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Vaud's Glacier 3000 has broken its all-time attendance record before its financial year even closes, with roughly 265,000 visitors expected — up two-thirds in a decade

Only 42% of Swiss small and medium-sized businesses feel adequately protected against cyberattacks, down from 55% a year earlier, according to the 2025 SME Cybersecurity study

Green Party president Lisa Mazzone has accused the Federal Council of doing nothing on climate after Switzerland's hottest summer on record

Vaud has unveiled a 2027 budget with a deficit of CHF 356 million, despite CHF 65 million in fresh savings

Geneva and Vaud will host Switzerland's first large-scale European earthquake exercise from 6 to 9 October

Swiss operator Salt has confirmed hackers stole personal data belonging to its mobile customers

A Vaud recycling firm has switched on an artificial intelligence sorting line at its plant near Yverdon, aiming to close Switzerland's poor plastics recycling record

La Poste chief Christian Levrat warns Switzerland's postal service could disappear within a decade without major changes

The gap between Swiss and eurozone interest rates has hit a record 2.5 percentage points, after the European Central Bank raised its benchmark to 2.5% at the end of last week while the Swiss National Bank sits at zero

Geneva's UN trade agency plans to cut 70 of its 500 staff, as funding pressure mounts

Geneva heads to the polls on 27 September to decide whether it should be easier for tenants to buy the flat they rent

MétéoSuisse has confirmed that summer 2026 was the hottest ever recorded in Switzerland

The Vaud town of Morges is looking back at the February 1988 night that launched Céline Dion's international career

Zurich has topped Europe's biggest station ranking for the fifth year in a row

Switzerland is heading for another polarising ballot on 27 September

Fewer people in Switzerland want to fly to the United States

Finding a home in Switzerland has just become harder still

Swiss Post will eliminate up to 110 positions in 2027, blaming shrinking letter volumes and fewer over-the-counter transactions

The heatwave that has gripped Switzerland since May finally breaks tomorrow

Drivers in western Vaud face four nights of disruption on the A1 next week.

Swiss 15-year-olds still rank among the world's best in maths and science, but their performance in reading and maths is sliding

Swiss households will pay a little less for electricity next year

Switzerland is dipping into its emergency fuel reserves for the first time this year to keep petrol and diesel flowing

A 25-year-old man has died after being shot on a café terrace in Annemasse's Perrier district late on Sunday night

The SVP and the PLR are pushing to expand Switzerland's F-35 order from thirty to thirty-six aircraft, at an added cost of CHF 650 million

Geneva’s World Meteorological Organization warns today that wildfire smoke has become a major global health risk — and that current mortality models may under-count deaths from it by as much as 93%

There is "nothing to rent" in Annemasse — unless you are paid in Swiss francs

Switzerland is about to swap late-summer for autumn almost overnight

Geneva voters will decide on 27 September whether to spend CHF 39.5 million on transport projects across the border in France

Montreux turned into a giant Freddie Mercury tribute this weekend, as the town marked what would have been the Queen singer's 80th birthday last Friday

Hundreds of Lausanne residents got a rare look inside the giant rebuild of the city's main station this weekend

Geneva has opened a new underground archaeological site displaying nearly 2,000 years of the city's history

Roughly one summer in two will be hotter than 2026, according to an ETH Zurich climatologist

After a decade of talks, 128 countries have reached the first global accord on autonomous weapons in Geneva

Switzerland's 27 September vote on tightening neutrality is splitting the political left three weeks out from polling day

Drought is squeezing Swiss cheese producers, with some Fribourg farmers now importing fodder from France just to keep their cows producing gruyère

Geneva's government will not appeal a court ruling that halted the tram 15 extension across the border to Saint-Julien-en-Genevois

A new University of Geneva study suggests the best way to get people to act on climate change is not to lecture them, but to move them

The commune of Crans-Montana has finally published the fire-inspection reports and internal audit tied to the Constellation nightclub tragedy, after months of refusing

Switzerland's family doctors have gone public with their anger at the new medical tariff Tardoc, saying it has failed to deliver the promised boost to general practice

French authorities have shut an Annecy street food outlet for 90 days after finding it employing five foreign workers without permits

Freddie Mercury would have turned 80 this Friday, and his statue still watches over Lake Geneva from Montreux

Leaves across Switzerland turned brown in mid-July, well before autumn — a sign of severe climate stress, not a natural cycle

Jura's parliament has voted down a motion demanding tighter rules for ride-hailing platforms like Uber and Bolt

The payment app Twint is branching beyond payments with a new digital shopping list

Switzerland's national railway is under fire for a blog post advising passengers to travel outside peak hours if they want a seat

Antoine Armand, elected mayor of Annecy in March, has made his first back-to-school visit as head of the cross-border city, meeting pupils and teachers at Cran-Gevrier's Vernay school on Tuesday morning

Rain in Switzerland is falling less often but more heavily when it does, and the trend is likely to continue, according to MeteoSwiss

Every big public event is likely to face tighter security after the fatal Aarau festival shooting, according to former national security chief André Duvillard

Zurich-based insurer Swiss Life will cut around 600 jobs by the end of 2028, with half of them in Switzerland

The security officer for Chermignon has told Valais prosecutors that no proper inspection of the Constellation bar ever took place before it opened in December 2015

Authorities now believe a lithium battery may have triggered Friday's warehouse fire at the Thévenaz-Leduc recycling site in Ecublens, though the cause has not yet been formally confirmed

Lake Geneva is up to 656 times more polluted by microplastics than previously thought, according to a new University of Lausanne and EPFL study

Swimming pools across French-speaking Switzerland have recorded unprecedented visitor numbers this summer, driven by four separate heatwaves

Nearly CHF 8 million has been declared for the two federal votes on 27 September, with the neutrality initiative alone drawing CHF 5.5 million

Switzerland's gender pay gap has narrowed slightly, but the unexplained portion still amounts to around CHF 640.- per month for women

Starbucks has banned electric scooters from all its Swiss branches, and Coop and Migros have followed suit

Swiss police have escalated the Aarau shooting to an international manhunt, with Fedpol launching arrest warrants through national and international systems

A University of Geneva study has confirmed what demographers call the "widowhood effect", and it hits Swiss men harder than women

A small exhibition opening this week at UBS headquarters in Zurich is celebrating 60 years since the first cash-machine withdrawal in Switzerland

Roger Federer has been inducted into the Tennis Hall of Fame, and the Basel-born champion broke down in tears during his acceptance speech

Lausanne pedestrians have handed the city a petition with nearly 1,000 signatures, demanding action against cyclists and e-scooter riders who ignore pedestrian zones

Switzerland's Nepalese and Tibetan communities are still waiting for word from relatives after violent floods tore through a Himalayan valley last Wednesday

A 22-year-old woman has been identified as the victim of Saturday’s Aarau rave shooting, and German police have joined the Swiss manhunt for the gunmen still at large

Zurich will vote next month on whether Exit and Dignitas should be allowed to operate inside hospitals and rehabilitation clinics

British long-distance swimmer Neil Gilson has completed a two-year challenge to swim the length of Switzerland's ten largest lakes, finishing at Geneva's Bains des Pâquis on Wednesday

Switzerland's Federal Office of Transport has approved the second phase of the Lausanne tramway, clearing the way for a 3.1-kilometre northern extension from Renens to Villars-Sainte-Croix

Swiss transport police are being handed tasers to tackle rising violence on trains and stations

Geneva Airport has shut parts of its Terminal 2 after a wooden-framed hangar collapsed overnight in mid-July

A Swiss national is among more than 1,300 people missing after Wednesday's flash floods in Nepal, according to the Tourism Board

Cracks are showing inside the SVP over Christoph Blocher's neutrality initiative, ahead of the 27 September vote

Switzerland is rolling out its first biometric identity card, with applications opening from 2 October

Jura police are warning young adults about a car-leasing scam that could leave them facing heavy financial and criminal consequences

Raiffeisen has announced it will cut up to 180 jobs next year, even as the bank posts one of its strongest half-year results.

Switzerland's rail operator will now prioritise maintaining its existing network over building new lines, its new president André Wyss has said

Switzerland is heading into a mixed few days, with Saharan dust returning and thunderstorms sweeping in later today

Geneva's La Bâtie festival opened its 50th edition yesterday with three weeks of theatre, dance, circus and music across venues around the city

ChatGPT started displaying adverts to users in Switzerland yesterday, part of the biggest geographical rollout of paid promotions on the platform to date

The Salève cable car will reopen this morning, its director has confirmed, after a two-day shutdown triggered by travellers parking their caravans in its car park

Vaud communes, not the canton, are the ones responsible for making school buildings liveable through the region's worsening heatwaves

Around a hundred Skyguide employees rallied outside the air traffic controller's Geneva headquarters on Monday warning management against pushing through a planned wave of redundancies

Geneva's public-sector unions say the cantonal government is undermining the right to strike, after the education department refused to notify parents by post or email about last week's two-day walkout on 17 and 18 August