A 16-year-old boy held in connection with a triple shooting in Uppsala which killed three youths is no longer a suspect.

Sweden has a 'relatively weak brand' in India, and to the extent that it is known at all, the country is not associated with ...

Father of Uppsala shooting victim describes 15-year-old son as 'world's kindest person', apartment prices plummet in some ...

Swedish-Finnish humour trio KAJ's 'Bara Bada Bastu' has emerged as an unexpected favourite to win the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest. The Local has done a line-by-line translation of the lyrics, so that ...

The Local's Fika Calendar walks you through a whole year of Sweden's coffee-and-cake tradition, with information on the ...

The leader of Sweden’s opposition Social Democrats Magdalena Andersson used Labour Day to launch a major proposal to overhaul ...

Swedish trade minister Benjamin Dousa has called for Sweden to strengthen its image as an "open and freedom-loving country" ...

May 1st is a public holiday in Sweden, where Swedes have a day off in celebration of the workers' movement. How are shops, ...

A Turkish court on Wednesday gave a Swedish journalist a suspended sentence of just over 11 months for insulting President ...

A 16-year-old youth has been arrested in Uppsala on suspicion of murder after the triple gun murder that took place in the ...

This week's episode of Sweden in Focus Extra for Membership+ subscribers features an interview with Magdalena Dahlborg, an ...

The first visit to a sauna (bastu in Swedish) can be quite a culture shock for new arrivals to Sweden, so to make it a bit ...