Only one ambulance was on duty on Tuesday in an area covering hundreds of thousands of households in Stockholm city centre, a nurse from the central ambulance station warns.

This week's episode of Sweden in Focus Extra for Membership+ poses some seriously tricky Swedish language questions.

Prison guard dies after setting fire to himself, Saab wins 1.8 billion kronor order, and other news from Sweden on Wednesday.

Sweden has been told to brace for a downpour which may see more than one month’s worth of rain fall in less than 24 hours as it batters south-eastern parts of the country.

Swedish summers are often wet, with downpours more common during the warmer months. Who is responsible if your home floods, ...

One in ten children in Sweden cannot swim, Sweden gets five goods off EU retaliatory tariffs, and other news from Sweden on ...

The Local sent a freedom of information request to the Swedish Public Employment Service for the list of 152 job titles reported to the Migration Agency as meeting the criteria for exemption from a ...

Sweden's Migration Agency is this week set to publish a list of the jobs which could potentially be exempted from a new ...

Differing interest rates between Sweden's banks mean that mortgage holders could save thousands of kronor per year by ...

Warm temperatures over the last two weeks have led many Swedes to head to the nearest lake or beach to cool off.

Drownings spike in hot weather, mortgage holders can save thousands by switching bank and highest number of firefighting ...

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