Prosecutors are seeking a life sentence for a former Swiss cantonal politician who is accused of drugging and sexually abusing several women and a child. The man is accused of multiple counts of attempted murder, aggravated rape, aggravated sexual as...

Switzerland’s foreign trade picked up significantly in the second quarter, driven mainly by strong sales of pharmaceutical products and a rebound in trade with North America. Between April and the end of June, exports rose by 8.8% compared with the...

A car accident in the San Bernardino tunnel in southeast Switzerland led to the route being closed for several hours. Other cars were diverted via the San Bernardino Pass, whilst heavy goods vehicles and buses were held at the service areas in Campag...

New mothers in Switzerland should be able to claim six months’ maternity leave, according to a petition submitted to the Federal Chancellery with 110,000 signatures. According to Campax, the organisation behind the proposal, the measure would impro...

Around 50 passengers were evacuated from Zurich airport's Skymetro after it came to a halt in the tunnel due to a technical fault. The fully automated metro linking the airport’s main building to Terminal E came to a halt on the 1.1-kilometre route...

The organisers of the anti-abortion 'March for Life' have challenged Zurich’s decision to hold the rally in the suburb of Oerlikon instead of the city centre. The rally intends to appeal the city’s decision in the courts. Zurich had once again al...

Swiss food manufacturer Nestlé is expanding its pet food business and investing around CHF520 million in a factory and logistics centre in northern Italy. From 2029, the site will serve as a hub for wet food for dogs and cats, as well as providing l...

Over the past few weeks, water has been transported by helicopter to the Alps in the Swiss canton of St Gallen. However, according to a new motion tabled in the St Gallen cantonal council, it is unclear who is responsible and when the offers of assis...

The European Commission is stepping up antitrust proceedings against the construction chemicals group Sika and other manufacturers. The Commission has sent statements of objections regarding suspected price-fixing in relation to chemical additives fo...

American director James Gray will be presented with the Pardo alla Carriera lifettime achievement award at the Locarno Film Festival. The director will receive the award in Piazza Grande on Sunday August 9, before presenting his new film, Paper Tiger...

Snowmaking infrastructure at Swiss ski resorts could be adapted to meet the growing threat of forest fires. The ski region of Adelboden-Lenk in the Bernese Oberland offers an example of how this could work. Dry soils, low water levels and limited rai...

The increasing frequency of heatwaves is impacting ozone concentrations in the lowest layer of the atmosphere, according to Swiss research. Sunny and dry weather promotes the formation of ground-level ozone, as the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT) n...

The closure of a Swiss factory that manufactures precision components shows that the crisis in the German car industry is also having an impact in Switzerland. The St Gallen-based industrial group SFS has decided to close its plant in Flawil by the e...

The South Korean contract biopharmaceutical manufacturer Samsung Biologics intends to acquire the Swiss active pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturer Polypeptide. The company is offering CHF44.31 per share in cash, valuing Polypeptide at around CHF1....

The city of Zurich plans to close off part of the Sihl riverbank on the Allmend Brunau to dogs. Several dozen people protested against this with their dogs on Saturday afternoon. A section of the right bank of the Sihl, approximately 450 metres long,...

If nuclear power stations were to be authorised again in Switzerland, this would have a negative impact on employment in the construction and renewable energy sectors. A recent study by the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) suggests that t...

On Saturday in Basel, the environmental lobby group Greenpeace staged a protest against plans by the Swiss company Allseas to carry out deep-sea mining. At around 9.30 pm, activists projected a film onto the building of the Old University on the bank...

Switzerland’s first campsite reserved exclusively for those aged 16 and over caused an uproar but is now fully booked. In the middle of the peak holiday season, the owners couldn’t be happier: the “Lazy Rancho” in Unterseen, near tourist hots...

On Saturday morning, around 60 people demonstrated in Amsteg against through traffic and holiday traffic. They crossed a pedestrian crossing in single file, thereby blocking the traffic. The demonstrators held up placards bearing slogans such as “W...

Start-ups led by women continue to have a limited presence in the Swiss venture capital market. In the first half of 2026, just over 7% of venture capital was channelled to companies with female CEOs. The proportion of funding allocated to women-led ...

In the run-up to the Locarno Film Festival, its artistic director, Giona Nazzaro, has called for cinema to be accessible to the general public. There should be no divide between arthouse filmmakers and the wider audience, he says in an interview with...

A bolt of lightning killed 97 blacknose sheep on an alp in the Swiss canton of Valais on Thursday night. Around 80 animals survived the lightning strike during a night-time thunderstorm on the Eggerhorn alp in the Binntal valley. One of the sheep far...

Switzerland has extradited a member of the 'Ndrangheta organised crime gang, who was arrested at the end of January, to Italy. The Federal Office of Justice stated, in response to an enquiry, that the person is currently in Italy. The authorities the...

Most people fined under Zurich’s face-covering ban are masked football fans rather than women wearing burkas or niqabs. Swiss voters approved the so-called 'burka ban' in 2021, introducing clothing regulations into the federal constitution for the ...

Swiss energy firm Romande Energie has acquired a minority stake in the Finnish company Hyperion Robotics for an undisclosed sum. "This investment marks the seventh in Romande Energie’s corporate venture capital portfolio and the first to be made ou...

The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich has transferred 100 petabytes of climate and environmental data from NASA cloud servers to the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Lugano. The volume is enormous: 100 petabytes is roughl...

Bob Dylan is coming to Zurich’s Hallenstadion for a concert on November 1. Advance ticket sales for this one-off performance will begin next Wednesday. The legendary singer-songwriter’s current tour kicks off in the United States on Saturday and ...

Switzerland has taken note of European Commission plans for reducing CO2 emissions, which were outlined on Friday. The EC is proposing a revision of the European Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) from 2030 onwards. The target of reducing CO2 emissions b...

Switzerland has joined a NATO partnership for the joint procurement of ammunition. The aim of the cooperation is to reduce costs and shorten delivery times, said the Federal Office for Defence Procurement (Armasuisse). According to Armasuisse, Switze...

Swiss customs officers stopped a delivery van carrying 40 bee colonies. The insect cargo was refused entry into Switzerland as it had no import licence. The driver was fined several hundred Swiss francs by customs officials in Tägerwilen, near to th...