In this week’s episode of Sweden in Focus Extra, we hear from the Umeå-based Canadian writer. Mandy Pipher about what it's been like moving to Umeå in northern Sweden..
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SVT's televised immigration debate showed being tough on immigration isn't a straightforward vote-winner any longer. But by focusing almost entirely on refugees, the debate managed to ignore the people who actually migra…
The US and Israel’s lightning attack on Iran has left Sweden with a dilemma. As Nato’s newest member with a large Iranian community – but also a traditional stickler for international law – Sweden has so far chosen to si…
The northern part of Sweden has been basking in an unusually long heatwave this July. But only a few places actually set new heat records.
Forensic work on a human skull.Lyssna: Sweden returns Finnish skulls — but tests reveal not all were FinnishIn 2024, 82 skulls were returned from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm to Finland for reburial. Most of the…
Foreign researchers make up half of all new hires in Swedish higher education, but we want to know what you love and hate the most about working in academia in Sweden.
A two-year-old boy who went missing on Sunday morning at Nyåker, 60 kilometres west of Umeå in northern Sweden, has been found alive.
Adidas Stockholm Marathon, Marathongruppen och The Amazing Society går rakt emot kortformatstrenden – och förklarar varför man vill springa med hjälp av arkivmaterial.
High chance of northern lights due to sunstorm, energy prices set to spike on Tuesday and last year was Sweden's most punctual year for trains since 2022. Here's Sweden's news on Tuesday.
In this week's podcast: Bias against northern Sweden, learn some Lucia songs, Mark Zuckerberg reported to the police in Sweden over Facebook ads, and Swedish migration law updates in 2026.
New Centre leader 'ready to negotiate with both sides', Sweden Democrats call for limits to hate laws, British passports now accepted as proof of ID for citizenship. Here's Sweden's news on Friday.
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Every year, tens of thousands of people sit högskoleprovet, the Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test, the results of which can be used on university applications. Take The Local's English-ified version of the Swedish vocabul…
Sweden's centre-left parties have reached an agreement on how to draft a emergency law halting so-called "teenage deportations".
The Local's reader survey on what life is like for foreign-born researchers in Sweden revealed as many big pluses as major minuses.
Sweden's first citizenship test on civic knowledge was held on August 15th 2026, with close to 1,000 people from across the country sitting for it in the Stockholm area. Now that the results are finally in, what do they…
Tributes paid to youth worker, 24, shot dead at Stockholm sports hall – Sweden issues emergency cybersecurity warning over global PHP crisis. Here's the latest news.
Matilda Molander, head of the green and liberal think tank Fores, shook up Sweden's political world last week with an article outlining the painful concessions the Sweden Democrats might need to make for the Centre Party…
Sweden on Wednesday charged a man described by media as a top gang boss with masterminding a slew of violent attacks, as the country sees a reduction in its decade-long organised crime wave.
Some 44 members of the European Parliament from 15 different EU countries and six political groups have called on EU transport ministers to break the deadlock and get the plan to end the seasonal changing of the clocks m…
The Social Democrats, Centre Party, Green Party, Christian Democrats, and Liberals have agreed to govern Region Stockholm together.
