Healthcare strike under way as Swedish nurses refuse overtime, mortgage giant predicts lower interest rates from next month, ...

Sweden is often rated as a difficult country to make friends in. We asked those who've been there, done that – or in other words, The Local's readers – how they met their closest friends in Sweden.

Sweden's main employers' group has attacked a proposal to exempt some jobs from a minimum salary for work permits, saying ...

Several masked men, described by anti-racism magazine Expo as "a group of Nazis" carried out the attack at an event organised ...

Several masked men burst into a Stockholm theatre on Wednesday night and set off smoke bombs during an anti-fascism event, ...

A nationwide healthcare strike involving tens of thousands of Swedish nurses and midwives got under way on Thursday afternoon ...

Planning a train journey in Sweden this summer? It's now possible to book train tickets for all dates up until September 1st, ...

Politicians in the Swedish city of Malmö have decided where the first three stops will be if a new Öresund Metro is built, ...

If you're thinking of quitting the booze, now may be a good time, as Sweden may run low on alcohol in just a few days.

Swedish party leaders condemn attack on anti-fascism meeting, controversial stop-and-search zone law comes into force, and healthcare strike set to break out at 4pm on Thursday unless a deal is struck ...

A new analysis by the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise has found that 51 percent of the labour migrants likely to be ...

Police investigate false bomb alarm in Lund, more than one in ten foreigners in Sweden don't have a close friend, sixth ...