House-hunters in Switzerland take on average five months to find somewhere to live, according to a survey published on Monday by an online comparison site.
Authorities who tolerated a homeless man living in a publicly owned warehouse in the centre of a Lausanne suburb are now having second thoughts after he died in a fire that broke out on Sunday night.
A plan to build a 33-storey tower as part of a new neighbourhood in a suburb on the outskirts of Lausanne moved a step closer to reality after voters on the weekend approved the 500-million-franc mixed residential and commercial development project.
The city of Lausanne has set an April 13th date for a referendum on whether a proposed 27-storey tower block will go ahead in a low-rise neighbourhood.
Former world champion Tyson Gay celebrated the Fourth of July by cruising to victory in the 100 metres in 9.79 seconds at Thursday night's Diamond League Athletissima meet in Lausanne.
A huge trove of photographs taken over half a century by Switzerland's René Burri, known for his iconic portrait of cigar-smoking revolutionary Che Guevara, is to be donated to a museum in Lausanne, officials said on Monday.
Hundreds of demonstrators were standing off with riot police on Monday night outside a Lausanne hotel where a commodities conference organized by the Financial Times got under way.
"Crocodile Dundee" star Paul Hogan has taken legal action in a US court to recover $34 million held in a Swiss bank account which he alleges has been misappropriated, reports said Monday.
Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) is giving early notice of timetable and route changes starting in December 2015 and lasting for 10 years during major construction work to upgrade rail facilities around Lausanne.
Up to 150 hip-hop party-goers at a Lausanne nightclub fought in a brawl that spilled out into city streets early Sunday morning before officers arrived in force to subdue the combatants, police said.
The results of a probe into claims Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned by polonium will not be known until the end of May at the earliest, the Swiss lab carrying out the tests says.
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich has the best reputation of all universities in continental Europe, according to a new world ranking.
The Local is launching My Switzerland, a series of interviews with residents about their favourite haunts, sights and eateries. This week we talk to Sarah Decorvet, co-founder of The Lausanne Guide, which offers insider life and style tips to expats.
The International Olympic Committee headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland were partially flooded Sunday after an old water pipe burst, damaging archives and knocking out communications, the organization said.
