Winter is making itself felt in the Alps, forcing the early closure of major mountain roads. The Swiss Touring Club (TCS) reports on its traffic information portal that the Gotthard and San Bernardino passes are already closed to traffic. Rainfall an...

The landscape around Welschenrohr in the Swiss canton of Solothurn generally offers suitable living conditions for bison. This is the conclusion reached by the Wisent Thal association in a report. The trial period involving animals in an enclosure la...

Sunrise is cutting 358 jobs as part of a reorganisation of its business model. The second-largest Swiss telecoms group had originally considered cutting up to 450 jobs. Sunrise announced on Friday that, thanks to proposals from the employee represent...

Seven men and one woman have put themselves forward as candidates to replace Guy Parmelin in the governing Federal Council. The Swiss People's Party's nomination committee announced the candidates after the deadline had passed at noon on Friday. Two ...

The patient is the wife of a Swiss employee at the embassy in Abuja, Nigeria. The Swiss foreign ministry has confirmed that a Swiss woman has contracted Ebola. Reports to this effect by the Reuters news agency were accurate. The patient is the wife o...