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March in Sweden: Slush, bears and skiing royals

Lifestyle: 17 Mar 10
The Year in Sweden - March: Journalist Kim Loughran sketches a month by month account of the country he has called home ever since his accidental migration in 1966. READ »

Spring held at bay as deer starve

National: 7 Mar 10
The worst winter in years lingers on, with the nation dealing with an avalanche warning in mountain ski areas, train delays, stranded ferries in the icy Baltic, and deer dying from a lack of available food. READ »

One thousand pigs survive barn roof collapse

National: 7 Feb 10
For weeks Swedes have staggered through the deep freeze amid transport delays, icy roadways and collapsed roofs. Now, even pigs had a roof cave in on them. READ »

Sweden preps for post-hunt wolf imports

National: 28 Jan 10
The government on Thursday ordered the Board of Agriculture to prepare for the active import of foreign wolves into Sweden from the east on the heels of a controversial wolf hunt carried out earlier this year. READ »

Sweden's minorities struggle with health

Society: 18 Jan 10
Sweden's minorities have more health problems than the population as a whole, according to a new study examining the respective health situations of the country's Jews, Romanies, Sweden Finns, Sami and Tornedalians. READ »

Repairman's vacation keeps Swedish town off the internet

Society: 29 Dec 09
An internet technician’s holiday travels have left a remote mountain village in northern Sweden cut off from the internet, causing a dent in the town’s winter tourism bookings. READ »

What's On in Sweden: December 18th - 24th

Lifestyle: 17 Dec 09
What’s on in Sweden: Eddie Izzard strips all over Sweden, Rave photos in Stockholm, Turkish puppetry in Gothenburg and a Synthfest in Malmö. READ »

Five festive pointers for the perfect Swedish Christmas

Lifestyle: 8 Dec 09
It’s that time of year when people are starting to flippantly use the C-word. Or Jul as it is known in Sweden. But what are the secret ingredients to the perfect Swedish Christmas? Ben Kersley investigates. READ »

Elk, not husband, killed Swedish woman: police

Society: 1 Dec 09
A Swedish man suspected of killing his 63-year-old wife has been exonerated after forensic analysis revealed the woman’s death was caused by an elk. READ »

December in Sweden: From candle-head girls to jellied veal

Lifestyle: 1 Dec 09
The Year in Sweden - December: Journalist Kim Loughran sketches a month by month account of the country he has called home ever since his accidental migration in 1966. READ »

Swedish town crowns Hong Kong man Santa of the Year

Society: 30 Nov 09
A Hong Kong man’s porridge eating skills helped him claim victory at the 2009 Santa Games in Gällivare in northern Sweden on Sunday. READ »

Police consider death by elk in murder case

National: 28 Nov 09
A former murder investigation has been reviewed by police who now suspect a 63-year-old woman found dead in Småland, southern Sweden, last year was killed by an elk. READ »

Reindeer herd drowns in icy Lapland waters

National: 13 Nov 09
More than 400 reindeer have drowned in a river in Jokkmokk in northern Sweden after thin surface ice cracked while the herd were moving to their winter pastures. READ »

More freedom proposed for Sami reindeer herders

Politics: 16 Sep 09
Sweden’s indigenous Sami population should be granted more freedom to pursue activities other than reindeer herding, according to findings presented on Wednesday by a government appointed working group. READ »

Åland: a gem in Stockholm's back yard

Travel: 21 Jul 09
Alannah Eames visits Finland's Swedish-speaking Åland islands, and finds gorgeous scenery, great food and a fascinating history. READ »

Man butted by deer at Stockholm supermarket

National: 28 Mar 09
A man was butted by an unexpected assailant while shopping at his local supermarket in a Stockholm suburb on Friday - a roebuck deer. READ »

Sweden’s national parks celebrate 100 Years

Travel: 27 Feb 09
Scattered across Sweden's vast landscape are the oldest and some of the finest national parks in Europe. Alec Forss charts their history and picks out five of the best. READ »

Modern methods pit reindeer herders against animal activists

Lifestyle: 13 Feb 09
Far from the idyllic image of lone herders skiing after their reindeer, indigenous Samis in Sweden's far north today use snowmobiles and other vehicles, giving rise to an animal welfare campaign as far away as Britain, writes AFP's Nina Larson. READ »

Ice Church in Swedish Lappland offers white winterland wedding

Dating: 11 Feb 09
With Valentine's Day fast approaching, AFP's Nina Larson witnesses wedding ceremonies performed in a Swedish winter wonderland. READ »

Officials struggle with Swedish mining town's relocation

Lifestyle: 5 Feb 09
As miners continue to chip away at the chunk of iron sitting directly beneath Kiruna in northern Sweden, the AFP’s Nina Larson examines the challenges that come with relocating an entire town. READ »

Wild boar car crashes cost more than elk wrecks: Swedish study

Business & Money: 26 Jan 09
A car collision with a wild boar is 27 percent costlier than running into an elk, a new Swedish study has revealed. READ »

What's on in Sweden: December 19 - 25

Lifestyle: 18 Dec 08
What's on in Sweden: December 19th - 25th. Magic Numbers and Clash tribute in Stockholm; Polar exhibition and Woody West's Christmas Bash in Gothenburg; magical organic market near Malmö READ »

What's on in Sweden: December 12 - 18

Lifestyle: 11 Dec 08
What's on in Sweden: December 12th - 18th. Lucia and Lykke Li in Stockholm; Harlem Gospel and Streetdance in Gothenburg; world class jazz in Malmö. READ »

Campsite brawl spills over to nearby highway

National: 30 Jul 08
What started as a scuffle at a campground in southern Sweden Tuesday night ended with multiple car wrecks and six people sent to hospital. READ »

Wild animals a growing road menace

National: 25 Jul 08
Accidents involving wild animals on Sweden's roads continues to rise, a new survey shows. READ »

Cremain spreading angers Sami herders

Society: 5 Jul 08
Sami reindeer herders in northern Sweden have complained at the growing trend of spreading the cremated remains of dead relatives in the mountains. READ »

Elk safari Swedish style, with a green conscience

Travel: 4 Jul 08
Eco-tourism abounds in the wilds of Sweden, with elk safaris in particular attracting locals and foreigners alike, writes AFP's Francis Kohn. READ »

Sweden gears up for VIVA World Cup

Sport: 1 Jul 08
As Europe finally calms down after a month of football fever, the small town of Gällivare is gearing up to host a smaller, but far more international football competition, Ben Kersley reports. READ »

Where have all the Sami gone?

Analysis & Opinion: 25 Jun 08
You can live in Stockholm, Gothenburg or Malmö your whole life and still know almost nothing about the Sami, the indigenous people of Sweden, writes David Bartal. READ »

Swedish diver tells of brush with dragon

National: 8 Jun 08
A Swedish diver who spent two nights marooned on an Indonesian island has told how she had to fight off an aggressive komodo dragon. READ »

The enchanted forest on Stockholm's doorstep

Travel: 25 May 08
Sweden might be covered in trees, but Tyresta National Park is a forest with a difference. Alec Forss explores a primeval landscape a stone's throw from the capital. READ »

A northern adventure: Europe’s last wilderness

Travel: 14 May 08
From hikes across mountains with Sami reindeer herders to tours of Europe's only civilian space centre, northern Sweden offers new experiences for adventurous travellers. READ »

Swedish island paradise for sale

Travel: 9 May 08
Fancy your very own Swedish island? Then the island of Hanö off the Blekinge coast in south-east Sweden may be what you are looking for. READ »

Man skins deer’s head in front of pre-school

National: 8 May 08
Shocked pre-schoolers witnessed a man skin a deer’s head outside their pre-school in Sundsvall in northern Sweden on Wednesday afternoon. 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 »

Reindeer herder’s lasso toss saves ice fishing Swede

National: 21 Apr 08
When the ice started crumbling beneath him, Mikael Vikström thought his ice fishing days were over until a quick-thinking reindeer herder happened to pass by. READ »

Sami herders in space rocket near miss

National: 19 Apr 08
Two Sami reindeer herders were narrowly missed by a falling space rocket launched from the Esrange space station in the beginning of April. READ »

Go See The Blue Koala

Lifestyle: 2 Apr 08
English-speaking theatre goers in Stockholm can treat themselves to something relatively rare this month at the Boulevard Theatre on Södermalm: live theatre in English. READ »

Reindeer dies of snowmobile stress

National: 31 Mar 08
A reindeer has died from stress-related injuries after being tormented by one or more snowmobile drivers in northern Sweden READ »

Samis sour over time lost to Kiruna move

Business & Money: 24 Mar 08
Two Sami villages in northern Sweden have been denied compensation for time spent on planning for the relocation of Kiruna. READ »

Michelin-starred restaurants in Gothenburg

Lifestyle: 3 Mar 08
Matt O'Leary discovers there is plenty of fine dining to be had in a city not always associated with gourmet grub. READ »

Säpo bodyguard 'shot and missed' reindeer

National: 25 Feb 08
Deputy Prime Minister Maud Olofsson’s bodyguards made a failed attempt on Monday afternoon to put down two reindeer that had been injured in a collision with a car. READ »

Running amok in Jokkmokk

Travel: 13 Feb 08
Alec Forss heads to the Arctic Circle to take in Sami culture and reindeer games at the world’s coldest winter market in Jokkmokk. READ »

Reindeer catastrophe overshadows Sami national day

Society: 5 Feb 08
The Sami population of Lappland are busily getting ready for the party of the year, with clothes fit for the Milan catwalks being sewn. Meanwhile catastrophe looms for the reindeer. READ »

Something for the Weekend: The Local's Guide to What's On

Lifestyle: 20 Dec 07
Provocative poses from ex-Big Brother star Carolina Gynning in Malmö, Christmas Blues and Soul in Stockholm and Christmas markets just about everywhere in The Local's weekend guide. READ »

Santa's elves get busy at Sweden's post office

Lifestyle: 19 Dec 07
Every year Sweden's post office receives more than 100,000 letters from children all over the world addressed to Santa. Every letter-writer gets a response, writes Majsan Boström. READ »

Something for the Weekend: The Local's Guide to What's On

Lifestyle: 13 Dec 07
Warm up for Christmas Swedish style, head to a traditional English carol service or escape from the Yuletide rush altogether. We've got the weekend sorted. READ »

Kyrgyzstan starts hunt for Santa

National: 10 Dec 07
Tourist chiefs in Kyrgyzstan have launched a contest to track down Father Christmas after Swedish experts said he lived in the Central Asian republic. READ »

Something for the Weekend: The Local's Guide to What's On

Lifestyle: 7 Dec 07
Want to get in the Christmas spirit this weekend? Or dying to escape the whole thing? Whatever you fancy, we've got some ideas. READ »

Santa lives in Kyrgystan - Swedish researchers

Society: 3 Dec 07
Swedish researchers have bad news for the the Finns – they have concluded that Santa cannot possibly live in northern Finland. READ »

Something for the Weekend: The Local's Guide to What's On

Lifestyle: 30 Nov 07
Fancy taking in a traditional Swedish Christmas market? Or what about an evening of jazz in Stockholm? All this and more in our weekly guide to what's on in Sweden's main cities this weekend. READ »

Aussie is Sweden's Santa champion

Society: 26 Nov 07
Australian man trains for Santa Games with Rudolph the red-nosed kangaroo. READ »

Reindeer herders march on Stockholm

Society: 23 Nov 07
Sami reindeer herders are calling on Sweden to take action against Norway. READ »

'Forget the makeover - give me chocolate'

Lifestyle: 26 Oct 07
Tipping Point: When even a full emergency makeover in one of Stockholm's largest department stores left Kathleen Harman looking like a cross between Posh Spice and Cruella DeVille, there was only one option left: chocolate. READ »

Sweden 'must act on climate'

Politics: 1 Oct 07
Sweden will be badly hit by the effects of climate change, and should act without delay to adapt to the new reality. That was the stark message in a report presented to the government on Monday. READ »

Kitsch, colourful and veggie

Lifestyle: 21 Sep 07
Tipping Point:Kathleen needs a break from blond wood tables, and is relieved to find that Stockholmers occasionally have the capacity for slightly kitsch taste. One place particularly replete with colour is a restaurant at the city's Hare Krishna temple. READ »

Landowners told: you can't keep Sami out

National: 19 Sep 07
Sami reindeer herders in northern Sweden can continue to let their animals graze in forests despite the objections of landowners, the Court of Appeal in Upper Norrland has ruled. The Sami have used the land "since time immemorial," the court said. READ »

If you go down to the woods today...

Lifestyle: 2 Aug 07
With wolves, bears and wild boar, Sweden has more scary creatures than many a European country. But the most dangerous of the lot is also one of the smallest, as Ben Kersley reports. READ »

Horny elks give Asia 'Swedish Viagra'

National: 17 Jul 07
Antlers from Swedish reindeer, elks and deer are being marketed in Asia as a 'Swedish Viagra'. The potency medicine is produced at a hotel in Fredrika in Västerbotten county, northern Sweden. READ »

Lapping up the Swedish wilderness

Travel: 4 Jul 07
Is there any truth to the rumour that Sweden’s northern wilderness is populated by thumb-sized mosquitoes and contact-seeking bears? Alec Forss separates the facts from the spin while trekking the peaks of the Polar region. READ »

Sweden's ice bar invites Shanghai to chill

National: 24 Jun 07
China's largest city Shanghai may be sweltering under muggy summer heat, but with fifty tonnes of ice shipped in from northern Sweden a new 'ice bar' looks set to be the coolest place in town. READ »

Swedish reindeer herders defy Norwegian authorities

National: 21 Jun 07
A Swedish Sami group involved in a protracted territorial dispute with Norway has indicated that it is staying put: 'If the Norwegian authorities bring in a helicopter to drive away our reindeer, we're going to make sure to get our own helicopter'. READ »

Deer mauled by mad dog

National: 6 May 07
Pleasure boat owners in central Stockholm looked on in horror on Sunday as a deer was mauled by a mad dog, said to be a Rhodesian Ridgeback. Neither the dog nor its owner have been found. READ »

Swedes still dying from Chernobyl radiation

Lifestyle: 4 May 07
It is now two decades since the world's worst nuclear power accident at Chernobyl, but people in parts of northern and central Sweden are still dying from cancer caused by the radiation. And the worst could still be to come, reports Rami Abdelrahman. READ »

Introducing...Runar Sögaard

Lifestyle: 10 Apr 07
It takes a special kind of man to be an Pentacostal preacher, a tireless Stockholm socialite and Carola's ex-husband. But Runar Sögaard takes it all in his stride, as Paul O'Mahony explains. READ »

Elks on jury duty to pass verdict on salt

Society: 10 Apr 07
A jury consisting of elks and reindeer will decide whether the roads authority changes the salt it uses to ice the nation's roads. The animals will be asked to adjudicate on which salt has the foulest taste, as part of road safety measures. READ »

New London flights for Kiruna

National: 30 Mar 07
SAS is to start regular winter flights between London and Kiruna, in the far north of Sweden. 5,000 British tourists are expected to use the twice-weekly service. READ »

Tärnaby - an alpine gold mine in Sweden's far north

Lifestyle: 27 Feb 07
Tärnaby - population 600 - has produced Sweden's two greatest skiers of all time. With one further star now burning brightly in the Polar sky, what is it that makes this tiny town so special? READ »

Introducing...E-Type

Lifestyle: 29 Jan 07
He's the Viking Chief of Swedish Eurodance, who is now taking to his new role as Stockholm's official arbiter of good taste. But don't accuse Martin 'E-Type' Eriksson of being named after a sports car. READ »

Reindeer threatened with starvation in northern Sweden

National: 12 Dec 06
Unless moved to coastal areas within the next week, 50,000 reindeer risk starving to death due to the unseasonably mild weather. For some of the animals the exodus has already begun. READ »

Skansen: a true taste of Swedish Christmas past

Lifestyle: 4 Dec 06
Stockholm's Skansen preserves Swedish cultural traditions and now is the perfect time to immerse yourself in a world when Christmas was a simpler, more magical affair. EA Fondelius reports. READ »

One in four Swedes think Astrology is a science

National: 10 Nov 06
Intelligent design is a scientific theory, according to 14 percent of Swedes. As for astrology, 23 percent of Swedes would classify it as a science, according to a new survey. READ »

Hunter 'killed with axe'

National: 18 Oct 06
A hunter who was found murdered last week in Halland was struck in the head with an axe approximately a dozen times, according to a post mortem examination. READ »

Swedish women turn to moose hunting

Lifestyle: 30 Aug 06
A record number of women are expected to take part in Sweden's annual moose hunt when it opens next week, and there are some famous faces among those cocking their rifles in the great outdoors. READ »

Man arrested after barbecue rampage

National: 28 Aug 06
A cosy birthday barbecue in a small village in central Sweden turned into a nightmare on Saturday night when a neighbour showed up - with an appetite for destruction, rather than grilled reindeer steaks. READ »

Reindeer herders more likely to commit suicide

Society: 5 Jun 06
Loneliness, lack of money and separation from the rest of society - these are some of the factors behind an increased likelihood that a young reindeer herder will take his own life. READ »

Getting around in Sweden

Travel: 3 May 06
Getting there in Sweden, wherever 'there' happens to be, can be half the pleasure, with stunning scenery the length and breadth of the country. READ »

12 million kronor to King's new charity

Smörgåsbord: 30 Apr 06
On Saturday Carl Gustaf received yet more birthday presents, including almost 12 million kronor in donations to a new charity, a reindeer lasso and a tie made from old curtains. READ »

Carola swept through to final

Lifestyle: 12 Mar 06
As if carried on the breeze of her trademark wind machine, Carola left her troubles behind to sail into the final found of Melodifestivalen. She will be joined there by balladeer Björn Kjellman, while the Rednex get another chance. READ »