Swiss exports and imports declined in the first quarter of the year. The chemical and pharmaceutical sectors and exports to the United States were hardest hit. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Exports fell by 4.2% in the fi...

A technical glitch has forced Swiss air traffic control service Skyguide to reduce landing capacity at Zurich airport by 30%. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The action is being taken as a precautionary measure until the t...

Swiss fuel reserves lag below regulatory limits in the midst of an oil supply squeeze caused by the Middle East conflict. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The target for the range of compulsory stocks of aviation petrol is ...

A Swiss parliamentary committee has supports the lifting of a ban on the construction of new power plants as part of the debate on the "Stop the blackout" initiative. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The House of Representa...

A campaign group has accused the government of keeping the public in the dark and issuing false facts about the procurement of Covid vaccines during the pandemic. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The Federal Office of Publi...

Swiss meat substitute manufacturer Planted has reduced its workforce in recent months, particularly at management level. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The company is talking about measures to increase efficiency. Several...

The Federal Supreme Court has rejected a legal bid to overturn a referendum that paves the way for e-IDs in Switzerland. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox In September, voters approved the introduction of an electronic proof...

The road pass from Davos to Susch in the Lower Engadine region of Switzerland reopens on Tuesday at 4pm after being closed for the winter. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox This is the first step towards lifting the winter c...

Huts run by the Swiss Alpine Club (SAC) are becoming increasingly popular. With 409,000 overnight stays last year, the occupancy rate was 12.7% higher than in 2024. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The winter season made a ...

The dioceses of Basel and St Gallen want to increase the number of women in management positions with a mentoring programme. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The male-dominated organisational culture is to be further develo...

Swiss health insurer Suva recorded more than 480,000 new accident cases in 2005. Leisure accidents increased by 2.8% while incidents in the workplace decreased by 0.9%. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Overall, Suva recorde...

More and more young Swiss people are developing bowel cancer. Since 1980, the risk of new cases among the under-50s has risen by an average of around half a per cent per year, a new study shows. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your i...

The Swiss again drank less wine last year, but consumed 2.3% more domestic brands, according to the Federal Office for Agriculture. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Total wine consumption fell to 211.2 million litres. This ...

The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) concluded significantly more proceedings against financial institutions and individuals last year. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Once again, it carried out numerou...

Wages in Switzerland rose significantly in 2025, resulting in the strongest real pay increase for many years. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox According to calculations by the Federal Statistical Office (FSO), nominal wages...

The Swiss Federal Audit Office says poor financial planning has underestimated the projected cost of railway upgrade projects to the tune of several billion francs. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox In a report published thi...

Residents living near to Swiss military airbases in Payerne, Meiringen and Emmen will receive noise protection windows to reduce the noise generated by F-35A military jets. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Some 230 building...

The head of the traditional Böögg effigy exploded after 12 minutes and 48 seconds at Zurich's Sechseläuten festival, forecasting a fine summer ahead. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The Böögg exploded early, but hethe...

A new smartphone media service, Yverdon.express, has launched in Switzerland as a "laboratory for local journalism". +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The media outlet launched a three month test phase in the French-speaking...

Leading Swiss companies have not made much progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2025, according to news agency Awp. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox This is the result of Awp analysis of sustainability data, whi...

A large proportion of the Swiss population fears an increase in cyber fraud through artificial intelligence (AI), according to the AXA Cyber Worry Monitor. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Almost one in ten respondents expe...

In the 2025 financial year, the national grid company Switzerland's national electricity infrastructure operator Swissgrid saw profits fall by CHF12 million in 2025 compared to the previous year. The company invested CHF281.2 million to expand the tr...

Following a rockfall on Friday from the Swiss mountain of Titlis, experts will start clearing and assessing safety in the area on Monday. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The mountain funicular railway could remain closed f...

Swiss finance minister Karin Keller-Sutter has spoken out for the first time about her legal complaint against unknown persons for insult and defamation. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Speaking to Swiss public broadcaster...

Swiss Re CEO Andreas Berger has told the NZZ am Sonntag newspaper that artificial intelligence (AI) will radically change the nature of work. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox "Thanks to AI agents we will see productivity im...

The alpine farming sector is complaining about staff shortages, particularly when it comes to experienced dairy farmers. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox In mid-March, the Bauernzeitung newspaper wrote of an “Alpine alarm...

The Swiss government is aiming to gradually shift away from a dependency on Microsoft products, according to the NZZ am Sonntag newspaper. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox A spokesman for the Federal Chancellery told the ne...

Researchers are preparing to create artificial quakes in an underground lab in Bedretto, in the southern Swiss canton of Ticino. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Scientists have been injecting water for several days into a ...

Anne Lévy, the director of the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH), has defended the order of 61 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine during the pandemic. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox “At the start of the pandemic, c...

The world record for the largest raclette was broken again on Saturday in Martigny, canton Valais. A total of 4,942 participants attended the event, dubbed “The plus grande raclette of the world”. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in ...