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 ...

This week's episode of Sweden in Focus Extra for Membership+ subscribers features an interview with Samaneh Khaef, a ...

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

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

The northern part of Sweden has been basking in an unusually long heatwave this July. But only a few places actually set new ...

You'll often hear that networking is essential for getting a job in Sweden, and it sometimes is. But a majority of readers ...

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 ...

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

The US battery startup Lyten on Thursday announced that it had agreed to buy the Skellefteå and Västerås factories of the ...