The music festival on Bern’s “local mountain” has put a heat protection plan in place due to the forecasted high temperatures. Among other measures, this means more water, new misters, and free sun cream. Around 150 free drinking water points w...

Janine Bunte, the director of the Swiss Youth Hostels network, says local authorities “make a living from tourism, yet complain about the large numbers of visitors”. For her, a more direct debate is needed. Many local authorities have neglected t...

A French minister has expressed regret about how authorities in Switzerland and Geneva handled the run-up to the recent G7 summit in Evian (France). Rather than using the event to raise Geneva’s profile, “there was a lack of openness from the out...

Martin Pfister is heading to Kansas City for this weekend’s World Cup quarter-final between Switzerland and Argentina. In a video posted to social media platform X on Saturday, the sports minister is seen standing in front of an aeroplane, explaini...

The man from canton Valais, who won silver in the downhill race at the Sapporo Winter Olympics in 1972, had been battling illness for two years. Ultimately the illness proved stronger than the thrill-seeking skier who loved to brave the planet’s st...