Jämtland

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Swedes reach new peak in mountains of debt

Business & Money: 29 Dec 09
Swedes are further in the red with the national debt collection agency than ever before, with accumulated debts currently totalling 64 billion kronor ($9 billion). READ »

Calm weather expected for Christmas Day

Science & Technology: 25 Dec 09
A yuletide calm has settled over Sweden for Christmas, both on the roads and in the skies. READ »

Workers pick Sweden's shrubs and data hubs

Jobs: 15 Dec 09
Thai berry pickers and Indian IT experts have been the primary recipients of work permits since Sweden's new labour force immigration laws came into force a year ago. READ »

White Christmas likely as temperatures plunge

Science & Technology: 14 Dec 09
Blowing snow and frigid temperatures are expected to sweep down from northern Sweden on Wednesday, bringing the first taste of winter weather to much of the southern half of the country. READ »

Health workers' nitrous oxide stunt no laughing matter

Society: 8 Dec 09
Five health sector employees from Östersund in northern Sweden may lose their jobs following a staff party last week that got out of control. READ »

Stockholm prison island hostel lands tourist group's top prize

Society: 25 Nov 09
A former prison on the outskirts of downtown Stockholm has been honoured as the 2009 hostel of the year by the Swedish Tourist Association. READ »

Snow storms strike in northern Sweden

National: 7 Oct 09
Heavy overnight snowfalls have been playing havoc with traffic conditions in inland areas of northern Norrland on Wednesday morning. READ »

Swedish parents emerge victorious in bid to name son 'Q'

Society: 30 Sep 09
Overturning two previous rulings by lower courts, the Swedish Supreme Administrative Court has awarded two parents from central Sweden the right to name their son Q. READ »

Milk price hike to save dairy farmers

Business & Money: 31 Aug 09
Dairy company Milko will raise the price of milk next week by one krona ($0.14) in order to save the livelihoods of dairy farmers. READ »

Wounded bear attacks hunter

Society: 31 Aug 09
A hunter in northern Sweden was bitten on the arm on Sunday by an onrushing bear that had already survived two gunshots. "It was if the bear was running even though it was already dead," said hunter Omar Jonsson. READ »

Rare owl convalescing in southern Sweden

Science & Technology: 26 Apr 09
A Lapland Owl was found injured in a ditch in southern Sweden in March. The species is very rare in these parts and the bird is now convalescing after receiving hospital treatment. READ »

Agencies often monitor workers' net habits

Science & Technology: 22 Apr 09
A majority of Sweden’s public sector employers monitor their workers’ internet surfing habits, a new survey shows. READ »

Facebook off limits for county employees

Science & Technology: 20 Apr 09
The Jämtland County Council in western Sweden has decided to ban its employees from using office computers to visit the Facebook social networking website. READ »

What's on in Sweden: April 17 - 23

Lifestyle: 15 Apr 09
What's on in Sweden: Tina Turner & football derby in Stockholm; Zulu 9.30 & Emilie Autumn (US) in Gothenburg; The Only Ones (UK) in Malmö. READ »

Carnegie in agreement with real estate tycoon

Business & Money: 17 Mar 09
Swedish financier Maths O Sundqvist has reached an agreement with his main creditor, investment bank Carnegie, which will now assume control of his business empire. READ »

Woman convicted for seducing Swedish teen

National: 11 Feb 09
A 28-year-old Swedish woman has been sentenced to six months in prison for having forced a boy under the age of 15 to have sex with her. READ »

Winter rail destinations: Åre

Travel: 10 Feb 09
With more than 300,000 visitors every year Åre, Sweden's most popular ski destination has enough to tempt even the most ardent Alpine resort fan. READ »

Camera ban hinders hunt for Swedish sea monster

Science & Technology: 31 Jan 09
Sweden's legendary Great Lake Sea Monster (Storsjöodjuret) remains the focus of photographers hunting for its image despite a Jämtland county council order banning cameras by the lake. READ »

Skiing on a shoestring in Åre

Travel: 22 Jan 09
With money troubles weighing heavier on Sweden than a fresh fall of snow, Jennifer Heape headed to the Åre ski resort to check out a more frugal alternative to the typical foreign alpine getaway. READ »

Swedish couple denied right to name their son Q

Society: 22 Jan 09
Parents of a boy in Jämtland in northwestern Sweden have been told they cannot name their son Q, following a ruling by the administrative court of appeal. READ »

Man dies as snowmobile goes through the ice

National: 18 Jan 09
A 65-year-old man died as a result of his snowmobile crashing through thin ice on a lake near Rättvik in central Sweden on Saturday evening. One of several accidents across the country over the weekend. READ »

Mogul's losses could cost Handelsbanken millions

Business & Money: 8 Jan 09
The stock deals by finance and real estate tycoon Maths O. Sundqvist which brought down the Carnegie investment bank may also end up costing Handelsbanken close to one billion kronor ($127 million). READ »

Alphabet soup: Sweden’s many languages

Analysis & Opinion: 8 Jan 09
Learning Swedish is a noble pursuit. When in Rome and all that. But mastering the majority mother tongue is only the beginning, as many more languages loom large on the horizon, writes Alec Forss. READ »

Icy road warning on Christmas Day

Science & Technology: 25 Dec 08
Weather forecasters in Sweden are warning drivers of icy and treacherous conditions on Christmas morning. READ »

Thousands lack power after heavy snow

National: 13 Dec 08
After heavy snowfalls across Sweden on Friday thousands of people were left without electricity on Saturday morning. Icy road conditions were forecast for Saturday in Stockholm and northern areas. READ »

Swedish town and ski resort for sale

Society: 26 Nov 08
Ski-loving real estate investors interested in rubbing elbows with royalty may want to venture north to the Swedish village of Storlien, which is on the market for 365 million kronor ($45.6 million). READ »

The Lowdown: Quality Swedish beer

Lifestyle: 17 Nov 08
Sweden is not a country renowned for its beers. But when Darren Packman has a nose around, he finds there's more to the country's brewers than meets the gut on a typical night out. READ »

Three die in car crash in northern Sweden

National: 16 Nov 08
Three young people were killed in a car accident on the E14 motorway in Jämtland in northern Sweden in the early hours of Sunday morning. READ »

Storm warnings in northern Sweden

National: 28 Sep 08
Areas of nothern Sweden were hit by strong winds and storm conditions on Sunday morning. Meteorological agency SMHI forecasts continued stormy weather on Sunday. READ »

Winter rail destinations: Sveg/Vemdalen

Travel: 18 Sep 08
Located in the central heartland of Sweden, Sveg is the gateway to Vemdalen, Sweden’s second largest ski area, which boasts some of the most varied skiing facilities in the country. READ »

Sharp rise in Swedish Nazi groups

National: 2 Sep 08
Locally-based violent groups of Nazis are sprouting up in more and more places around Sweden, new figures show. READ »

Swedish sea monster 'caught on film'

Society: 28 Aug 08
Filmmakers claim to have captured images of Sweden’s legendary Great Lake Sea Monster (Storsjöodjuret). READ »

Man hopitalized in grocery store axe attack

National: 27 Aug 08
One person was hospitalized on Wednesday after a man suddenly began swinging an axe inside a grocery store in Östersund in northern Sweden. READ »

Swedish food aims to knock France off its perch

Society: 22 Jul 08
The Swedish government announced a new vision on Tuesday aiming to knock France off its pedestal and establish Sweden as haute cuisine leader of the world. READ »

'If you have sick children, move out of Stockholm'

Society: 13 Jul 08
Child healthcare in Stockholm has declined to the levels of the 1950s, according to a leading paediatrician, who advises families with sick children to move out of the Swedish capital. READ »

Drunken disorder plagues Midsummer

National: 21 Jun 08
Midsummer celebrations were typified by drunken revelry, fighting, assault, drink driving, an alleged rape and three shootings. Calmer than usual, police report. READ »

Winter's return causes confusion

National: 18 May 08
Heavy snow falls were seen in many parts of northern Sweden on Saturday as winter made a comeback. READ »

Green cars hit record highs

Business & Money: 16 May 08
Green is the new black as sales of environmentally friendly cars hit the roof in Sweden. READ »

Snow replaces May heatwave

National: 15 May 08
Meteorological agency SMHI has issued a weather warning for central and northern Sweden, with heavy snowfalls forecast for Thursday night and Friday morning. READ »

Flooding threatens northern Sweden

National: 7 May 08
The national weather service, SMHI, has issued a warning for extremely strong currents in streams near the coast in southern Norrbotten in northern Sweden. READ »

Sweden Democrats call for end to Sami privileges

Politics: 3 May 08
The Sweden Democrats have called for an end to privileges enjoyed by Sami reindeer herders at their annual party congress which began in Karlstad on Friday. READ »

Police officers threatened with dismissal for practical joke

Society: 25 Apr 08
Two police officers in northern Sweden are facing criminal charges after stealing a road sign as part of a practical joke. READ »

State to use old couple's cash to pay thieves' debts

National: 17 Apr 08
It may seem obvious that a robber’s loot be returned to its rightful owner once the crook is apprehended, but an elderly Swedish couple has learned that things aren't quite so simple. READ »

Health workers union steps up strike pressure

Business & Money: 16 Apr 08
The Swedish Association of Health Professionals (Vårdförbundet) approved an additional round of industrial action on Wednesday. READ »

Train disruption after Sollentuna garage fire

National: 6 Apr 08
A fire in a garage in Sollentuna continues to caused disruption to train services north of Stockholm on Sunday. READ »

Swedish women close to bottom of EU business start-up rankings

Business & Money: 18 Feb 08
While Sweden usually ranks high in matters of gender equity, a new study reveals an exception when to comes to business. READ »

Swedish neo-Nazis become more violent

National: 9 Feb 08
Sweden's three largest neo-Nazi groups were busy in 2007 conducting 1,142 activities. The Security Service warns that neo-Nazis are becoming more violent. READ »

Minister: healthcare guarantee 'not working'

National: 6 Feb 08
Health Minister Göran Hägglund has criticized long wait times at Swedish hospitals. READ »

More kids living with single dads

Society: 7 Dec 07
It is becoming ever more common for children in Sweden to live with single fathers, new figures have shown. READ »

Swedish elks repopulate Scotland

National: 20 Nov 07
Two Swedish elks - or moose as they are also known - are to be taken to Scotland in an attempt to reintroduce the species in Britain. READ »

Man arrested for shooting sleeping builder

National: 18 Nov 07
A man has been arrested on suspicion of shooting a builder dead in his bed near Stockholm in August. READ »

Bear attacks pair of hunters

National: 14 Oct 07
A bear attacked and injured two elk hunters in northern Sweden on Sunday, police said, in the same region where a hunter was killed last week. READ »

Snow warning issued for central Sweden

National: 11 Oct 07
Many parts of central Sweden are bracing themselves for the first snow of the season, with motorists warned to expect slippery conditions. READ »

Bear kills elk hunter

National: 8 Oct 07
Police believe that a man in his fifties found dead in northern Sweden on Monday morning was most likely killed by a bear. READ »

Heroin addicts 'let down by healthcare'

Society: 10 Sep 07
Heroin users in Sweden are not getting the treatment they need, with nine out of ten local authorities not providing adequate specialist care, according to a critical new report. READ »

First bear killed in hunting season

National: 21 Aug 07
The first bear has been killed in Sweden's bear hunting season, which got underway on Tuesday morning. A rising bear population in Sweden has led to raised hunting quotas this year. READ »

Swedish house prices continue to rise

National: 16 Jul 07
The average Swedish house has increased in value by 9 percent in the last twelve months. In the last quarter alone the average increase across the country was 4 percent, according to Statistics Sweden. READ »

June surge for Swedish booze sales

Business & Money: 9 Jul 07
Systembolaget's sales continued to increase in June. Compared to the same month last year, sales at Sweden's state-owned alcohol retailer climbed 7.4 percent when measured in alcohol volume. READ »

Five hurt in fairground accident

National: 24 Jun 07
Five people were taken to hospital in the small hours of Sunday morning after an accident at a funfair in Oviken, south west of Östersund. READ »

Accidents and drunkenness following Midsummer parties

National: 23 Jun 07
A large number of drunk drivers were caught by police on Friday night, many of them driving back from Midsummer parties. Two fatal boat accidents marred what police said was otherwise a relatively peaceful night. READ »

Fire guts swimming pool

National: 10 Jun 07
A fire at a sports complex in northern Sweden on Saturday night has left a swimming pool building completely destroyed. READ »

Swedish politician arrested in Germany

National: 5 Jun 07
A local councillor from northern Sweden has been arrested in Germany for a robbery allegedly committed in Croatia in 1991. READ »

Red Cross reports ad calling Stockholmers 'queens'

Society: 9 May 07
'Mire of Queens' - that's what many in northern Sweden call Stockholm, alluding to the capital's supposedly effeminate male population. Discrimination, the Red Cross says. READ »

Governor cleared of bribery charges

Politics: 3 Apr 07
The Court of Appeal has found Maggi Mikaelsson, Jämtland's county governor, not guilty of accepting bribes. The head of forestry company SCA has also been cleared. READ »

Booze confiscated from thirsty 'fisherman'

National: 2 Apr 07
A Swedish man caught carrying record quantities of alcohol into Norway told customs officers that he needed the booze to moisten his throat on a forthcoming fishing trip. READ »

Storm knocks out rail service

National: 10 Jan 07
An overnight storm has left many Swedish households without electricity, while rail traffic has come to a standstill in large parts of the country. READ »

December 'warmest since 1756'

National: 30 Dec 06
December 2006 will go down in history as the warmest since records began in 1756, Swedish meteorologists have said. READ »

Governor takes time out after elk hunt conviction

Politics: 15 Nov 06
Jämtland county governor Maggi Mikaelsson has decided to take time out after being convicted of bribery. Local government minister Mats Odell says she will stay away from her job until a final decision has been made in her case. READ »

Left Party governor took elk hunt bribe

Politics: 14 Nov 06
A county governor who went on an elk hunt hosted by forestry company SCA has been convicted of accepting bribes. Both the governor, Maggi Mikaelsson, and SCA officials pleaded innocent. READ »

Filmmaker tells of Russia bear attack

National: 27 Oct 06
Swedish wildlife filmmaker Erik Fernström tells The Local about being attacked by a bear while shooting a new documentary in Russia. "He was pushing the limits - so were we," he said. READ »

'Sweden's worst storms since Gudrun' expected

Society: 26 Oct 06
Meteorologists are warning that storms expected to hit Sweden in the next 24 hours could be the worst since Gudrun, which laid waste to vast expanses of woodland and left 341,000 homes in southern Sweden without power. READ »

Snow brings chaos to northern Sweden

National: 20 Oct 06
Heavy snowfall in northern Sweden is continuing for a second day - and more is expected over the weekend, according to forecasts. READ »

Swedish beer: things can only get better

Lifestyle: 25 Aug 06
There is more to Swedish beer than mass-produced lager. Eddie de Oliveira reports that a new wave of microbreweries are in danger of giving Swedish beer a good name. READ »

Sweden attracts more tourists

Business & Money: 16 Aug 06
During the first six months of 2006 the number of overnight stays at Swedish hotels, cottages and youth hostels increased by six percent. READ »

House prices up again

Society: 11 Jul 06
Buying your own piece of Swedish real estate is still getting more expensive. House prices went up 3 percent between the first and the second quarter, according to new figures. READ »

Summer house prices shoot up

Society: 5 Jul 06
Prices for Swedish summer houses have shot up in the past six months, reaching 1.1 million in Blekinge and 4.6 million on Lidingö, near Stockholm. READ »

Two dead in Midsummer traffic

National: 24 Jun 06
Two men, aged 23 and 27 years old, have so far died in Sweden's Midsummer traffic. But despite these and other accidents across the country, police say that the traffic has been unusually calm. READ »

Anal massage man to be prosecuted

Society: 19 Jun 06
A male masseur in northwest Sweden is to be prosecuted for assault after claims that he massaged parts of their bodies that were not suffering aches. READ »

Hot spell causes forest fires

National: 14 Jun 06
Forest fires have been burning in several parts of Sweden, caused largely by the recent hot, dry weather. READ »

Tourist offices around Sweden

Travel: 3 May 06
A handy list of Sweden's tourist offices, along with their phone numbers, email addresses and web sites. READ »

Man dies in Åre avalanche

National: 30 Mar 06
A man in his 30s is reported dead after an avalanche in the Swedish ski resort of Åre swept across an off-piste area on Thursday. READ »

House prices continue to rise

Society: 10 Feb 06
Prices of houses and apartments have continued to rise over the past few months, with the effects of the interest rate rise not yet showing up in the statistics. Rises were greatest in Gothenburg, Stockholm and Malmö. READ »

Baylan and Östros rise to party leadership

Politics: 1 Nov 05
Schools minister Ibrahim Baylan and trade minister Thomas Östros are voted onto the Social Democrats' Executive Committee - but Gothenburg will no longer be represented at the top table. READ »

Swedish house prices soar to new high

National: 10 Aug 05
More figures for the boffins at Sweden's central bank to chew on as they set interest rates: Swedish house prices rose by four percent in the last three months, and in one area they were up twelve percent. READ »

Swedish food prices continue to fall

National: 7 Jul 05
Stockholmers can no longer bemoan the cost of herring and meatballs: for years the dearest place to buy food in Sweden, the capital is now the eleventh cheapest region in the country. READ »

Young Social Democrats face fraud inquiry

Politics: 22 Mar 05
An increasing number of Sweden's Young Social Democrat (SSU) "chapters" are now under investigation by the police after it was revealed that they have been artificially inflating their membership numbers to secure more state funding. READ »

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