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.
The canton of Neuchâtel can go ahead with plans to introduce a minimum wage after Switzerland’s highest court rejected an appeal by opponents of the idea.
Neuchâtel could become the first canton in Switzerland to allow foreigners to stand in cantonal elections if the public votes in favour of the proposal in a September referendum.
Authorities in the canton of Neuchâtel are to bring in new regulations over the size of tombstones and memorials after a two-metre high statue of a naked woman erected in a cemetery in the spring ruffled feathers in the local community.
A 16-month-old baby died in the canton of Neuchâtel after being forgotten by one of its parents who left the child behind in a company car park, a Swiss prosecutor said on Friday.
Neuchâtel cabinet minister Yvan Perrin, former national vice-chairman of the right-wing Swiss People’s Party (UDC) and longtime MP, has resigned after being hospitalized several times following reported “burnout” problems.
Neuchâtel is set to become the first canton in Switzerland to adopt a minimum wage with a rate of 20 francs ($21.75) an hour proposed by the cantonal government.
A 17-year-old Swiss au pair who died in a bizarre subway accident in Madrid, Spain last year was at the controls of the train when it crashed, a media report says.
The head of the municipal government in the watch-making city of La Chaux-de-Fonds in the canton of Neuchâtel was stripped of his responsibilities on Friday over allegations of harassing and “mobbing” employees, according to a media report.
A caver trapped in a water-filled cavern in the canton of Neuchâtel since Wednesday was freed late Friday by a rescue team using divers, the Swiss news agency ATS reported.
A Swiss People’s Party (SVP) politician is facing embarrassment over a scandal involving security guards and employees at a Neuchâtel asylum seekers centre accused of having sex with refugees and of extorting money from them.
Bulat Chagaev, the Chechen businessman charged with dishonest management at the bankrupt Neuchâtel football club he once owned, faces being expelled from Switzerland, according to media reports.
The government of the French-speaking canton of Neuchâtel wants merchants to stop using the English word “sale” for their annual price reduction campaigns.
<p>Prosecutors on Thursday said they arrested the owner of Swiss football club Neuchatel Xamax, Chechen businessman Bulat Chagaev, after the team filed for bankruptcy.</p>
