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Many of us are choosing to have our sumer vacations in ski resorts - as they’re cooler.

Three heatwaves in a matter of weeks are pushing architecture schools to rethink how they train the next generation.

Swiss customs are reminding holidaymakers what not to bring back this summer.

The 34 firefighters from French speaking Switzerland deployed to fight the French wildfires are back home, exhausted after a week of fighting fires of rare intensity.

Cities remain particularly dangerous for cyclists, according to a new analysis of federal accident data.

The Federal Council is scrapping the CHF 25 million a year that Parliament voted to help forests adapt to climate change, despite two clear parliamentary decisions.

Federal Councilors were out across the country marking National Day on Saturday - but not without controversy.

Pressure is mounting on Zurich-based FIFA and its Italo-Swiss president Gianni Infantino after North America's football body demanded a complete overhaul of his presidency.

Elected politicians in Switzerland carry more gender stereotypes than the voters they represent, a new University of Geneva and University of Lausanne study finds.

A thousand young people left a mountain pasture in the Vaud Jura unsuitable for grazing after an illegal rave.

A second team of 33 firefighters from French speaking Switzerland will travel to south-western France this weekend to relieve colleagues battling the wildfires.

Smoke from the wildfires ravaging south-western France has drifted into Switzerland, the federal weather service MétéoSuisse says.

Geneva's construction workers remain on the job despite soaring temperatures, prompting fresh criticism from the SIT union.

Switzerland's short-term economic outlook has brightened in July, according to the KOF barometer released yesterday.

Two Annemasse municipal officers have been attacked by a woman this week, in the latest incident to fuel concerns about violence in the cross-border town.

Geneva and Vaud have the cheapest public pools, according to a new comparison of 268 sites released as another heatwave bakes the country.

The head of Switzerland's Bilingualism Forum is warning that pushing French teaching out of primary school would put national cohesion at risk.

The head of Swiss military procurement has made a secretive trip to Israel, and the Defence Department will not say who he met.

Zurich-based FIFA is opening its most prized competitions to private investors, in a move already drawing threats of a European boycott.

UBS has once again beaten analyst expectations, posting a sharp jump in second-quarter profits.

Swiss workers are the most enthusiastic users of artificial intelligence in Europe.

Wasp nests are surging across the country and French-speaking areas the worst-hit region.

We’re heading into a fireworks-free national day.

Switzerland is bracing for another blast of extreme heat, with temperatures set to reach 38°C by tomorrow and stay high well into August.

The Federal Administrative Court has stopped plans for extending Geneva's Tram 15 to Saint-Julien-en-Genevois.

Football's rulemakers have confirmed that Breel Embolo should not have been sent off in Switzerland's World Cup quarter-final against Argentina.

Russia is publicly attacking Switzerland's neutrality just two months before Swiss voters decide whether to enshrine it in the Constitution.

The Swiss Football Association is rethinking its support for FIFA president Gianni Infantino after the controversies of the recent World Cup.

Switzerland's watch industry is pushing Washington for an exemption from the new 12.5% US tariff that took effect on Friday.

Six years after the pandemic, around 400,000 are still living with long Covid, and most of the specialist clinics that treated them have closed.

The 49th Paléo Festival ended on a high, attracting 250,000 people over six days.

The European Court of Human Rights has condemned Switzerland for denying a pregnant detainee her right to family life.

The Green Party leader Lisa Mazzone is now attaching specific anti-overheating regulations and air-conditioned hospitals to her party's continuing campaign against Environment Minister Albert Rösti.

Births are rising again in Geneva after two years of decline.

Hidden beneath the surface of Lake Geneva, a major engineering project is underway.

The recent violent storms in central parts of the country have brought back memories of an horrific air crash in 1972 when a piece of debris, which had been lodged in a tree for more than 50 years, hit the ground.

Cantons Geneva, Valais, Fribourg, Zurich, Glarus and Schwyz have all imposed total fire bans as the drought pushes wildfire risk into the "high" or "very high" range across most of the country.

Fribourg dairy farmers are being forced to bring their cows down from the mountains months ahead of schedule, as the drought leaves nothing left to graze.

There’s growing anger following the death of a 30 year old motorcyclist over the weekend.

Dozens of women rallied in Bellinzona on Tuesday evening to protest domestic violence, after Ticino recorded its third femicide of the year on 9 July.

More than 20 people have already drowned in Switzerland this summer, yet the mood along Lake Geneva's shores remains untroubled.

Another heat wave is on the horizon. Our break from extreme heat will continue until Friday, with sunshine and temperatures between 26 and 29 degrees.

Switzerland is bracing for Donald Trump's tariff decision on Swiss goods, due by Friday at the latest.

A motion filed in the National Council would raise Switzerland's legal minimum holiday from four weeks to five for every employee.

A US-born scam known as "digital shoplifting" is reaching Swiss online shoppers.

A retiree in canton Vaud has turned the tables on two fake police officers who tried to scam him at home.

Train delays are climbing as heat cracks the rails.

Long swimsuits are once again allowed in Geneva's public pools, after the canton's constitutional court suspended the ban.

Aargau prosecutors are asking for a life sentence for a former Swiss People’s Party cantonal MP accused of drugging and raping several women and a girl over a period of years.

Switzerland's largest party is warning that the country's new treaty package with the European Union would let criminals cross the border freely, a claim legal experts call vastly exaggerated.

Switzerland's dams are less than half full, the lowest level in two decades, after weeks of heat and no rain have drained rivers and lakes across the country.

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The heatwave is taking a break this week, with MeteoSwiss forecasting cooler and more stable air across the country and no thunderstorm risk until Friday.

The most sought-after apartments, top-floor attic flats with big windows and lake views, are starting to lose their appeal as summers grow hotter.

Swiss publishing giant Ringier is reportedly ending the SonntagsBlick, closing one of the country's oldest Sunday newspapers after 57 years.

Small businesses that have grown dependent on generative AI are starting to feel the true cost of the technology.

Geneva hospitals are bracing for a delayed surge as symptoms of last week's heat wave hit patients days after the temperatures dropped.

The queue at the Gotthard road tunnel stretched back ten kilometres yesterday morning, meaning a wait of one hour and forty minutes for drivers heading south.

Around 300 people gathered at Vidy beach in Lausanne on Saturday for an anti-fascist picnic, two weeks after a 35-year-old man was attacked there by neo-nazi assailants in broad daylight.

The 60th Montreux Jazz Festival drew more than 250,000 people, with paid venues averaging 91% capacity.

Lightning killed 97 blacknose sheep in the Binn valley in Valais during last week’s storms.

Vaud and Valais have called off their heatwave alerts as thunderstorms move in and temperatures drop.

Switzerland's mountain guides are now telling climbers to stay off the Matterhorn entirely, as the heatwave makes conditions there dangerous.

Air conditioning is back at the centre of Geneva's political debate as the heatwave continues.

Switzerland has been condemned by the European Court of Human Rights over its treatment of two vegan detainees.

The Swiss/Swedish engineering firm, ABB is preparing the largest acquisition in its history, launching a takeover bid for British engineering firm Rotork.

Valais has already lost more people to accidents this year than in the whole of 2025 — 77 lives by mid-July, against 69 last year.

Valais is the canton where residents face the highest flood risk, with 24% of the population living in a hazard zone.

The numbers behind our brutal summer are now in, and MeteoSuisse says June ran three to four degrees above the 30-year average nationwide.

Two climbers have been killed by a rockfall on Mont Blanc as an early-summer heatwave leaves the standard route dangerously dry.

The Paléo music festival is bracing for whatever this summer's weather throws at it, with its own weather station and a meteorologist on site throughout the run.

Several unidentified drones flew close to the Gösgen nuclear plant on Sunday night, and police in Solothurn are still trying to work out who was behind them.

A Geneva MP is pushing to ban loud cars and motorcycles from city streets at night.