Bitesize News

  • Possible charges for foreign retailers

    Foreign online retailers would have to pay into Switzerland's recycling system under a motion the Federal Council now backs

  • Swiss detained at US immigration

    A 23-year-old Swiss woman has been in US immigration detention since Friday, after ICE agents stopped her at Dallas airport on her way to a family gathering

  • No more paper recycling at SBB stations

    Switzerland's railway network is pulling paper recycling compartments out of station bins, after paper collection at its sorting stations crashed by more than 96% between 2015 and 2025

  • Geneva unemployment rises

    Geneva remains Switzerland's unemployment hotspot, with the rate climbing to 5.3% in figures released today by the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs

  • Hottest summer ever claims record victims

    Switzerland's hottest summer on record killed around 1,257 people between May and August, according to new estimates from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute

  • Another medical bill for Crans Montana

    Switzerland will foot the roughly CHF 1.5 million medical bill for the twelve Italian victims hospitalised after the Constellation hotel fire in Crans-Montana

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  • Swiss News Pod

    The latest breaking stories from Switzerland

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    Big Screen, Small Screen - 4 November 2026

    Hannah Clarkson on what's hot on the big screen and the small screen this week.

  • Breakfast Show

    GAOS new production of Hansel and Gretel

    Theatre de Marens, Nyon

  • Kids in Mind

    Technology in Education. 1

    The good and bad points

  • Dig It!

    Pépinières Baudat's new Parc de Gilly

    A new public nursery park opens near Rolle

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Today's Weather

  • Geneva

    Heavy Rain

    High: 12°C | Low: 5°C

  • Lausanne

    Sunny intervals

    High: 8°C | Low: 4°C

  • Verbier

    Heavy Rain

    High: 5°C | Low: 2°C

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    Light rain

    High: 7°C | Low: 2°C

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    10:00pm - 6:00am

    Overnight programming from the BBC in case you can't sleep.

  • BBC Weekend

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