SIX, the operator of the main Swiss stock exchange, will close the year CHF300 million in the red. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The main reason for this is the investment in the financial services provider Worldline. Ac...

The heads of six large Swiss companies took part in trade talks with United States President Donald Trump in Washington. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The business leaders reaffirmed their conviction that a bilateral tra...

In December, PostBus Switzerland will be trialling a new public transport service with self-driving cars around Altstätten in canton St Gallen. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The trial operation will be expanded later. P...

The Swiss foreign office will immediately allocate CHF10 million to humanitarian aid in Gaza. It is releasing a further CHF10 million to support the Palestinian Authority's reforms and promote inter-religious exchanges. +Get the most important news f...

The Swiss government wants cantons to continue to have the last say in naturalisation procedures. On Wednesday, it reiterated its rejection of the so-called "democracy initiative". +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox At the sa...

A new silverback gorilla named Yeba has moved into Basel Zoo. The integration with the existing gorilla group in the ape house has so far been successful, the zoo announced. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The 13-year-old ...

Switzerland will vote on four popular initiatives on March 8, including proposals on individual taxation and on financing the national broadcaster SRG. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The government has decided to put all ...

Trade barriers and anaemic inflation in Switzerland will weigh heavily on wage negotiations for 2026, UBS bank warned in its annual survey of employers. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Nominal wage increases are likely to ...

The Swiss economy is once again looking to the future with optimism despite the tariffs imposed by United States President Donald Trump. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The business situation improved markedly in October, ...

An alpine bat has been seen in the Swiss city of Basel for the first time. This discovery means that canton Basel-City now has 23 of the 30 bat species found in Switzerland. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The animal was f...

The hacker group Akira is threatening to publish military data belonging to a United States subsidiary of Swiss defence contractor RUAG. This has been revealed by research conducted by Swiss public broadcaster SRF Investigativ. +Get the most importan...

Bad for trees, but good for woodpeckers: a new Swiss study shows that a bark beetle infestation increases the number of woodpeckers. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Even years after a forest was infested by the pest, the w...

Swiss chocolate maker Barry Callebaut saw its profits increase in the 2024/25 financial year (to the end of August), despite a selling less chocolate. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Revenues rose by 42.4% to CHF14.79 bill...

The terrorist financing trial of cement maker Lafarge, which is a subsidiary of the Swiss company Holcim, has begun in Paris. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The first hearing focused on legal issues, in this case priority...

United States President Donald Trump has met with high-ranking representatives of Switzerland to discuss trade issues. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Trump announced the talks on his Truth Social platform. US trade repres...

The government of Swiss canton Glarus has spoken out in favour of the EU treaties in principle, but only if the Landsgemeinde, an open-air assembly, is not affected. Otherwise, it is calling on the government to take countermeasures. +Get the most im...

The Swiss Army has lost more than 30 professional military pilots in the past five years. In order to remain attractive, it plans to bring its working conditions into line with those in the private sector. +Get the most important news from Switzerlan...

The city of Fribourg has inaugurated Barbe Schinner Square. In doing so, it is honouring the memory of a woman renowned for her humanitarian commitment and devotion to those wounded in war. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox ...

The initiative “No to ten million Switzerland”, also known as the sustainability initiative, should be submitted to the electorate without a counter-proposal, says the responsible committee of the Senate. +Get the most important news from Switzer...

Switzerland holds the European record for road deaths: the number of fatalities on Swiss roads has risen by 34% over the past five years, to 250 last year alone. In contrast, this figure has fallen in most European countries. +Get the most important ...

The climate in Switzerland is becoming hotter, drier and more unpredictable. These are the findings of new Swiss climate scenarios. Temperatures in Switzerland could rise even more than predicted, according to a report published on Tuesday. +Get the ...

Eleven dogs have died in a kennel in the district of Uster in canton Zurich. The cause of death is unclear, but the police suspect poisoning. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The police were called out after a dog owner rep...

Swiss Defence Minister Martin Pfister will give a public lecture at the University of Geneva on Wednesday on the new package of bilateral agreements between Switzerland and the European Union. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inb...

The majority of the Swiss population live in rented flats, most of which have four to 4.5 rooms and between 71 and 110 m2 of living space, according to a representative Comparis survey. Level of education and income influence the type of accommodatio...

There has been an outbreak of the infectious disease diphtheria at the federal asylum centre in Embrach, canton Zurich. One person is in hospital. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox All contact people of the infected resident...

The Protestant Reformed Church of Switzerland is commissioning a scientific study to investigate sexual and spiritual abuse in the church. On Monday, the church parliament instructed the church council to commission such a study. + Get the most impor...

A Swiss man in his 80s has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison in South Korea for drug smuggling. The man was accused of having brought close to three kilogrammes of methamphetamine to Jeju Island. + Get the most important news from Sw...

The federal government intends to strengthen measures against antibiotic resistance and support hospitals in setting up appropriate programmes. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The director of the Federal Office of Public ...

The Swiss city of Zurich is implementing a net-zero neighbourhood in the Binz and Alt-Wiedikon area. Over the next six years, residents, businesses and schools will be testing new approaches to climate protection and sustainability. + Get the most im...

Construction workers' strikes took place in French-speaking Switzerland on Monday, after the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino and Bern in recent weeks. According to the unions Syna and Unia, close to 7,000 people demonstrated in Geneva, Lausanne, Fr...