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The Swiss National Bank has expressed support for tougher banking regulations aimed at strengthening the stability of the country’s largest banks.

Authorities are investigating a secondary school in the German-speaking part of the country, where students used artificial intelligence to create and circulate deepfake nude images of classmates.

The government is planning closer military cooperation with other European countries and NATO.

A resistance movement is mobilising in Geneva ahead of the G7 Summit in nearby Evian, in the middle of June.

A court in Aargau has ruled that a minor juvenile prank is not sufficient to block a Swiss passport application.

In canton Basel-Country a voting campaign is having unintended consequences.

The army is still losing too many weapons - despite an effort 10 years ago to keep better track of them.

Swiss authorities have raised avalanche danger to level four, which is high,in parts of Valais.

Swiss skier Franjo von Allmen is having the kind of Olympics most athletes only dream about.

Authorities in Canton Zurich have seized four Rottweilers after the owners failed to apply for the required permit under the canton’s 2025 Rottweiler ban.

Voters will go to the polls on 14 June 2026 to decide on an initiative to cap the population at ten million.

Voters are strongly opposed to raising VAT to fund either the army or a 13th pension payment.

We may not be using cash as much - but we still love it. And it’s likely voters will choose to protect it in March.

Switzerland’s fight against corruption is losing ground, according to Transparency International.

Vaud police are set to expand the use of tasers after a six-month trial showed positive results.

Ski resorts at mid-altitudes are increasingly struggling with climate change, as warmer and drier winters threaten snow cover.

Police hope they’ve smashed a major burglary ring.

A disgruntled former employee of the luxury goods company, Chopard, has been charged with theft after items worth more than CHF 200,000 were found in a garden shed.

Locals in villages in cantons Valais and Vaud are frustrated by cars trying to avoid the autoroute jams.

Electric scooters are now a familiar sight, but police and parliamentarians say they’re also a growing problem.

A woman in Zurich is on trial for alleged animal cruelty after she refused the advice from her vet that her cat needed an operation to save its life.

You don’t mess with Prosecco. A Valais winery has just learned that the hard way.

Measles cases are rising again across Europe, and experts say Switzerland could lose its measles free status.

This country is under constant cyber attack.

A memorial tent that had been set up near the site of the tragic New Year's fire in Crans-Montana has burnt down - destroying many of the flowers and gifts left for the victims.

Zurich is among Europe’s most stressful cities for drivers, according to a new traffic study.

Switzerland, and everyone else, was expecting this county to take gold in the downhill skiing on Saturday – and it did.

The courts have backed Geneva's move to ban kids who live in France from attending schools in the canton.

There may be hope in the fight against hospital infections, following a breakthrough at the EHT University in Zurich.

Complaints against the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation are soaring in the run up to the vote which will decide if the licence fee should be slashed.

Residents of the Geneva commune of Soral are raising the alarm over growing traffic problems linked to the Soral II border crossing.

After ten years of debate, the Jonction park project is finally moving.

Crans-Montana is to donate a million francs to a fund to help the victims of the New Year’s fire.

Following accusations of racism in its police force, Lausanne has published two reports highlighting serious issues.

The bank, UBS, made a profit of nearly USD 8bn last year, around CHF 6bn, comfortably beating analysts’ expectations.

While overall car registrations in Switzerland have been falling for six years, electric and hybrid vehicles are on the rise.

A German Shepherd attack has cost its multimillionaire owner CHF 330,000.

Swiss lawyers are calling for an investigation into Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis.

The Federal Councillor, Ignazio Cassis , is under fire for using the government’s private jet to fly around the country.

Nearly 15% of students at the University of Geneva skipped medical care last year because of cost, according to the Student Life Observatory.

It's an old scam, but it remains a favorite.

Swisscom is facing calls to pay its customers compensation after failures with its television service.

Don’t expect summer any time soon - that’s a warning from the forecasters.

It’s been revealed the latest victim of the Crans Montana fire - an 18 year old man - had caught a serious infection while in hospital.

Newly released US justice documents are shedding light on Jeffrey Epstein’s deep links to Switzerland.

People who lived in the UK during the eighties can now give blood in Switzerland.

Swiss politicians are mulling if a stricter alcohol policy should be on the ski slopes.

Zurich could become a major night-travel hub for Europe.

The death toll from the Crans-Montana fire has ticked up by one after an 18 year old man died at the University Hospital Zurich on Saturday.

Following last month’s tragedy in Crans-Montana, carnivals across Switzerland are tightening fire safety.

Canton Geneva is getting a windfall from the central bank.

Swiss winegrowers are facing another blow.

Several thousand people took to the streets of Bern on Saturday in support of the Kurdish region in northern Syria.

Forecasters are warning of strong winds and bitter cold coming in central and eastern parts of the country.

Prosecutors investigating the Crans-Montana fire are now turning their attention to members of the municipal council.

The transport minister Albert Rösti has made his priorities clear - and widening the A1 between Lausanne and Geneva is not happening anytime soon.

Is skiing now an exclusive sport?

What’s happening with the discount supermarket Aldi in Switzerland?

Suspected fake police officers have been arrested after a series of violent robberies at autoroute service areas.

This weekend is shaping up loud and fast in Geneva. The 5th edition of Recluses Fest kicks off tonight and Saturday at the Alhambra, with the first wave of concerts and a seriously international punk-rock lineup.

The government wants to hike VAT rates to pay for the army.

Swiss made weapons have been used by ICE agents in the United States.

A major fire broke out on the roof of a luxury hotel in the French ski resort of Courchevel last night.

Residents in Satigny in canton Geneva are being told to avoid drinking tap water after a technical incident hit a reservoir yesterday morning.

Cheap clothes, giant stores, and bargain prices - that’s the Primark formula.

Zurich is blowing the whistle on leaf blowers.

The Swiss franc is on a roll.

Nearly six out of ten people say they’re struggling to find housing - and it’s worse in the cities.

Young people could soon start paying into their pension fund much earlier - from age 20 instead of 25.

Trains are more punctual than ever - and when they are late, the blame normally lies with another country.

A United Airlines flight from Washington to Geneva had to turn back over the Atlantic last week - and the reason is a bit wild.

A woman offering high-mountain climbing trips without the proper qualifications has been fined CHF 5,000 in Valais.

In Geneva, a 52-year-old woman was found dead early Saturday morning in her apartment in Carouge.

The French-speaking cantons are drawing a firm line against cutting the licence fee that funds the Swiss public broadcaster, the SSR.

In the tariff dispute with Switzerland, Donald Trump is suddenly short one key argument.

Babybio Optima infant formula has been pulled from Migros shelves in French-speaking Switzerland.

Geneva is sounding the alarm over Roblox.

Clocks change at the end of the week - and it could be dangerous - as it sends more people to hospital.

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Residents in the threatened village of Brienz in Graubünden were allowed to visit their homes briefly yesterday.

Courtesy of the Interlaken tourist office, you can win 2 nights for two people at the Hotel Metropole in Interlaken with fantastic views of the Jungfrau.

WRS normal programming back in January