Swiss and EU meet to discuss free movement agreement
Sept. 15, 2016, 7:14 a.m.Swiss and EU officials have met again to discuss the terms of the free movement of people agreement after Switzerland...
Switzerland and UK meet to discuss Brexit trade
Sept. 15, 2016, 7:11 a.m.Switzerland's president and Britain's trade minister have met to discuss bilateral economic relations and the fallout...
Swiss flight cancelled after on board fight
Sept. 14, 2016, 2:21 p.m.Swiss International Air Lines aborted a flight from Geneva to Algiers after six passengers got into a fight about the...
Two Vaud pig farms face charges for poor treatment
Sept. 14, 2016, 2:10 p.m.Two of the three Vaud pig farms accused by animal rights campaigners to be keeping their animals in squalid living co...
City debates a shorter Geneva Lake Festival
Sept. 14, 2016, 1:34 p.m.Geneva City Council are debating an initiative to further reduce the duration of the Geneva Lake Festival.
In 2015 t...
New lights to control pedestrians installed at Bern railway station
Sept. 14, 2016, 1:14 p.m.New lights to control the rush hour chaos have been installed at Bern railway station for pedestrians.
In June, SBB ...
New president, Aleksander Ceferin says UEFA must show leadership
Sept. 14, 2016, 12:56 p.m.Slovenia's Aleksander Ceferin has been elected as UEFA's seventh president at a congress in Athens.
The orga...
New and improved breathalyzer to be launched in Switzerland
Sept. 14, 2016, 12:28 p.m.A new and improved breathalyzer is to be launched in Switzerland next month that will test alcohol levels without the...
Migros in Geneva signs deal with French firm for sale of all alcohol
Sept. 14, 2016, 12:26 p.m.Migros in Geneva has signed a deal with French firm for the sale of alcohol in its stores from the end of this month....
Motion to limit spending on health insurance premiums rejected
Sept. 14, 2016, 11:45 a.m.The Swiss Senate has rejected a motion to put a cap on spending on health insurance premiums.
Geneva Socialist MP, L...
Chamonix cable car crisis would not happen in Switzerland
Sept. 14, 2016, 8:29 a.m.An expert on cable cars has said last week's incident in Chamonix where 33 tourists spent the night trapped in gondol...
Major fire alerts across Switzerland
Sept. 14, 2016, 7:03 a.m.The whole of western Switzerland is under red alert for fire hazards, except for Geneva, which is an oasis of green!
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Pressure to do more to target unhealthy food
Sept. 14, 2016, 6:56 a.m.An increasing number of Swiss want to see higher taxes on sugar and unhealthy food, with three out of four saying the...
CHF 1.5bn to be spent on A1 in Geneva
Sept. 14, 2016, 6:49 a.m.CHF 2.5 bn is to be invested in building a third lane on the A1 autoroute in Geneva over the next 15 years, in a bid ...
Geneva police to man major junctions
Sept. 14, 2016, 6:41 a.m.From today police will make regular checks at road intersections in Geneva to improve traffic flow.
The procedure, b...
Zurich named greenest city in the world
Sept. 13, 2016, 3:21 p.m.Zurich has been named the greenest city in the world.
Geneva came 12th in the 2016 Arcadis Sustainable Cities Index,...
TPG tram driver injured in collision with truck in Geneva
Sept. 13, 2016, 3:09 p.m.A tram driver has been injured after colliding with a truck this morning near Geneva airport.
Passengers had to comp...
Pilot who died in Susten Pass crash honoured at military funeral
Sept. 13, 2016, 3:03 p.m.The funeral of the pilot from Vaud who died in a crash near the Susten pass at the end of August has been held at a c...
Vaud pig farm to close after squalid living conditions revealed
Sept. 13, 2016, 2:31 p.m.A pig farm in the canton of Vaud is to close after animal rights campaigners released a video showing the squalid liv...
New army recruits accidentaly fire at a house in Thun
Sept. 13, 2016, 11:32 a.m.Three new army recruits are being investigated after they accidentally fired 5 shots from a machine gun during a weap...
UBS to send account information to the Netherlands
Sept. 13, 2016, 8:55 a.m.UBS has been given the green light to send client information to authorities in the Netherlands.
Judges at the Feder...
Vaud to boost public transport investment
Sept. 13, 2016, 8:52 a.m.The canton of Vaud is to heavily invest in its public transport infrastructure to meet the needs of a growing populat...
Explosives missing at army base
Sept. 13, 2016, 8:50 a.m.Several kilos of explosives have disappeared from an infantry recruit school in Aarau.
Officials made the discovery ...
Drive to cut food waste in Geneva
Sept. 13, 2016, 8:46 a.m.100,000 green bins are to be distributed for free around Geneva next spring to encourage residents to sort their food...
