British nationals living abroad were urged to send their MPs postcards this summer as part of a campaign for dedicated MPs ...

A handful of Swedish first names appear occasionally at the tail end of Swedish words denoting everything from cry babies to ...

Very often the worst moments of a holiday are the ones where you go to see the sights, only to be met by crowds, overpriced ...

Centre Party business spokesperson Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist has called for municipalities in Sweden to be allowed to impose ...

Human-caused climate change made a recent Nordic heatwave about 2 degrees Celsius hotter, putting a strain on healthcare, ...

Swedes have a rich and tradition of coining creative compound words to label and ridicule one another -- perhaps reflecting a ...

Sweden's government will next year bring in a new subsidy for dental care which will more than halve the average annual cost ...

The Swedish Migration Agency is hoping to clear its backlog of four-year-old citizenship cases by the end of this year after ...

Traffic over the Öresund Bridge reached record levels in the first half of 2025, as residents of Sweden sought better pay on ...

Two high-profile politicians from the prime minster’s Moderate Party want action taken to end a spate of ‘teen deportations’. Also, Ebba Busch in hot water over Israel remarks.

Every week, The Local invites readers to submit their pictures to our photo competition, to bring our audience together from all parts of Sweden. This week's winner is Narangerel Davaasuren, from ...

Foreign-born people living in Sweden are much more likely to leave and go elsewhere if they have a university-level education ...