Since this morning it is proving impossible to buy tickets for the trains either online, through the app or at the ticket machines. Hopefully the problem will be resovled in the coming hours. Last Saturday the FC Lucerne played at home against the FC St …
For the first time in its history the canton’s governing council has voted two women in, one of which is a member of the socialist party. Ylfete Fanaj also has the particularity of not having been born here. She is Albanian but moved to Switzerland …
The village of Brienz in the Graubunden area is in danger of being covered by up to 2 million cubic meters of rocks, which is why the close to 100 inhabitants have until Friday 6 p.m. to evacuate their homes and hope for the best. …
We all know the dangers of falling for email scams, but this scam took scamming to a whole new level. A cheese producer in the Gruyere region delivered 32.7 tons of cheese, worth 450 000 francs to the UK, believing that he was sending the …
On Sunday night a fire broke out in an apartment block near the Löwenplatz, the building is used for social apartments and is known for its lax security. Unfortunately 1 person died, 4 others were rushed to hospital and a further 30 were evacuated. It …
Happy Labour Day! Today is May 1st and in most countries and some cantons it is a day off work. However thanks to the federalistic governing style of Switzerland only Protestant cantons get the day off, whilst Catholic cantons do not. This is because the …
If you do not count Ukrainians, people coming from the middle East and Africa make up the largest demographical population of asylum seekers in Switzerland. What is surprising officials, is that Morocco is now the third country behind Afghanistant and Turkey. These are mainly asylum …
According to a recent study, Switzerland has room for up to 11.4 million inhabitants without having to make massive infrastructural changes. Somewhat surprisingly in view of the current lodging crisis, Zurich supposedly has the most room for growth, with another 500 000 inhabitants being able …
This Sunday was a big election day with both the cantonal parliament and government being elected. So far three members of the government have been confirmed, they are the releected Peter Fabian (FDP) and Reto Wyss (Mitte) and newcomer Michaela Tschuor also from the Mitte …
On Sunday whilst the fusion between UBS and Credit Suisse was being finalised and announced to the world, the management of Credit Suisse was assuring its management that their promised bonuses would be paid out this coming friday. Having got wind of this, the government …
