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The country’s biggest employers and trade unions have joined forces against Sunday's population cap initiative, branding it the "chaos initiative".

Geneva is preparing for major road, border and lake closures as the G7 summit lands in Evian.

Non-EU travellers arriving at Swiss airports are facing much longer immigration queues, as Europe's new biometric Entry/Exit System bites.

The bank Raiffeisen has cut its Swiss growth forecast for this year and next, blaming the ongoing war in the Middle East.

Geneva police are appealing for witnesses after a driver hit a teenage girl on a zebra crossing and drove off.

Shops will not be allowed to open on more Sundays after all.

Voters go to the polls this Sunday to decide whether to cap the country's population below ten million people until 2050.

Canton Vaud has released its plans for heightened security during the G7 summit.

A major search operation on Geneva's Rhône River ended with a happy outcome.

The ban on building new nuclear power plants could be heading for the scrapheap.

Swiss festival organisers are distancing themselves from French singer Patrick Bruel after his arrest on sexual assault allegations.

Switzerland's biggest online retailer has wiped 380,000 product reviews after uncovering coordinated fraud.

Swiss Post has fired a 60-year-old postman after he refused to leave parcels in apartment lobbies.

Emergency services are searching the Rhône in Geneva tonight for a young man who failed to resurface after jumping into the river with three friends.

Geneva is now the most congested city in the country, with Lausanne in third place.

Geneva will transfer a record CHF 411 million to France this year under the Financial Compensation scheme, up from CHF 396 million last year.

The investigation into the deadly Crans-Montana bar fire has taken a sharp new turn.

Cocaine use in Switzerland continues to rise, according to a new study by Addiction Switzerland.

Controversy has overshadowed the 87th Bol d'Or sailing competition this weekend.

The next G7 Summit will be held in Évian-les-Bains from 15 to 17 June 2026, bringing together heads of state and government from the G7 nations: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Geneva is bracing for next week's G7 summit in Évian, with nearly 4,000 soldiers backing up 1,500 cantonal police across Geneva, Vaud and Valais.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has named Switzerland as a possible venue for a face-to-face meeting with Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine.

A Geneva family has discovered that their son Alexandre, who was killed by a hit-and-run driver three years ago, was buried without his brain.

Travellers arriving at Swiss airports from outside the Schengen area are now waiting up to two hours at passport control, because of the EU's new Entry-Exit System.

Ticino voters head to the polls on 14 June on a proposal to create Switzerland's first compulsory cantonal dental insurance.

Swiss striker Breel Embolo has been granted a US visa and will join the World Cup squad in California on Friday evening.

A University of Zurich study shows that sperm quality among young Swiss men is holding steady.

Washington has proposed an extra 12.5% tariff on Swiss exports as part of a sweeping new offensive against 60 economies.

Support is slipping for the Swiss People's Party initiative to cap the population at 10 million, ahead of the 14 June federal vote.

The National Council has voted to widely expand the powers of Switzerland's Federal Intelligence Service, citing growing terrorist, cyber and foreign-interference threats.

Crans-Montana president Nicolas Féraud has broken 126 days of silence to confirm he will not resign over the New Year's Day disaster at the Constellation building.

Parenthood is the leading factor weighing on the mental health of adults in Switzerland - more than work or money - according to a new AXA study.

Vaud has unveiled a new plan to help teachers cope with disruptive and high-needs pupils, after rising complaints that classroom misconduct is undermining lessons.

The St George's International School in Montreux has bought a historic Belle Époque villa for CHF 40 million, planning to convert it into a prestigious boarding house.

Geneva's public sector has begun a three-day strike against the canton's proposed budget cuts.

Switzerland has been hit by violent storms, with nearly 7,500 lightning strikes recorded by yesterday evening.

The G7 summit on the French shore of Lake Geneva is set to upend daily life for thousands of cross-border travellers from 11 June.

An Australian former Formula 3 driver has gone on trial in Nyon, accused of raping a former nurse employed by the Schumacher family at the racing legend's villa in Gland in 2019.

The Geneva headquarters of commodities trader Gunvor have been searched by federal investigators over suspected corruption of foreign public officials.

Parliament is moving to tax the small parcels arriving from Chinese platforms such as Shein and Temu.

Switzerland could be forced to pay around CHF 1 billion a year under an EU reform of cross-border worker unemployment benefits.

Switzerland's cantonal police chiefs are warning that a yes vote on the SVP's "No to 10 million" initiative would seriously compromise Swiss security.

The Swiss federal railways are preparing to retire around 400 trains contaminated with asbestos or other hazardous substances.

The Swiss National Council will debate this summer whether to confiscate former army weapons that have been sitting unused in homes for more than a decade.

The 31-year-old Turkish-Swiss man suspected of last Thursday's knife attack in Winterthur has been placed in pretrial detention.

Activists planning a major counter-summit just over the French border from Geneva have called the protest off, two weeks before G7 leaders meet at Évian-les-Bains.

Vaud's prosecutor has confirmed that a 75-year-old man whose body was found in France last autumn was killed at his tenant's home in Canton Vaud.

About sixty residents of La Chaux-de-Fonds will spend the month of June without their cars, in a second edition of the city's mobility challenge.

Switzerland has lost the ice hockey world championship final to Finland in overtime, in front of 10,000 fans at Zurich's Swiss Life Arena last night.

The Federal Office for Cybersecurity is warning of a wave of fraudulent emails posing as cantonal unemployment funds.

Geneva has the least punctual buses in Switzerland, according to a new report from the Federal Office of Transport.

The Stewi - the umbrella-style rotating clothes dryer found in countless gardens around the world - has been saved from liquidation by a new owner.

Two local doctors in the Valais village of Loèche are leading the fight against Elon Musk's plan to build Europe's largest Starlink ground station there.

Geneva police are heading into a punishing fortnight of G7 duty, with unions warning officers risk dangerous fatigue.

Three men were wounded in a knife attack at Winterthur train station yesterday morning.

Three psychiatrists are back in court in Neuchâtel over the Valangin axe attack of April 2018, that left four people seriously injured.

The Valais village of Blatten marked one year since the glacier collapse buried most of the community.

Switzerland has cemented its place as the world's biggest per-capita buyer of Fairtrade goods, even as supermarkets fight a price war.

Basel Zoo has welcomed three African elephants from Germany, two months after its last two female elephants were transferred to parks in France.

Geneva and the organisers of the anti-G7 march are at an impasse over the cortege route, less than three weeks before the summit in nearby Évian.

Switzerland could see kilometre-long traffic jams at its borders if voters back the People's Party's "No to 10 million" initiative on 14 June.

Five teenagers will stand trial in Annecy in neighbouring France this summer over a knife attack on a 14-year-old boy outside a school.

Foreign residents across Switzerland are being warned about fake letters claiming they will be expelled from the country.

Ice-Hockey team Fribourg-Gottéron has raised season-ticket prices for next season, angering some fans just weeks after the club's first Swiss championship title.

Switzerland is on track to record one of the hottest and driest Mays in its history.

Fribourg Olympic are once again Swiss basketball champions, beating the Geneva Lions 86-66 to win their 23rd national title yesterday.

As Switzerland prepares to vote on capping immigration, observers are drawing parallels with Brexit.

Over the past five years, 22 reports of suspected sexual abuse in childcare settings have been passed to authorities across French-speaking Switzerland.

A small wild animal has been living in the underground Cornavin car park in Geneva for around four months.

Caspar Coppetti, co-founder and now co-CEO of Swiss sportswear company On, has sparked discussion after saying “the week has 80 working hours” when asked about his workload.

A new Franco-Swiss survey highlights clear differences in political attitudes between the two countries.

A series of new rules comes into force in Switzerland on 1 June.

Most Swiss people support the army - but far fewer are willing to pay more to fund it.

Geneva now has the highest unemployment rate in Switzerland, at 5.1%.

Geneva fears it will be left with the security bill from a G7 summit just across the border in Évian, according to 24 heures.

Switzerland relies too heavily on an American NGO to detect child sexual abuse online, raising questions about the country's ability to protect children on its own.

The Paléo Festival in Nyon says it will no longer invite French singer Patrick Bruel, after a former volunteer accused him of inappropriate behaviour.

The cantons are struggling to keep up with mandatory vehicle inspections, leaving more than 550,000 checks overdue nationwide.

Rents may rise again, says the bank Raiffeisen.

Summer has arrived, with temperatures climbing past 30 over the long weekend. Basel reached 31 and Sion hit 32.4, but MeteoSwiss, says this does not yet count as an official heatwave.

Sunny skies and temperatures approaching 30 degrees are expected this weekend, making lakes and rivers popular destinations across. But authorities canton Vaud are warning swimmers about a very real risk: cyanobacteria, which can spread rapidly in warm, still water.

The Vengeron beach has reopened after being closed since Tuesday due to pollution linked to a ruptured sewage pipe near Geneva Airport.

A family in Nyon had a terrifying ordeal when several hooded intruders broke into their house and forced them to open the safe earlier this week.