ne...

The two parliamentary chambers in Switzerland have reached an agreement on the reintroduction of double surnames. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox After a brief debate, the Senate agreed with the House of Representatives p...

Around a thousand travellers from Switzerland are still stranded in the Middle East. Around 6,600 Swiss nationals living in the Gulf region are also registered on the Travel Admin app. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox This...

For the first time in almost half a century, attendance in Swiss cinemas fell below the 10 million mark. In 2025, Swiss cinemas recorded 9.47 million admissions, some 8% less than the previous year. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in y...

The Swiss housing market remains tense, with prospective tenants facing the worst shortage since 2014, the Federal Office for Housing (FOH) said in its annual report on Monday. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Based on tre...

Switzerland is deeply alarmed by the “rapid” and “dangerous” deterioration of the security situation in the Middle East following the US and Israeli strikes, stated a representative of the Swiss mission to the UN in Geneva. + Get the most imp...

Children and young people are worried about the world and the future, according to the second youth study by Pro Juventute. According to the study, young female migrants are under particularly heavy pressure. + Get the most important news from Switze...

Beavers bring "numerous benefits" to humans and nature, according to new research carried out on Monday by a consultancy commissioned by the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN). They are the best ally for restoring living waterways. + Get the m...