Swiss manufacturer Burckhardt Compression has announced up to 220 job cuts, of which 150 will be in Switzerland and 70 at international sites. In addition to the job cuts, the organisational structure is to be simplified, selected functions consolida...

After a break of almost four years, Switzerland is resuming the transfer of asylum-seekers arriving from Italy. "The first flights have been booked," Magdalena Baker, spokesperson for the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM), confirmed to Swiss publ...

A study by Agroscope Zurich and the University of Hohenheim, Germany, shows a significant decline in wild honeybee colonies in Europe. The honeybee is classified as critically endangered, the Swiss organisation FreeTheBees announced on Tuesday. The o...

A Ukrainian man who was arrested in Switzerland and extradited to Germany was sentenced on Tuesday to 15 months’ imprisonment for espionage. According to the prosecution, he had been planning arson attacks on behalf of Russia. The Stuttgart Court o...

The Swiss Senate’s Political Institutions Committee has gone further than the government on the issue of the safeguard clause relating to immigration within the Switzerland–EU package of agreements. It has introduced an incentive tax as an additi...

Around 70 Swiss civil society organisations working in the climate, health, environmental and agricultural sectors have launched the ‘No 50°C summers!’ alliance, calling for immediate action against climate change and heatwaves. United under the...

People in Switzerland prefer to do sport outdoors. Hiking, cycling, swimming, skiing and jogging are the most popular activities. However, strength training at the gym and yoga are becoming increasingly common. On Tuesday in Bern, the defence ministr...

The number of people in employment rose in Switzerland in the second quarter. At the end of June, 5.4 million people were in employment across the country, 0.8% more than a year earlier, the Federal Statistical Office (FSO) said in a press release on...

The Valais Public Prosecutor’s Office has decided to extend the list of defendants in the case of the fire at the “Le Constellation” bar. The local councillor responsible for security in the municipality of Crans-Montana between 2017 and 2020 i...

The number of vacant flats has risen slightly in canton Zurich. Nevertheless, housing remains extremely scarce in the two Swiss cities. The cantonal vacancy rate has risen from 0.48% to 0.52%, the canton announced on Tuesday. As was the case last yea...

In Switzerland, around 80 kilograms of food per person is thrown away every year. To raise public awareness and encourage people to take action, businesses, NGOs and public authorities are organising the first National Week Against Food Waste from Se...

The Twint payment app is set to introduce direct debit from 2027. The new service is supported by Switzerland’s largest banks and is intended to offer an alternative to the traditional LSV+ direct debit scheme, which is due to be phased out at the ...

Three people were rescued by helicopter from the Joli Gorge near Niedergesteln in southwestern Switzerland on Friday. To carry out the rescue, a rescue specialist was lowered on a 50-metre rope into the gorge, which is up to two metres wide in places...

The Swiss hotel industry recorded a small increase in overnight stays in July mainly due to stronger domestic demand. The number of overnight stays rose by 0.3% compared with the same month last year, according to a preliminary estimate released on M...

A suspected hacker denied charges of developing ransomware at Zurich District Court on Monday, as prosecutors sought a lengthy prison sentence for the 52-year-old defendant. He told the court that he had never developed malware or taken part in any a...

Switzerland's wage negotiations for 2027 are shaping up to be tense. Trade union umbrella group Travail.Suisse on Monday called for a general wage increase of 2% next year. The Swiss Employers' Union (UPS), however, said an average pay rise of around...

All major Swiss political parties except the right-wing Swiss People's Party oppose the neutrality initiative ahead of the September 27 vote, arguing that it would weaken Switzerland's security and foreign policy flexibility. The popular initiative �...

Nestlé risks losing control of part of its Russian business after a local logistics company reportedly asked President Vladimir Putin to place five of the Swiss group's subsidiaries under temporary state administration. According to the Russian news...

Swiss inspectors found faults in more than one in four electrical appliances examined last year, with 65 products banned from sale. Among the 1,001 electrical appliances examined last year, 281 products had formal or technical defects, representing m...

Pupils in French-speaking Switzerland and canton Zurich return to school on Monday, while classes have already resumed in most German-speaking cantons. This is the case in cantons Vaud, Neuchâtel, Geneva and Jura, as well as in Upper Valais and the ...

Switzerland's grape harvest is set to be exceptionally early this year as prolonged drought and high temperatures accelerate ripening. In some regions, picking has already begun, an unprecedented development for mid-August. "As strange as it may seem...

Sandoz has signed a multi-million-dollar agreement with Chinese biotech company Shanghai Henlius Biotech, stepping up its expansion in biosimilars, the generic versions of complex biological medicines. The deal covers the development and commercialis...

The heatwaves and drought are taking a growing toll on Swiss cheese makers. Cows are producing less milk and farmers are running short of fodder, forcing many to incur additional costs. The situation for dairy farmers is currently "very tense", Chris...

Preventing electricity shortages over the next two decades will cost Swiss consumers about CHF4 billion ($4.9 billion), according to an estimate by business federation economiesuisse cited by NZZ am Sonntag. Electricity reserves cost Swiss consumers ...

A 73-year-old woman was killed and 12 others injured, including two seriously, in an accident involving a horse-drawn tourist carriage in Val Roseg, near Pontresina, on Saturday. The fatal accident occurred when a group of 40 tourists were returning ...

Switzerland will provide CHF600,000 ($737,000) to help secure and restore the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, a historic 11th-century UNESCO World Heritage Site in Kyiv, Ukraine, damaged in a recent Russian air strike. The funding was announced in Kyiv on Satur...

The head of the Swiss Cities Association has called for a national strategy to help municipalities adapt to climate change, warning that many urban areas were designed for weather conditions that no longer exist. "Adapting to climate change is a task...

The film Nu e locul tau aici [You Don’t Belong Here], by Romanian director Florin Serban, won the Golden Leopard, the top prize in the international competition, on Saturday at the 79th Locarno Film Festival. The film tells the story of the relatio...

The Swiss air rescue service Rega carried out 323 missions linked to mountain accidents between the start of the year and mid-August, 39 more than during the same period in 2025. The increase may be partly due to growing numbers of people heading int...

Switzerland’s Audrey Werro held off Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson to win the 800 metres title at the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham on Friday, just a day after a heavy fall in the semi-finals. The 22-year-old from Fribourg pulle...