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

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

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

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

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

Valais is bracing for lean years, with the cantonal government looking to cut CHF 180 million from its budget by 2030

Families should prepare for heavy disruption in Haute-Savoie schools today, as the nationwide French strike hits the department

The Lake Geneva region has overtaken Zurich as Switzerland's top economic hub, according to new federal figures

Justice Minister Beat Jans has called on Swiss schools to confront the rise of the online "manosphere" — the digital ecosystem spreading misogynistic ideas to young men

Switzerland's Federal Office of Public Health is scaling back prevention work after being told to save CHF 11 million a year

SWISS airlines has warned that soaring fuel costs are eating into profits, even as revenues climb

Swiss workers can expect average nominal wage rises of just 1% next year, according to UBS economists surveying 400 companies

Lausanne's city centre is bracing for major traffic disruption on Thursday evening as thousands prepare to march against proposed austerity measures

Drivers on Lausanne's main motorway are facing nights of closures this week between Écublens and the Maladière junction

Swiss travellers face much higher fares on Ryanair flights from next year, with the airline's chief executive warning of double-digit percentage hikes across Europe

A cellar fire in Geneva's Servette district forced the evacuation of a Coop supermarket and halted trams at rush hour last night

Burglars in Geneva are increasingly targeting apartment cellars, with break-ins jumping 65 percent in a single year

Residents are leaving Switzerland's most expensive cities in record numbers, swapping Geneva, Zurich and Basel for cheaper neighbouring cantons

Lake Geneva and Lake Annecy all face a small but real tsunami risk — and human activity is making it worse

Jacques Moretti faces fresh questioning today, ten months into the Valais probe over the Crans-Montana fire that killed 41

Migros is pushing to merge its ten regional cooperatives and centralise its headquarters in Zurich — a restructuring that could cost thousands of administrative jobs

The personal details of 38,000 Vaud pupils and 3,500 teachers have been copied from a school support platform — and the canton suspects a pupil was behind the attack

Drivers are paying more at the pump as a global refining crisis drives up fuel prices

The Tilia Tower, Vaud's tallest residential building at 85 metres, has officially opened in Prilly's Malley district

SBB has updated its mobile app with four new features aimed at daily commuters and expat travellers

The Alix Perroud Foundation hosted a benefit evening at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne last night, in memory of a young woman who died in the Crans-Montana fire

Christine Lagarde will leave the European Central Bank in early February next year, nine months before her mandate ends, the ECB announced on yesterday

UBS chief Sergio Ermotti has repeated his warning that the bank could leave Switzerland, telling Bloomberg that a Swiss passport is no longer enough to keep the bank here

Switzerland reopened its diplomatic office in Pyongyang yesterday — the first visit by a Federal Councillor to North Korea in more than twenty years

Geneva's financial sector is warning that losing UBS would be bad for Switzerland, even as its banks post strong growth driven by Middle Eastern fortunes

Jessica Moretti will no longer face her husband in court next week

Shopkeepers in Annemasse are counting on the extended tram line to win back the Geneva customers they say have deserted the town centre

The UDC is putting its eight candidates to succeed Guy Parmelin through a job-interview-style screening

Swisscom and Sunrise have both scored "exceptional" in a yearly internet quality test, beating all their German and Austrian competitors

Construction of the A412 motorway between Machilly and Thonon in Haute-Savoie can continue, after a court ruling yesterday

Around a hundred refugees in Vaud have been sleeping in civil-defence bunkers for months, as the cantonal migrant service runs out of beds

Lausanne's municipal police have adopted a first set of concrete reforms, after years of crises with city elected officials

Switzerland's rail operator SBB has turned away another late German train, this time rerouting a Stuttgart–Zurich intercity to Schaffhausen because it was running thirteen minutes behind schedule

Two years after Switzerland launched its healthcare cost roundtable, the latest package of six new measures still comes without any savings figure attached

Swiss hay prices have jumped nearly 80% this autumn, forcing farmers to tap into winter reserves and bring their cattle in early

Lausanne is retiring its Bô Noël Christmas market after this year's edition, replacing it from 2027 with a new concept called Lausanne Magic Winter

The City of Geneva has made its free grocery delivery service for seniors permanent after a successful pilot

Nearly 40% of Switzerland's flu vaccine doses are facing delivery delays heading into winter, raising concerns just as the first cases appear

Rain and wind did little to dampen the 33rd Lausanne Marathon, which drew more than 15,500 registered runners yesterday

More than 400,000 people took to the streets across France on Saturday to protest against the rising cost of living and cuts to public services

Swiss pension funds are investing more than ever in infrastructure, but most of the money is flowing abroad

Migros is preparing the biggest restructuring in its history, with up to 3,000 administrative jobs reported to be on the line

A confidential federal report has revealed that Switzerland's planned hydropower expansion will deliver far less electricity than voters were promised

Burglaries are surging across French-speaking Switzerland, with Geneva the hardest hit canton in the country

Three men are in a critical condition in hospital after a wrong-way crash this morning on the A40 motorway at Saint-Julien-en-Genevois

Lausanne's new tram is already drawing complaints — before it even enters service

Swiss companies will pay most for AI expertise next year, according to a new salary guide from recruiter Robert Half

A magnitude 3.8 earthquake has struck near the Diablerets in Vaud this morning, felt across a wide area of the Alps

Winter has arrived in the Alps

Switzerland is short of 130,000 tonnes of potatoes after the worst harvest on record, and shoppers can expect higher prices

Switzerland is bringing back double surnames for married couples from 1 January next year

Switzerland reverts to winter time on Sunday morning, with clocks going back one hour at 3am

The Switzerland-EU package has cleared another hurdle today

Swiss exports grew 2.6% in the third quarter to just under CHF 75 billion, confirming the recovery that began the previous quarter, according to figures released by the federal customs office on Tuesday

Swiss travellers heading into major French cities face a second night of targeted curfews after Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu extended Monday's restrictions, saying they had contributed to a calmer first night

Jean-Claude Savoy, the former president of Chermignon in Valais, appeared again yesterday before prosecutors investigating the Constellation bar fire in Crans-Montana

Swiss citizens will be able to apply for a new biometric identity card from 2 November, citing Monday's announcement from the Federal Police

Switzerland is heading for its first real taste of winter, with a cold front bringing rain, wind and a sharp drop in temperatures

Winter tyres are not legally required in Switzerland, but drivers can still be found negligent if their car is not fit for the road

Drivers along Lake Geneva face major disruption on Sunday as the Lausanne Marathon shuts cantonal roads between Ouchy and Vevey from early morning to late afternoon

Mayors across Haute-Savoie led public gatherings today in response to Saturday's protest violence that left eleven Annemasse shops looted

The Swiss Touring Club is warning drivers to prepare now for autumn hazards, as shorter days and a low sun make the roads more dangerous

Around 400 water experts from across Europe have gathered in Zurich this week as drought and pollution squeeze Switzerland's drinking supply

Switzerland has slipped to third place in the IMD's annual global competitiveness ranking, and the Lausanne-based business school's president is warning against complacency

Switzerland is facing a serious doctor shortage, yet universities are still turning away hundreds of medical students each year

A magnitude-four earthquake has shaken the canton of Glarus, with the tremor felt right across Switzerland

The race to replace Guy Parmelin in the Federal Council is already dividing Switzerland's largest party

Swiss President Guy Parmelin has signed a free trade agreement with Vietnam in Hanoi, alongside his EFTA counterparts from Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein