Eskilstuna, a town to the west of Stockholm, has become the first in the country to introduce a licence fee for beggars, meaning anyone who wants to ask people for money on the street will have to pay for a permit.
Begging does not disturb the public order, a Swedish county administrative board said when it rejected the city of Eskiltuna's bid to make people apply for a permit before begging for money.
A Swedish city council has voted to require people to apply for a permit if they plan to "passively" beg for money -- but the decision could still be overturned before coming into force.
A 39-year-old man who stole a truck and drove through a Swedish town, ramming several other vehicles, has been sentenced to nine months in jail, writes regional newspaper Eskilstuna-Kuriren.
Two 11-year-old boys and a 12-year-old were seized by police on suspicion of attempting to rob two teenage girls, aged around 14, by threatening them with a knife, reports broadcaster SVT.
A blaze at a mosque in Eskilstuna in central Sweden that injured five people on Christmas Day was caused not by a firebomb but by an overheated deep fryer, a police source told a local newspaper.
Hundreds of Swedes took to the streets on Friday to denounce an arson attack on a mosque that injured five people, with Prime Minister Stefan Löfven branding the attack as "hateful violence."
An arsonist set fire to a mosque in central Sweden on Thursday injuring five people, police said, in the latest of a spate of attacks targeting Muslims.
Four young alligators escaped from a zoo in central Sweden on Tuesday and one remains on the loose just a day after a leopard fled its enclosure at the same facility, leading officials to suspect sabotage.
A 32-year-old man believed to be a high-ranking member of the Black Cobras criminal gang was shot dead outside a health clinic in Eskilstuna, central Sweden, on Monday in what police believe was settling of scores in the Swedish underworld.
The recent birth of a healthy baby gibbon at a zoo in central Sweden has surprised keepers, given that its infamously fertile parents are well into their 40s, a rarity for the species.
The Parken Zoo animal park in central Sweden has suspended its head zookeeper for misleading statements about the killing of endangered animals at the zoo in a widening scandal that has prompted the Board of Agriculture to intervene.
A zoo in eastern Sweden has come under fire for reportedly putting down animals and claiming they had simply been transferred to another zoo, misleading information the zoo now regrets sharing.
Two men were shot in Eskilstuna near Stockholm on Wednesday night in what police believe to have been the latest exchanges in three days of gang-related violence.
A 19-year-old Swedish woman has been caught in the middle of an internet storm after her Twitter account matched the name of US President Barack Obama's "Life of Julia" women’s rights campaign.
The first jaguars have now set foot on Swedish shores. One male and two female specimens of the exotic cat have arrived to the zoo Parken Zoo in Eskilstuna, an hour west of Stockholm, reported local newspaper Eskilstuna-Kuriren.
