The heatwaves and prolonged drought in Switzerland this summer are having a profound impact on the agricultural sector. With harvests decimated and production costs soaring due to the need for supplementary irrigation, the economic consequences are n...

The “temporary containment measures” put in place following the anti-G7 demonstration on June 14 in Geneva are deemed lawful, at least until the area was completely sealed off at 9.29pm. These are the conclusions reached by the Cantonal Departmen...

Switzerland's sole refinery in Cressier is no longer operational due to technical problems. But Bern insists that the supply of petroleum products in Switzerland remains secure. To cope with any temporary difficulties, it will be possible to draw on ...

Swiss suppliers to the automotive sector are expected, for the time being, to escape the worst of the major restructuring announced by the German giant Volkswagen. The Bern-based manufacturer Feintool, however, could be more exposed than other compan...

In 2025, 274 deaths of infants under one year of age and 363 stillbirths were recorded in Switzerland. Both infant mortality and stillbirths rose compared with the previous year. According to a survey published on Friday by the Federal Statistical Of...

The Federal Supreme Court has dismissed a complaint against Swiss public broadcaster SRF coverage of Gaza war protests at universities in 2024. In December 2024, the Independent Complaints Authority for Radio and Television (UBI) found that the princ...

A Swiss Senate committee has recommended that the parliamentary chamber votes in favour of a new treaty with the European Union. A clear majority of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee supported the content of the new Bilateral Agreements III, which...

More data has been seized from another property connected to a former Swiss local politician accused of committing a string of serious sexual offences against women and children. The public prosecutor’s office in the northern Swiss town of Baden, c...

A Swiss research project to test soil quality with buried underpants has been awarded an Ig Nobel Prize for entertaining, yet serious, science. More than a thousand people from all over Switzerland took part in the ‘Underpants as Evidence’ projec...

A severe storm on August 28 resulted in Swiss International Air Lines cancelling 125 flights. This affected a total of 15,572 passengers, as a SWISS spokesperson told the AWP news agency. “This figure includes not only flights that were cancelled o...

A Swiss regional court has acquitted all five defendants of manslaughter in connection with a fatal rockslide in Bondo in 2017. Parliamentarian Anna Giacometti was one of the five cleared of all charges. + Alpine debris flows becoming more intense an...

Swiss banks are recruiting fewer staff, according to analysis of job vacancies published on the websites of the country’s ten leading banks. Overall, in August, the number of job adverts fell by 10% (to 524) compared with July, according to a surve...

Attempts by the Swiss army to order Patriot air missile systems via Germany have broken down, according to research by Swiss public broadcaster SRF. The proposed German deal was set up to mitigate mounting delays and costs of ordering the systems dir...

This summer’s heatwave led to the worst potato harvest in Switzerland since records began. To make up for this, 130,000 tonnes of potatoes had to be imported. This year, Swiss farmers harvested just 333,000 tonnes of potatoes, the industry umbrella...

A public-sector union is launching a petition to halt the outsourcing of jobs abroad by Swiss Post and Swisscom. The campaign, launched by the union Transfair, is urging the Swiss government and parliament to take action to put a stop to what it cons...

On Thursday in Fribourg, France and Switzerland celebrated the inclusion of the 1516 "Eternal Peace" treaty in UNESCO’s international Memory of the World Register. The official ceremony took place in the presence of the President of the Swiss Confe...

The damage caused in Switzerland by a storm at the end of August is likely to prove very costly. According to initial estimates by insurers, it will be at least in the three-digit million range, a survey carried out by the AWP news agency shows. The ...

Geneva Airport, the operator of the international airfield at Cointrin, generates CHF3.3 billion ($4.08 billion) in added value and provides nearly 22,000 jobs, a new study shows. The airport's chief executive intends to continue strengthening air co...

The Swiss economy grew by 1.5% in the second quarter of the year, compared with the previous quarter, according to the second estimate published on Thursday by the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO). This figure, adjusted for sporting even...

For the first time in their history, the Ig Nobel Prizes are being awarded outside the United States. On Thursday evening, Zurich’s Kongresshaus will be the venue for one of the world’s most unusual scientific events. The awards recognise researc...

UBS is coming under renewed United States pressure over Credit Suisse’s handling of Nazi-linked accounts. The Senate Judiciary Committee is demanding new responses from the Swiss lender’s management to dozens of questions as part of its investiga...

The Swiss food group Nestlé is investing a total of CHF310 million ($380 million) in its nutrition and health business in Brazil by 2028. Part of this investment involves the construction of a new baby-food factory. Around CHF94 million are being in...

Swiss inflation accelerated far more than analysts anticipated to the fastest pace since September 2024, suggesting a weaker franc is feeding through to the economy. Consumer prices rose 0.8% in August from a year earlier, up from 0.4% in July, the F...

Switzerland's rehabilitation clinics continue to ensure that patients affected by the tragedy in Crans-Montana can regain “as independent a life as possible”, doctors said. At a round-table discussion held on Wednesday in Sion, specialists and re...

Former defence minister Viola Amherd will attend the funeral of King Harald V of Norway as Switzerland’s official representative. The ceremony will take place on September 9 in Oslo, with royal families and guests from Switzerland and abroad expect...

Swiss professional paraglider Patrick von Känel has achieved an unprecedented feat. He flew in a slalom pattern around the piers of the Landwasser Viaduct in Filisur in canton Graubünden while a Rhaetian Railway train was crossing the bridge. To ca...

The pharmaceutical company Novartis is cutting up to 130 jobs in Basel by the end of 2027. The reason, the company announced on Wednesday, is that it is discontinuing the small-scale production of biologics in the Kleinbasel district. In the future, ...

The Swiss government intends to provide more support to people with rare diseases through two new laws. As a first step, the government plans to establish the legal framework enabling it to provide financial support for specialised care structures an...

Sheep’s wool instead of plastic? An experiment on a glacier in canton Vaud in western Switzerland shows that this natural material slows down ice melt just as effectively as conventional protective tarpaulins. For the "Keep it Wool" experiment, two...

The Swiss government has launched the public consultation on the agricultural policy from 2030 onwards. Key objectives for the policy include greater food security and freedom for farmers. On Wednesday, the federal government launched a consultation ...