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The drought could mean the suspension of a major communication route for Switzerland.

Switzerland is suffering from a shortage of nurses. The head of the Swiss Nurses Association, Sophie Ley, says the situation is a disaster – and she warns it’s only going to get worse.

More details have been released about the victims of the horror crash on the Bernina Pass at the beginning of the week.

Police in Glarus launched a major operation after a briefcase was left abandoned on the street for several hours.

A million people are expected to dance on the streets of Zurich tomorrow as the Street Parade is back – after a two-year Covid break.

The army is extending its operation to deliver water to Alpine farms as the drought continues.

The first polls ahead of a series of votes next month have been published – and it looks set the campaign to end intensive farming in Switzerland will pass – thanks to broad support in urban areas.

A man has been fined for animal cruelty after he set up a fox trap in his garden in Zurich which led to an animal having to be euthanized.

A group of teenagers are being criticised after they took a daring climb across the Rhine Falls near Schaffhausen.

The heatwave is having a major impact on the well being of the elderly. The Geneva University Hospital says there’s a clear rise in admissions in the geriatric department.

A major accident on the Bernina Pass has killed two people.

The price difference in fuel between Switzerland and France is straining resources across the border.

Wine growers around the Geneva region are hopeful the weather will be good news for this year’s harvest.

The glaciers are giving up the dead. Over the last couple of weeks, two skeletons have been uncovered by retreating ice and a small plane that crashed in 1968 has emerged.

A man in his thirties was found dead on Sunday in the lake waters near Eaux-Vives in Geneva.

The continuing warm weather is causing havoc for farmers and wildlife – as well as the continuing high risk of forest fires.

Geneva residents are being warned to watch out for falling tree branches.

Geneva taxi drivers are threatening further action if Uber is allowed to continue operating in the canton.

Stock upon candles and firewood this winter. That’s the advice from the chairmen of the Federal Energy Commission, Werner Luginbühl.

There’ll be no relief from the cost-of-living crisis next year as a new report suggests health insurance premiums are set to rise in 2023.

The latest figures from the Geneva Statistics Office suggests businesses in the canton believe the economy is doing generally well.

Major queues formed at both ends of the Gotthard Tunnel yesterday afternoon.

As the number of cases of monkeypox continues to rise around the world, the gay community in Switzerland is calling on the government to make a vaccine for the disease available here.

Switzerland, along with several other countries, has tabled a resolution at the United Nations General Assembly asking that the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is recognized as a human right in its own right.

Two young Ganges gharials, an endangered species of mini crocodile, have settled into their new home at the Aquatis aquarium and vivarium in Lausanne as part of a conservation programme for the species.

A study, carried out by the Federal Office of Energy, says that new 5G antennas have no negative impacts on health and that radiation from 5G is ‘moderate’, a conclusion that is seen as an important step in the rolling out of 5G in Switzerland.

A body has been recovered from a car that sank in Lake Lucerne in central Switzerland on Sunday. The car was recovered from the bottom of the lake yesterday.

With fireworks being banned or severely restricted in many cantons to mark Swiss National Day next week, it’s been announced that fireworks set off in Switzerland in a normal year produce 300 tonnes of fine particle pollutants.

Four Swiss universities have been given the green light to take part in the European Universities initiative aimed at strengthening the competitiveness of higher education in Europe.

Ski lifts in Zermatt, usually open all year round, will no longer operate from tomorrow due to high temperatures and a lack of rain and snow.

Hackers have released more than 60,000 documents relating to the clients of a Geneva company that specialises in cybersecurity, with information from public institutions, banks and law firms being leaked on the darknet.

Passengers travelling between Switzerland and Germany face cancellations today due to a strike by ground staff of the German airline Lufthansa.

It’s been revealed that the shifting of a glacier, which is melting due to global warming, has led to a mountain refuge that was originally on Italian soil now being two-thirds in Switzerland.

Residents at a nursing home in the canton of Neuchatel are being relocated over fears that the home, on the edge of a forest, is at high risk from forest fires.

Acrobatic drones and light displays will replace the traditional fireworks to mark Swiss National Day next Monday, August the 1st.

Valuable experience has been learned after 12 firefighters from the fire and rescue service in Geneva helped their colleagues in southwestern France to fight a gigantic forest fire.

A decision to allow swimming pools to be topped up but watering gardens to be banned has been clarified after public outcry in neighbouring France.

It’s been announced that nearly 1,300 people in Switzerland who were scammed by the American company Next-Gen will receive some compensation.

The body of a 48-year-old man, who disappeared in Lake Neuchâtel last Tuesday, has been found by a water sports enthusiast in Hauterive, four days after he went missing.

As restrictions on water continue, a decision to allow residents of Haute-Savoie in neighbouring France to top up their swimming pools and for golf courses and sports fields to be watered but not vegetable plots has been met with anger from councillors and residents alike.

Around 30'000 young scouts from all over Switzerland have set up camp in the vallée de Conches in the canton of Valais, the largest ever scout camp in the country.

Paleo Festival 2022 has come to a close last night with performances from Lil Simz and Stromae. Artists earlier in the week included Kiss, DJ Snake, Sting and Rag n Bone man.