Nearly four weeks after closing down, bars and restaurants in five of Switzerland’s six French-speaking regions will be back in business as of December 10th.
Faced with a significant increase of Covid-19 cases and hospitalisations, the Swiss cantons of Jura, Fribourg and Neuchâtel are implementing new restrictions starting on October 23rd.
A court on Friday acquitted a policewoman of wrongdoing for having driven a patrol car last year over 22-year-old Stéphane Chenaux who was lying on the A1 motorway in the canton of Fribourg, killing him.
Safety questions are being raised at a historic tourist attraction in the Swiss city of Fribourg after a 20-year-old man apparently plunged to his death from the medieval Dürrenbuhl tower.
A 62-year-old woman was seriously injured in a freak accident on Sunday when a block of snow smashed through the windscreen of a car from an overhead beam supporting directional signs on the A12 motorway in the canton of Fribourg.
An investigation is under way into a fire on a narrow street in the city of Fribourg’s historic Old Town that severely damaged a bookstore on Tuesday, police said.
It was a miserable moment for a newly renovated cheese dairy in Misery, in the canton of Fribourg, last week when more than 2,000 rounds of gruyère cheese came crashing to the floor after the shelves they were stored on collapsed.
A police car hit and killed a 22-year-old man who was lying in the middle of the A1 motorway near Bussy in the canton of Fribourg in the early hours of Thursday morning.
Two teenagers have died after the car they were travelling in overturned on the road between Fräschels and Chiètres, in the canton of Fribourg, on Thursday evening, cantonal police have said.
A man armed with a gun held up a public transport ticket vending counter at the Bulle train station in the canton of Fribourg and made off with several thousand francs in cash early Monday, according to a report.
Questions are being raised about the death of an inebriated 64-year-old man who fell between a train and the station platform in Lausanne less than two hours hours after police at another Swiss station checked him for being drunk.
A 55-year-old American man died and four others were seriously injured on Tuesday when a hot-air balloon crashed to the ground after hitting a power line in the canton of Fribourg, police said.
A protestant church at Villars in the canton of Vaud was overflowing with mourners on Monday for the funeral of Marie, the 19-year-old woman killed earlier this month by a convicted murderer.
Officers on Tuesday arrested a 36-year-old convicted criminal, alleged to have abducted a 19-year-old woman, after he crashed in a small car following a high-speed chase by police in the canton of Fribourg.
A shooting accident in the canton of Fribourg over the weekend illustrated the hazards of being in the wrong place at the wrong time during hunting season.
Tossing the caber and blowing the bagpipes while cavorting in kilts may seem like incongruous activities in the heart of Switzerland, but they're all part of an annual ritual in St. Ursen.
