The Danish government plans to place permanent speed checks from next year on the country’s two largest bridges, the Öresund Bridge that links the country to Sweden, and the Great Belt Bridge.
Finland's government has announced that it will open its borders to residents of Norway and Denmark from Monday next week, as part of a wider reopening to Nordic and Baltic nations.
Denmark was the first country in Europe to reopen day care and primary schools after the strict coronavirus lockdown. Emma Firth takes a look at how Denmark did it and what lessons there are for other countries.
Copenhagen's water utility has been asked to postpone a plan to dump 290,000 cubic meters of untreated raw sewage into the Øresund Strait in the face of outrage from citizens and politicians in both Sweden and Denmark.
Looking at the front pages of some news sites in Norway and Denmark, it almost seems as if they are willing the coronavirus outbreak in Sweden to worsen. Will the coming weeks prove Denmark and Norway were right to impose tougher restrictions on the country?
British citizens who already live in Sweden and commute across to the Öresund Bridge to work in Copenhagen will be able to continue working under the same tax and employment conditions as today, even if there is a 'no-deal' Brexit.
If you go to a spa hotel, campsite, or nature reserve in Skåne this year, you may notice a strange yelping and rasping sound echoing around you. That is Danish.
The trial of Danish submarine builder Peter Madsen, accused of murdering and mutilating Swedish journalist Kim Wall, resumes Wednesday as prosecutors dispute his account that she died accidentally aboard his vessel.
Over seven million vehicles crossed the Öresund Bridge over the strait separating Denmark and Sweden in 2017, the highest number of journeys in the connection's history.
A Danish family of four have been found guilty of smuggling after they moved from Denmark to Sweden and brought their 83 animals without the proper paperwork.
A tug of war between Sweden, Denmark and Finland over where Nordic banking giant Nordea should base its head office in the future is beginning to heat up.
Denmark's prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen says he is glad that Sweden has decided to scrap ID checks on crossings between the two Scandinavian countries in the Öresund region.
The Öresund Bridge between Sweden and Denmark was closed on Wednesday morning after at least ten cars were involved in what has been described as the biggest accident on the crossing since it opened 17 years ago.
The Öresund bridge between Sweden and Denmark is heading towards a new annual traffic record – but the number of regular train commuters has dropped in the past year.
It’s thought that the Vikings first arrived in Canada about 1000 years ago <a href="http://www.thelocal.se/20160921/watch-this-nordic-viking-ship-sail-into-new-york-sweden-norway" target="_blank">when Leif Eriksson went ashore in Newfoundland</a>, and the North American country has sparked another Nordic epic of the modern kind this week, when Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Norway squared off in a Twitter war.
They may be separated by naught but a four-kilometre strait, but there's more than that keeping Danes and Swedes apart, as we often learn here at The Local.
Police in western Sweden initially thought a man whose car was stuck in the snow was Danish, but after a while they realized he was slurring his words because he was drunk.
