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.
Several Swiss cantons have announced tougher measures to fight the spread of Covid-19, going further than the rules implemented by the Federal Council.
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.
Many in the town of Moutier have long sought to exit the canton of Bern and join neighbouring Jura. After a 2017 election was ruled invalid, the mayor has proposed another vote for mid-2020.
From Aargau to Zurich, we take a whistle-stop trip around the highlights for Switzerland's 26 cantons vising castles, lakes and mountains along the way.
Three months after the town of Moutier voted to leave the canton of Bern and join the Jura, two neighbouring communes have rejected a plan to follow suit.
The small commune of Belprahon could become the second village to quit the canton of Bern and join the Jura when its 300 residents vote on the issue on September 17th.
On June 18th the people of Moutier, a commune in the Jura mountains, will vote on whether to remain in the canton of Bern or leave it to join the canton of Jura instead. The Local looks back at the history of the hugely sensitive ‘Jura question’ that has led to this important vote.
The A16 motorway across the Jura mountains will finally be completed with the inauguration of the final section on Monday, reported news agencies on Friday.
Elderly people living in care homes in the canton of Jura took part in an Olympics-style event on Tuesday involving walking frame races and a darts competition.
Refugees settled in the Swiss Jura can volunteer to undertake unpaid farming work this summer as part of a pilot programme aiming to help them integrate.
The Swiss army has concluded its mission to airlift water to thirsty cows in the Jura and Vaud Alps after delivering 1,840 tons of water during the period of July 20th to August 19th, authorities have said.
A paraglider spent more than three hours dangling from high-voltage power cables on Wednesday afternoon after being blown off course by a strong wind, Jura cantonal police reported.
A woman passenger died and four people were injured in a two-car collision in a tunnel of the A16 motorway in the canton of Jura on Sunday afternoon, police said.
While voters in Basel-City and Basel-Country are set to vote later this month on a proposal to merge the two cantons, a former federal administration official is calling for more drastic measures to reduce the number of Swiss cantons.
Foreigners may be allowed to become local councillors in the canton of Jura if the population votes in favour of an extension of political rights for expat residents in a referendum on September 28th.
