A cellar fire in Geneva's Servette district forced the evacuation of a Coop supermarket and halted trams at rush hour last night
Flames broke out shortly after 4pm in the cellars of a six-storey building in rue de la Servette, next door to the Coop, prompting fifty firefighters to respond with ten vehicles.
Five people were treated at the scene but none needed hospital care.
Overnight motorway closures in Lausanne
Drivers on Lausanne's main motorway are facing nights of closures this week between Écublens and the Maladière junction
Air fares will increase into next year
Swiss travellers face much higher fares on Ryanair flights from next year, with the airline's chief executive warning of double-digit percentage hikes across Europe
Burglaries on the increase
Burglars in Geneva are increasingly targeting apartment cellars, with break-ins jumping 65 percent in a single year
Exodus out of our most expensive cities
Residents are leaving Switzerland's most expensive cities in record numbers, swapping Geneva, Zurich and Basel for cheaper neighbouring cantons
Small possibility of a tsunami on Lake Geneva
Lake Geneva and Lake Annecy all face a small but real tsunami risk — and human activity is making it worse
Crans Montana fire case continues this week
Jacques Moretti faces fresh questioning today, ten months into the Valais probe over the Crans-Montana fire that killed 41
