Swedes have a rich and tradition of coining creative compound words to label and ridicule one another -- perhaps reflecting a ...

Sweden's government will next year bring in a new subsidy for dental care which will more than halve the average annual cost ...

The Swedish Migration Agency is hoping to clear its backlog of four-year-old citizenship cases by the end of this year after ...

Traffic over the Öresund Bridge reached record levels in the first half of 2025, as residents of Sweden sought better pay on ...

Two high-profile politicians from the prime minster’s Moderate Party want action taken to end a spate of ‘teen deportations’. Also, Ebba Busch in hot water over Israel remarks.

Every week, The Local invites readers to submit their pictures to our photo competition, to bring our audience together from all parts of Sweden. This week's winner is Narangerel Davaasuren, from ...

Foreign-born people living in Sweden are much more likely to leave and go elsewhere if they have a university-level education ...

Apartment prices may have fallen this summer but Swedish households still expect property prices to rise in the coming year.

After several sluggish years, the Swedish krona finally strengthened in 2025, improving the purchasing power of travellers ...

The Local's Nordic Editor Richard Orange rounds up the biggest stories of the week in our Inside Sweden newsletter... and ...

This week: the post-summer return to work, tensions over Israel, and a row over the PM's use of ChatGPT. For Membership+ ...

Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö all have free culture festivals coming up in the next few weeks. Here we pick out a few of the highlights from this year’s bulging schedules.