A popular initiative by Switzerland’s Green Party to make solar panels mandatory on most rooftops has gathered more than ...

Switzerland’s Protestant church is to commission an independent inquiry into sexual and spiritual abuse within its ranks. On Monday the parliament of the Evangelical Reformed Church of Switzerland vot ...

Bern’s emergency shelters are under strain—and most of those using them are not Swiss.A new regulation introduced in October 2025 by the canton of Bern restricts access to emergency accommodation to p ...

Switzerland’s road deaths have risen by a third over the past five years, even as fatalities have fallen across much of Europe. The country’s accident-prevention bureau (BPA) on Tuesday lamented the t ...

The inimitable French auteur François Ozon has done it again, with his usual elegance and discretion, as with his other superbly varied films such a ...

With winter setting in, Switzerland’s Gotthard Pass and the hiking and cycling trail through the Schöllenen Gorge will shut for safety reasons. The closures, announced by the Federal Roads Office (FED ...

Nearly half of Switzerland’s population now counts as “news-deprived”—people who rarely consume journalistic media. According ...

The Swiss, it seems, live up to their reputation for cleanliness and comfort. A new survey by the Sotomo research institute ...

This week, five of the seven of the pro-Palestinian activists accused of taking part in an unauthorised demonstration after ...

Disinformation and conspiracy theories, amplified by social media, are distorting minds at scale. At the same time, the rise of news deprivation—a world in which citizens are either cut off from ...

Retail workers in Switzerland are pushing back against plans to allow stores to open on up to 12 Sundays a year, up from the current four. A petition opposing the proposal was submitted to the Federal ...