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Rail traffic delays after goods train derails

National: 12 May 13
Rail traffic in northern Sweden will suffer interruptions this week after a goods train derailed between Älvsbyn and Jörn on Saturday. READ »

Man admits to killing pensioner with an axe

National: 2 Dec 12
A 37-year-old man has confessed to the killing of an elderly dog walker with an axe in Arvidsjaur in northern Sweden on Thursday. READ »

Suspected axe murderer found in Swedish forest

National: 30 Nov 12
The police have arrested a 37-year-old suspected of killing an elderly dog walker with an axe on Thursday in Arvidsjaur, northern Sweden, after police dogs sniffed him out in an isolated forest cabin. READ »

Season's 'first' snowfall hits northern Sweden

Science & Technology: 28 Sep 12
Residents in some areas of northern Sweden woke up to white lawns this morning, as the first snow of the season outside the mountain areas started falling over Sweden on Thursday evening. READ »

German airline to build igloo village in Sweden

Business & Money: 23 Aug 12
A German airline has revealed plans to build an igloo village in northern Sweden, which a spokesman has labelled as an "alternative to Kiruna's Ice Hotel". READ »

Swedish preschool touts 'ice hockey' curriculum

Sport: 7 Mar 12
A preschool in northern Sweden is teaching kids geography, maths – and respect – through a new curriculum inspired by the rough and tumble world of Sweden's top professional hockey league, the Elitserien. READ »

Best schools in Sweden's far north: survey

Education: 8 Sep 10
Six towns in northern Sweden ranked among the top ten municipalities with the best schools in the country, according to a ranking by the Swedish Teachers' Union. READ »

Stockholm swells with millionaire men

Business & Money: 21 Jan 10
Stockholm-area men dominate the ranks of the roughly 40,000 Swedes who earn more than one million kronor ($139,000) per year, fresh statistics show. READ »

Bloggers defend man's 'right to pee in public'

Society: 22 Feb 09
Bloggers have come out in support of a test driver in Arvidsjaur in northern Sweden who has been fined for urinating in public. READ »

Maltese heartthrob sings home Swedish Idol prize

Society: 13 Dec 08
Sweden's Idol 2008 talent show came to a screeching climax on Friday night and left Kevin Borg, a young crooner from Malta who has only lived in Sweden for a year, clutching the champagne. READ »

Proposal to shield car companies from industrial spies

Politics: 30 Sep 08
A Riksdag member from Arjeplog in northern Sweden is proposing a new bill which may restrict one of Sweden’s most cherished rights in order to protect the auto industry from industrial espionage. READ »

Military units given government reprieve

Politics: 14 Sep 08
The government has performed a u-turn and confirmed that no changes to the organization of the Swedish military are necessary. A reprieve has therefore been given to several units threatened with disbandment. READ »

Path clear for world's biggest elk

Society: 18 Jun 08
Politicians in northern Sweden have finally given the all-clear for the construction on the top of a mountain of the world's largest elk. READ »

'Sweden can no longer defend itself'

National: 15 May 08
Armed Forces Supreme Commander Håkan Syrén fears that proposed cuts to the military will diminish its capacity to defend Sweden's borders. READ »

Landowners halt world's largest elk

Society: 13 Dec 07
Two local landowners have halted the march of the world's largest elk by submitting an appeal to Sweden's Environmental Court. READ »

Stockholm may lose Monopoly as city struggles to pass go

National: 23 Oct 07
With voting well underway for Sweden's new city-based edition of popular board game Monopoly, Stockholm is in serious risk of becoming a relatively undesirable address. READ »

'Top-secret' cars in Sweden fire

Science & Technology: 22 Jan 07
A transporter carrying top-secret cars from Germany caught fire on its way to a testing centre in northern Sweden. The owners of the cars "are not happy," say police. READ »

98-year-old woman 'too healthy' for retirement home

Society: 16 Jan 07
At the age of 98, Ida Sällström finally feels that she needs assistance with her everyday activities. But the local council has turned her down. READ »

Four dead in weekend road accidents

National: 22 Jul 06
Four people have died in two car accidents near Skellefteå in northern Sweden. A car hit a truck killing three, while a young Norwegian died on his way to a festival after crashing into a tree. READ »

2,600 government jobs to leave Stockholm

Politics: 26 Jan 05
In an apparent attempt to make up for the local effects of closing down military outposts around the country, the government plans to relocate thousands of jobs away from the capital. READ »

Persson finally pushes Swedish defence cuts through

Politics: 16 Dec 04
Massive cuts in the Swedish armed forces have been approved by the Riksdag. But Prime Minister Göran Persson's concessions to the Left Party have met with a barrage of criticism. READ »

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