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...

Vontobel Bank is turning its back on Zurich after more than 100 years. But the city does not expect an exodus of financial companies. A spokesperson for the Zurich city finance department, told Keystone-SDA regretted the bank leaving for canton Zug. ...

Canton Zurich's parliament has voted in favour of a ban on religious head coverings for female pupils and teachers in schools. Lawmakers approved a motion from the Swiss People's Party by 87 votes to 82, with six abstentions. A new law is now set to ...

A mountaineer fell to his death on the iconic Swiss mountain the Matterhorn whilst climbing via the Lion Ridge. Efforts to formally identify the mountaineer, who died on Sunday, are underway. The incident occurred on Sunday at around 7am, the Valais ...

Swiss watchmaking group Swatch has won its long-running legal battle in London against Samsung over counterfeit digital watch dials. The South Korean tech giant will have to pay the Biel-based watchmaker $11.6 million. Swatch had claimed $170 million...

Police have arrested a 43-year-old Swiss man in connection with a fatal shooting at a rave party at the weekend. Police are working on the assumption that the attack on Saturday night in Aarau was the act of a lone perpetrator. + Regulating firearms ...

In response to a shortage of protein-rich fodder, Switzerland has authorised temporary withdrawals from its compulsory reserves. Up to 20% of stocks may be used from September 1. Until the end of February 2027, it will therefore be possible to withdr...

Following a positive 2025, Swiss banks are expected to continue to grow in 2026, despite a challenging business and geopolitical environment and zero interest rates. This is the forecast of the Swiss Bankers Association (SBA), which says that Switzer...

Eight out of ten Swiss construction sites fail to adopt regular heatwave breaks when temperatures reach 33°C, according to trade union Unia. In July, Unia surveyed 984 construction workers from all regions of Switzerland on the implementation of hea...

Credit card giants Visa and Mastercard are using the Swiss Payinit platform to simplify international money transfers for Swiss bank customers. Both groups are collaborating with Payinit, the Swiss joint venture between Viseca and Cornèr Bank. Payin...

The trial of a 59-year-old man accused of being the logistical and financial mastermind of the ‘Ndrangheta in Switzerland begins today at the Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona. The man is alleged to have transported money to Italy, acted as an i...

Nine Swiss political parties have reported total income of CHF24.6 million for 2025, which is less than in the previous year. The Socialist Democratic Party accounted for the largest share of this income. Reporting is governed by regulations on trans...

Switzerland’s oldest cable car, which links Verbier to Savoleyres in canton Valais, has made its final journey after 56 years of service and having carried 16 million passengers. Opened in 1970 and prized for its distinctive vintage style, the cabl...

The gender pay gap in Switzerland narrowed to 15.7% in 2024, compared with 16.2% two years earlier. Only part of this gap can be explained by structural factors such as level of education or position within the organisation. This downward trend can b...

Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni expressed condolences to the family of an Italian woman killed in a shooting in Switzerland at the weekend. Italy is following the Swiss investigation closely, Meloni added on the social media platform X. “We a...

A 69-year-old hiker died after falling on Saturday in the Grandvillard area of the Fribourg Pre-Alps, in western Switzerland. Emergency services were called to the scene but could only confirm that he had died. The man fell around 200 metres in the P...

The person who died in the shooting at the Aarau rave in the early hours of Sunday morning was a 22-year-old woman. She died at the scene from her injuries, police spokesperson Pascal Wenzel told reporters. Four young men and another woman were also ...

Police in Basel stopped an unauthorised pro-Palestinian demonstration from taking place on Saturday, encircling around 300 people who had gathered at Theaterplatz. Officers carried out a number of identity checks in the area. At around 2pm, between 2...

A large majority of people in Switzerland are calling for better protection against heatwaves. A survey by 20 Minuten and Tamedia, published on Sunday, found broad support for suspending work on building sites when temperatures reach 33°C and for in...

One person was killed in a shooting at a rave in Aarau, in the Swiss canton of Aargau, on Saturday night, according to initial police findings. Five others were injured, some of them seriously, police said on Sunday morning. Police also said in a pos...

One person has been remanded in custody after four people died in a house fire in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. Criminal proceedings have been opened against the individual on multiple counts of negligent homicide and causing bodily harm through n...

With just over half the average rainfall, the period from April to July was the hottest and driest on record in Switzerland since records began in 1901. MeteoSwiss reported this on Thursday in collaboration with the environment ministry and the Swiss...

Thomas Buberl, chief executive of the French insurer Axa, has stepped down from the board of trustees of the World Economic Forum (WEF). He has not appeared on the WEF website's list of board members for the past few days. The Neue Zürcher Zeitung (...

More than 90% of Switzerland’s largest listed companies have had all or part of their sustainability reports for the 2025 financial year audited by an external body, according to a recent report by consultancy firm IRF. The number of companies whos...

The flash flood in the Himalayas has caused widespread distress among Nepalese and Tibetan communities in Switzerland, representatives of the two communities told the Keystone-SDA news agency on Friday. The images of the devastating flash flood offer...

Swiss historian Sacha Zala is the new president of the International Council of Historical Sciences (CISH). The professor of history and director of the Dodis research centre was elected at the congress marking the 100th anniversary of the CISH. Zala...