Several dozen people gathered on Saturday morning at 10am near the Constellation bar in the Swiss town of Crans‑Montana to honour those who died or were injured in the New Year’s Eve fire. The gathering was organised by relatives of the victims. ...

In the refugee training centre in Ringgenberg in western Switzerland, 32 people with asylum or refugee status are currently training to work in nursing care. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The centre has been operated by...

A proposal to effectively ban the burkini in Geneva’s public pools was blocked on Friday after the cantonal government ruled it unlawful. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox In Geneva, the right‑wing majority in the canto...

In the Swiss mountain town of Davos, works by Pablo Picasso will be shown alongside pieces by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner for the first time. The director of the Kirchner Museum says it is one of the institution’s most ambitious exhibitions to date. + Ge...

French prosecutors have launched five investigations, including into Swiss food giant Nestlé, after batches of infant milk were found to contain cereulide, a toxin produced by the bacterium Bacillus cereus. + Get the most important news from Switzer...

Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis says he is “cautiously optimistic” ahead of a new round of talks on the war in Ukraine taking place in Geneva. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Speaking to Swiss public television ...

The Pride Festival in Zurich is to be downsized this year and will now charge admission. This is intended to secure funding after sponsors pulled out. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox "After thorough analysis, we have decid...

The bar presidents of cantons Valais, Vaud and Geneva on Friday condemned the attacks on the lawyers of Jacques and Jessica Moretti, owners of the "Le Constellation" in Crans-Montana, where 41 people died in a fire on New Year's Eve. +Get the most im...

Passengers of selected airlines can now check in automatically at EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse. Other airlines are to follow as soon as possible, the airport said on Friday. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The offer initiall...

The next round of negotiations between Moscow, Kyiv and Washington to try to find a diplomatic solution to the war in Ukraine will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday in Geneva, the Kremlin announced on Friday. +Get the most important news from Switzerl...

The fire disaster in Crans-Montana has attracted a great deal of international attention but has so far had little impact on Swiss tourism. According to several tourism organisations, bookings, frequencies and sales have remained stable. +Get the mos...

This year in the disaster-stricken Lötschental, the traditional Tschäggättä procession did not start in the Swiss village of Blatten, but in Wiler. Despite a lingering sense of grief, the people of the valley are doing their utmost to keep the cu...

Flower and erotic shops do good business on Valentine's Day. Both sectors record higher sales around February 14 than on most other days of the year. Swiss florists are even expecting a record Valentine's Day. +Get the most important news from Switze...

In the case of the fire disaster in Crans-Montana, two Valais lawyers have filed a criminal complaint against the mayor of the village, Nicolas Féraud. The two lawyers are representing a seriously injured victim of the fire and his parents. +Get the...

Several major programmes of the Swiss defence ministry, notably Air2030, are in the red and are experiencing delays. They are not progressing satisfactorily, the ministry said on Thursday. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox "...

The European launcher Ariane 6 has been launched into space for the first time with four boosters. The rocket lifted off from the European space centre in Kourou in French Guiana on Thursday. Ariane 6 is also flying thanks to Switzerland. +Get the mo...

The large-scale vaccination campaign against Covid-19 started in Switzerland five years ago. Several million people were injected with one of the vaccines from December 2020. So far, the government has made payments in two cases following vaccination...

A rocky planet has been discovered in the "wrong" place by the Swiss space telescope CHEOPS. The find forces scientists to rethink current theories on the formation of planetary systems. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Sc...

Three drugs traffickers have been handed 15 year jail terms after shipping a 500kg cocaine haul through Nespresso facilities in Switzerland. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The Criminal Court of Basel-Country handed out t...

A Swiss avalanche has buried a road near to Goppenstein in canton Valais shortly cutting off traffic to the Lötschental region. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Reports of the avalanche at the Rotloiwi gallery were receiv...

An anti-drone defence system ordered by the Swiss defence ministry contains key components from an Israeli arms company, research by Swiss public broadcaster SRF has discovered. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox A CHF3.5 mi...

The International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH) in Geneva will be looking at the excesses of authoritarianism on the rise around the world. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Several premieres are expected ...

A Swiss zoo has defended itself against “sweeping statements” from an animal rights group following the birth of a chimpanzee in captivity. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The German group Peta called on the Walter Zo...

Air Canada has lost a court appeal against a CHF144,000 fine for transporting nine passengers to Zurich without valid Swiss entry documents. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Air Canada has been sanctioned several times by ...

Sales in the Swiss home electronics sector rose slightly in 2025 following two years of decline. Market researchers expect the recovery to continue throughout 2026. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Swiss home electronics r...

Relatives of the victims of a fatal Swiss bar fire vented their anger at the married owners of Le Constellation as they arrived to give evidence to prosecutors at a hearing into the tragedy. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbo...

During a visit to Geneva, the United States ambassador to the United Nations in New York, has spoken of a need to "rexamine" the UN's presence in the "most expensive cities". + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Ambassador Mik...

A nine-year Italian prison sentence handed out to Swiss industrialist Stephan Schmidheiney, relating to asbestos deaths, has been quashed because the 2025 verdict was not translated into German. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your ...

The biggest acquisition in Swisscom's history is having an impact on the company's results. Profits at the Swiss telecoms firm plummeted due to the costs of integrating the acquired Vodafone Italia. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in y...

Thousands of masked and costumed people have thronged the streets of Lucerne for the launch of the Swiss city's carnival. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The so-called 'Dirty Thursday' was launched at 5am with traditional...