A 27-year-old German has drowned in Lake Cauma in Graubünden, eastern Switzerland, a few days after a British tourist died in the same lake. The German man was trying to swim to a small island to help a friend when he himself got into difficulty. De...

Canton Bern is amending its Data Protection Act, while canton Basel City is implementing its package of wage measures. These and other changes are coming into force in Switzerland on September 1. DATA PROTECTION: In canton Bern, the revised cantonal ...

The organiser of the rave party in Aarau, northern Switzerland, where one person was fatally shot and five people injured has defended the security plan for the venue in an interview. Olivier Grein, head of Urban Agency Events, told the Neue Zürcher...

UBS bank notched up an interim victory in its multi-year struggle against Switzerland’s push to make it hold billions of extra dollars in capital. The Zurich-based bank should be able to use convertible debt, known as AT1s, for as much as 50% of th...

Following a successful consultation process, the Swiss air traffic control company Skyguide now expects a total of 50 redundancies as part of its restructuring programme. A first wave of 14 redundancies is planned, followed by a second wave of around...