Rising fuel prices are affecting frontaliers in the Chablais, where the public transport network isn’t adequate enough for most workers to leave the car at home
More than 10,000 kilometres of commuting a year is the norm for many in the region.
The pressure falls hardest on cross-border workers already juggling Swiss salaries with French household costs.
The lack of viable alternative transport in the Chablais remains a long-standing problem
More drug related violence in Geneva
A gunman has opened fire in broad daylight in the Perrier neighbourhood of Annemasse, just across the border from Geneva
More school protest disruption in Haute Savoie
Around 200 students blocked Annecy's lycée Charles-Baudelaire yesterday morning, the latest flare-up in a wave of French school protests over learning conditions
AI changes employment for young people
Switzerland's young apprenticeship graduates are stuck in an AI paradox: employers reject them for lack of experience, while artificial intelligence has automated the entry-level tasks that once built that experience
New scam alert
Thousands of Swiss phone users have received a genuine UBS activation code by SMS overnight — the first stage of what the bank describes as a new, multi-step scam
Snow returns to Zermatt
Zermatt reopens its glacier for free skiing from next Wednesday, after a heatwave forced the cable car operator to shut the slopes in late July
Autoroute ramp lights review
The federal roads office is reviewing more than 130 new ramp-metering lights at motorway entries, aiming to smooth peak-hour traffic across Switzerland
