A base jumper has suffered a fatal fall in Stechelberg, a hamlet of Lauterbrunnen, canton Bern. The man had jumped with his wingsuit from Mürren. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The accident occurred at around 1.50pm on W...

Gaming is becoming increasingly popular in Switzerland. Games on consoles in particular are on the rise. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox According to the latest Digimonitor study by IGEM and WEMF, 57% of the population now...

The Zurich public prosecutor's office has concluded there were no indications of third-party intervention in the death of Swiss People's Party parliamentarian Alfred Heer. The cause of death was an acute heart problem. +Get the most important news fr...

Swiss voters will have the final say on the Solar Initiative, which has collected 125,000 signatures, according to the Green Party. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox In October alone, 30,000 signatures were collected. The si...

As part of its 2025 annual review, the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) has reduced the prices of almost 300 medicines on the speciality list (ES) by an average of 12%, generating savings of at least CHF65 million as of December 1. +Get t...

Staff at Swiss public broadcaster RTS are calling for voters to reject a popular initiative to limit funding of the parent body SRG. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The "CHF200, Enough!" initiative will go to a public vote...

The Swiss unemployment rate continued to rise in October, from 2.8% to 2.9%. Adjusted for seasonal factors, it remained at 3%. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox At the end of October, a total of 135,212 people were registere...

Swisscom suffered a slump in profits in the first nine months of the year. The integration of the acquired Vodafone Italia is primarily to blame, which caused the result to plummet. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Net prof...

The Bührle Foundation has removed references to its Zurich location following unprecedented media and political controversy surrounding stolen Nazi art. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The week before last, the purpose of...

With the onset of winter, the Gotthard Pass and the hiking and cycling trail in the Schöllenen will be closed for safety reasons. The closures will apply from November 7, as announced by the Federal Roads Office. +Get the most important news from Sw...

SIX, the operator of the main Swiss stock exchange, will close the year CHF300 million in the red. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The main reason for this is the investment in the financial services provider Worldline. Ac...

The heads of six large Swiss companies took part in trade talks with United States President Donald Trump in Washington. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The business leaders reaffirmed their conviction that a bilateral tra...

In December, PostBus Switzerland will be trialling a new public transport service with self-driving cars around Altstätten in canton St Gallen. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The trial operation will be expanded later. P...

The Swiss foreign office will immediately allocate CHF10 million to humanitarian aid in Gaza. It is releasing a further CHF10 million to support the Palestinian Authority's reforms and promote inter-religious exchanges. +Get the most important news f...

The Swiss government wants cantons to continue to have the last say in naturalisation procedures. On Wednesday, it reiterated its rejection of the so-called "democracy initiative". +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox At the sa...

A new silverback gorilla named Yeba has moved into Basel Zoo. The integration with the existing gorilla group in the ape house has so far been successful, the zoo announced. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The 13-year-old ...

Switzerland will vote on four popular initiatives on March 8, including proposals on individual taxation and on financing the national broadcaster SRG. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The government has decided to put all ...

Trade barriers and anaemic inflation in Switzerland will weigh heavily on wage negotiations for 2026, UBS bank warned in its annual survey of employers. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Nominal wage increases are likely to ...

The Swiss economy is once again looking to the future with optimism despite the tariffs imposed by United States President Donald Trump. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The business situation improved markedly in October, ...

An alpine bat has been seen in the Swiss city of Basel for the first time. This discovery means that canton Basel-City now has 23 of the 30 bat species found in Switzerland. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The animal was f...

The hacker group Akira is threatening to publish military data belonging to a United States subsidiary of Swiss defence contractor RUAG. This has been revealed by research conducted by Swiss public broadcaster SRF Investigativ. +Get the most importan...

Bad for trees, but good for woodpeckers: a new Swiss study shows that a bark beetle infestation increases the number of woodpeckers. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Even years after a forest was infested by the pest, the w...

Swiss chocolate maker Barry Callebaut saw its profits increase in the 2024/25 financial year (to the end of August), despite a selling less chocolate. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Revenues rose by 42.4% to CHF14.79 bill...

The terrorist financing trial of cement maker Lafarge, which is a subsidiary of the Swiss company Holcim, has begun in Paris. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The first hearing focused on legal issues, in this case priority...

United States President Donald Trump has met with high-ranking representatives of Switzerland to discuss trade issues. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Trump announced the talks on his Truth Social platform. US trade repres...

The government of Swiss canton Glarus has spoken out in favour of the EU treaties in principle, but only if the Landsgemeinde, an open-air assembly, is not affected. Otherwise, it is calling on the government to take countermeasures. +Get the most im...

The Swiss Army has lost more than 30 professional military pilots in the past five years. In order to remain attractive, it plans to bring its working conditions into line with those in the private sector. +Get the most important news from Switzerlan...

The city of Fribourg has inaugurated Barbe Schinner Square. In doing so, it is honouring the memory of a woman renowned for her humanitarian commitment and devotion to those wounded in war. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox ...

The initiative “No to ten million Switzerland”, also known as the sustainability initiative, should be submitted to the electorate without a counter-proposal, says the responsible committee of the Senate. +Get the most important news from Switzer...

Switzerland holds the European record for road deaths: the number of fatalities on Swiss roads has risen by 34% over the past five years, to 250 last year alone. In contrast, this figure has fallen in most European countries. +Get the most important ...