The Locarno Film Festival kicked off ten days of cinema on Wednesday, featuring tributes, new discoveries and competition. Italian actress Isabella Rossellini was presented with a lifetime achievement award at the opening ceremony. "This award fills ...

Lara Gut-Behrami announced on Wednesday that she was retiring with immediate effect. Having suffered a serious knee injury in November 2025, the 35-year-old from canton Ticino in southern Switzerland will not be making a comeback this season. This of...

Two new cases linked to a Legionella infection have been reported in Switzerland. According to the health department of canton Basel-City, one of the infected individuals had to be hospitalised. The total number of cases of infection with the Legione...

The Office for Information Technology in the Swiss canton of Graubünden has detected a cyberattack on one of its SharePoint servers. Initial findings suggest that no data was leaked and no accounts were compromised. On Tuesday, the Federal Office fo...

Summer 2026 is shaping up to be one of the hottest ever recorded in Switzerland. These are ideal conditions for driving solar energy production, which is reaching record levels. The related market of home batteries, designed to store photovoltaic ele...

Organisers have cancelled the Raina Rock open-air music festival in canton Basel Country, Switzerland, due to the ongoing drought. A member of the organising committee told the Keystone-SDA news agency that the event could not go ahead for safety rea...

The Gotthard road tunnel in southern Switzerland will be closed to traffic for 12 nights between August 10 and 27, 11pm to 5am. The closure for maintenance work will only apply at night time from Monday to Thursday, said the Federal Roads Office. + T...

The Graubünden authorities have launched an investigation into an incident involving livestock guard dogs, which saw two hikers injured, in the Swiss canton. The cantonal Office for Food Safety and Animal Health (ALT) announced the probe but warned ...

The ongoing heatwave has brought Swiss mountain railways a substantial increase in revenue this summer. Local visitors in particular have been flocking to the cooler heights, leading to a marked rise in visitor numbers. An analysis of visitor figures...

Swiss mining and commodities trading giant Glencore has posted net profits of $4.41 billion for the first six months of 2026, compared with a $655 million loss a year earlier. Last year's performance was hit by a write-down of nearly $900 million on ...

The invasive Japanese beetle has now spread to the Swiss capital, Bern and the town of Köniz. Canton Bern has ordered measures to prevent the pest from spreading further. The Japanese beetle can cause considerable damage to the natural environment a...

The ongoing zero interest rate policy continues to boost the Swiss property market, with residential prices rising further in the first half of 2026. Detached houses, in particular, saw a significant increase in price. + Buy or rent? Find out where y...

In the Alps in the central Swiss canton of Schwyz, water and fodder are becoming scarce due to the ongoing drought. Nevertheless, the aim is to keep the animals in their summer pastures for as long as possible. There are over 420 alpine farms in the ...

The 79th edition of the Locarno Film Festival opens in southern Switzerland with a film musical accompaniment to the silent film The General by Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman. This evening, the Italian actress Isabella Rossellini will receive an aw...

The melting of the Zermatt glacier forced the southern Swiss ski resort to suspend skiing last week. The glacier's retreat has rendered its facilities too unstable. Only the Swiss ski team can still train there, but in very poor conditions. The Zerma...

Swiss generic drugs giant Sandoz saw profits plummet by 70% in the first six months of the year as a result of huge legal costs. Profits slumped to $109 million after the company was fined around $480 million in the United States. The Rhine-based mul...

The Black Alpine pig has been saved: the Swiss Federal Office for Agriculture has officially recognised the breed, which was on the verge of extinction. This makes it the only surviving ancient breed of pig in Switzerland. This recognition is likely ...

Two hikers from Germany were involved in an accident on Monday in eastern Switzerland after an encounter with two livestock guard dogs. A 22-year-old man slid down a slope for around ten metres in Val Sumvitg, Graubünden. According to the cantonal p...

In response to the drought, the Zurich and Schaffhausen Farmers’ Associations are taking their own measures: they are launching an online marketplace for animal feed. Because the grass in the meadows has withered away in many places, Swiss farmers ...

So far, the summer of 2026 has been at least as hot as the record-breaking summer of 2003. The Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, MeteoSwiss, said in response to an enquiry that at some stations the number of hot days has already exceeded...

Journeys on Swiss public transport are set to become more expensive from December. However, fare increases – particularly for a general subscription (GA) which enables unlimited travel – will be less steep than announced in March by the industry ...

Following a cyberattack on the SharePoint servers operated by the Federal Office of Information Technology, Systems and Telecommunication (FOITT), access via the internet has been blocked for people outside the federal administration. Around 200 acco...

The Swiss plum harvest has begun – a week earlier than usual. Thanks to plenty of sunshine, fruit growers are expecting high-quality fruit and a yield of around 3,000 tonnes. The warm temperatures led to an early start to the harvest in all Swiss g...

The Swiss hotel industry once again welcomed fewer guests in June. The reason remained falling demand from abroad. If the previous year’s record figure is to be matched, a strong second half of the year is now required. With 4.1 million overnight s...

Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) has had a mixed first half of 2026. Turnover rose by 3.2% to CHF2.77 billion ($3.42 billion). By contrast, the Lufthansa subsidiary’s operating profit fell by 3.2% to CHF189.3 million. SWISS felt the impact of ...

At least 14,000 households in Geneva were affected by a power cut on Monday evening. The power cut, which began shortly before 8pm, was restored within less than an hour for 10,000 of these households, while 4,500 households had to wait just over two...

The mystery surrounding sick cows in Switzerland has been solved: the Institute of Virology and Immunology has discovered a new orthobunyavirus of the Simbu serogroup in samples taken from sick cattle. The institute confirmed this to the Swiss News A...

Swiss bank UBS has been ordered to pay fines totalling $145 million (CHF117 million) in the US for inadequate anti-money laundering controls. The major bank has been explicitly described as a repeat offender. On Monday, the US money laundering regula...

A Swiss national and a Central African soldier were killed on Thursday in an attack north of Bangui – the capital of the Central African Republic. According to military sources, the attackers were “as yet unidentified armed bandits”. The Swiss ...

Despite global uncertainties, the outlook for the Swiss labour market is improving. This is according to the employment indicator calculated by the KOF Institute, the economic research centre at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich. T...