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One dead in foreign worker car crash

National: 24 May 12
One person was killed and several injured in a serious traffic accident outside of Idre, in central Sweden, when an overcrowded minivan carrying Ukrainian forestry workers was overturned. READ »

Armed thieves escape after highway chaos

Business & Money: 23 May 12
Police are searching for the men involved in a dramatic highway robbery in Stockholm on Tuesday night, in which one car was stolen at gunpoint and an armoured transport vehicle was rammed. READ »

Police renew search for mystery Mustang driver

Society: 17 May 12
Swedish police on Wednesday launched a new search operation for a 26-year-old Czech man believed to have gone missing near Jokkmokk in northern Sweden after apparently abandoning his white Ford Mustang. READ »

Clueless campers disrupt military training exercise

Society: 14 May 12
A group of tourists hoping to pitch their tents in central Sweden may face criminal charges after disrupting a live-fire exercise taking place in a restricted military area. READ »

White Mustang mystery stumps Swedish police

National: 14 May 12
Police remain baffled as to the whereabouts of the driver of white Ford Mustang rented in the Czech Republic and found abandoned near the side of a road in northern Sweden with the keys still inside. READ »

Father and son in drowning accident

National: 13 May 12
The father died, but his three year-old son survived the ordeal, when their little inflatable dinghy capsized in the middle of a lake in western Sweden on Saturday afternoon. READ »

Prosecutors probe Swedish beaver hunters

Society: 11 May 12
Four men who were arrested while out hunting beaver in central Sweden at the weekend are being held in custody as prosecutors continue their hunting crimes investigation related to suspected illegal hunting of wolves. READ »

Stockholm car chase follows axe robbery

National: 30 Apr 12
Stockholm police were in hot pursuit of three men armed with an axe and a pistol who attempted to rob a money transport vehicle outside a galleria in the chic Stockholm district of Östermalm around lunchtime on Monday. READ »

Sweden’s defence 'not fit for battle': expert

Business & Money: 30 Apr 12
Sweden’s armed forces would not be able to defend Sweden should the need arise, according to experts, who point to the lack of protection against radiation, chemical and biological warfare, and the needs for field hospitals and helicopter training. READ »

Helicopters to bomb Swedish mosquitoes

National: 27 Apr 12
The mounting mosquito problems in the Dalälven region, in central Sweden, have resulted in a governmental plan to use helicopters to bomb the blood-thirsty insects to death before the summer season commences. READ »

Dogs attack Swedish women on horseback

National: 16 Apr 12
Three female horseback riders were attacked by a pair of loose dogs while out for a ride on Sunday afternoon in eastern Sweden, with one woman suffering severe bites in the face and neck. READ »

Skanska workers freed by rebels in Peru

Business & Money: 15 Apr 12
Peruvian rebels released 36 construction workers on Saturday, 28 of whom were employed by Swedish construction firm Skanska, bringing an end to a five day hostage drama. READ »

Spring snowfalls cause transport turmoil

Science & Technology: 14 Apr 12
Heavy snowfalls in central Sweden have left swathes of the Stockholm area without electricity and caused major problems for public transport and road users on Saturday. READ »

Man arrested after bomb threat shuts train station

National: 27 Mar 12
A man in his early twenties has been arrested on suspicion of calling in a bomb threat on Monday that prompted the evacuation of the central train station in Östersund, northern Sweden. READ »

Swedish soldier injured by Aghanistan bomb

National: 23 Mar 12
A Swedish soldier on duty in Afghanistan was seriously injured by a roadside bomb on Friday west of the Swedish military base in Mazar-i-Sharif. READ »

Missing skiers found in northern Sweden

National: 18 Mar 12
Four young men reported missing after venturing out on a skiing trek in the vicinity of Gällivare in the mountains of northern Sweden have been found, police confirmed on Sunday afternoon. READ »

Wreckage found in plane crash search

National: 16 Mar 12
Rescue teams have located wreckage of the missing Norwegian Hercules aircraft near Sweden's highest peak, military sources confirmed Friday evening. READ »

Bad weather slows hunt for lost Hercules plane

National: 16 Mar 12
Harsh weather conditions complicated search and rescue efforts underway Thursday night to locate a Norwegian Hercules military transport plane which is feared to have crashed in the mountains of northwestern Sweden. READ »

Norwegian Hercules plane missing in Sweden

National: 15 Mar 12
A Norwegian Hercules C-130 military transport plane with five people on board lost contact on Thursday afternoon with the airport in northern Sweden where it was scheduled to land. READ »

Stranded 'Phantom' menaces Swedish coast

National: 16 Feb 12
Helicopters from Sweden's coastguard were deployed on Wednesday night to rescue the crew of a ship stranded off the coast of the Baltic island of Öland. READ »

One presumed dead in snowmobile drowning

Sport: 10 Feb 12
Two men on snowmobiles went through the ice on a lake near Östersund in northern Sweden on Thursday, in what is believed to have been a fatal accident for one. READ »

Five reasons I can't stand skiing: an Aussie's pain

Analysis & Opinion: 9 Feb 12
Having just returned from a ‘horror ski trip’, The Local’s resident Aussie and first-time skier Oliver Gee wonders why Swedes find such pleasure in hurling themselves down snowy hills. READ »

Avalanche kills man at Swedish ski resort

Sport: 7 Feb 12
A ski patroller has died after being buried in an avalanche at the Funäsfjällen ski resort near Härjedalen in northern Sweden on Monday, while assessing the avalanche risk in the area. READ »

Man dead in snowboarding accident

National: 29 Jan 12
A Swedish man in his twenties died late Saturday night from the injuries he sustained in a snowboarding accident in Dalarna skiing resort Hundfjället, in central Sweden. READ »

Police consult psychic to find missing 82-year-old

Society: 11 Jan 12
When the search for a missing 82-year-old in central Sweden proved unsuccessful, police resorted to desperate measures and consulted a clairvoyant. READ »

Nazi-era mine washes ashore in Sweden

Science & Technology: 10 Jan 12
Bomb experts from the Swedish military have been called in to disarm a live, World War II-era German mine that washed ashore near Sundsvall in northern Sweden. READ »

Sweden's elk trump reindeer in new Christmas book

Lifestyle: 21 Dec 11
Some face time with Sweden's mighty elk led best selling children’s book author Jan Brett to choose the 'King of the Forest' rather than sleigh-pulling reindeer to star alongside a family of trolls in her latest Christmas-themed book, The Local's Joel Linde discovers. READ »

One dead in severe sailing accident

National: 4 Dec 11
One person died and two were injured after being fished out of the water in a sailing accident outside Harstena in the Gryt archipelago, in eastern Sweden, on Saturday. READ »

Sweden's Christmas goat succumbs to flames

National: 2 Dec 11
The giant 13 metre tall Christmas goat, erected in Gävle on Sweden's east coast, went up in flames early Friday morning after an attack by unknown assailants. READ »

Man held over Stockholm student stabbing

National: 30 Nov 11
A hooded man attacked and seriously injured a student with a knife at a high school north of Stockholm on Wednesday morning. A man in his twenties was later arrested in connection with the incident. READ »

Nine years for blowing up lover's husband

National: 30 Nov 11
A 58-year-old man in western Sweden has been sentenced to nine years in prison after attempting to blow up the husband of his mistress. READ »

Police foil Hells Angels kidnap plot

National: 26 Nov 11
In a mysterious incident in Gothenburg, a kidnapped man in his 50s was freed by police after they found him bound and gagged in the boot of a car. READ »

WikiLeaks and Julian Assange: a timeline

Analysis & Opinion: 2 Nov 11
A timeline of WikiLeak's rise to prominence and subsequent attempts to clamp down on the site and extradite its founder, Julian Assange, who on Wednesday lost an appeal of his extradition to Sweden to answer questions sex crimes accusations. READ »

Police slammed for 'slow' response

National: 28 Oct 11
Swedish police officers' slow response to the spectacular helicopter robbery of a cash depot south of Stockholm in 2009 has come in for stinging criticism from the National Swedish Police Board’s own inspection unit. READ »

Fine weather aids oil spill clean-up

National: 25 Sep 11
Clean-up work following the oil spill off Sweden's west coast was helped by good weather conditions, and on Saturday evening roughly 35 tonnes of oil had been taken out of the water. READ »

Mother admits to killing sons, 4 and 8

National: 22 Sep 11
The 30-year-old mother who is suspected of having murdered her two young sons, whose bodies were recovered from a lake in Sigtuna north of Stockholm on Monday, confessed to their killing on Thursday afternoon. READ »

Mother held for killing sons, 4 and 8

National: 19 Sep 11
The mother of two boys, aged four and eight-years-old, who were found dead on Monday in a lake near Sigtuna north of Stockholm after going missing on Sunday night, is being held by police on suspicion of murder. READ »

'Missing' toddler fools Swedish police

Society: 19 Sep 11
Dozens of police officers engaged in a massive search for a 2-year-old girl who was reported missing in southern Sweden on Saturday. As it turned out, she was simply very good at hiding. READ »

Two injured in fall on Sweden's highest peak

National: 14 Aug 11
Two men in their twenties were seriously injured in a climbing accident on Sweden's highest peak, Kebnekaise, early Sunday morning. READ »

Swedish soldier injured in Afghanistan

National: 13 Aug 11
A Swedish soldier was shot in the leg during a routine mission neary Mazar-e-Sharif in Afghanistan on Saturday morning. READ »

Boy watched as granddad dragged out to sea

National: 10 Aug 11
A man in his seventies has been reported missing after having fallen overboard on a fishing trip near Varberg in western Sweden. The man's 11-year-old grandson tried to save him but was unable to hold on. READ »

Vilnius mayor crushes car in wild tank ride for Swedish TV show

Society: 3 Aug 11
The mayor of the Lithuanian capital Vilnius has has been filmed driving an armoured vehicle over a parked car as both a prank for a Swedish TV show, and as a blunt warning to drivers to observe the city's regulations. READ »

Police terror response hit by chopper shortage

National: 28 Jul 11
Swedish police have warned that if a terrorist attack similar to the Utøya massacre should occur in Sweden then the response would be no faster due to the shortage of helicopters. READ »

Man arrested for murdering mother

National: 21 Jul 11
A 38-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering his 73-year-old mother in a summer house on an island in Lake Mälaren in eastern Sweden late on Wednesday night. READ »

Man dies after high-speed police chase

National: 21 Jul 11
A 22-year-old man died when he crashed his motorcycle in Stockholm late Wednesday following a police chase at speeds of up to 250 kilometres/hour. READ »

Three dead in head-on collision

National: 20 Jul 11
Three people died and one was critically injured in a violent frontal collision between two vehicles outside Skene in southern Sweden on Tuesday evening. READ »

Lapping up Sweden’s rivers: rafting in the land of the midnight sun

Travel: 27 Jun 11
While Sweden is perhaps better known for its archipelagos and lakes, the country's rivers can also serve up summer fun to thrill seekers and nature lovers alike, The Local’s Karen Holst discovers. READ »

Minivan rollover kills two in northern Sweden

National: 19 Jun 11
Two people were killed and eight people injured when a minivan ran off the road and flipped Saturday night in northern Sweden. The severity of injuries sustained by the eight is unclear. READ »

Lace 'em up: Sweden’s five best hiking trails

Travel: 9 Jun 11
As the warm summer weather beckons, contributor Alec Forss offers up a list of some of Sweden's best hiking trails. READ »

Man convicted for 'shooting' police with a laser

Science & Technology: 2 Jun 11
A 21-year-old has been convicted of aviation sabotage after pointing a laser pen at the pilot of a pollice helicopter in Gothenburg last year. READ »

Man found shot near isolated pedestrian path

National: 1 Jun 11
A man in his fifties with life-threatening gunshot wounds was found lying near a walking path in south central Sweden late Tuesday night in what police have classified as attempted murder. READ »

Two dead in Stockholm helicopter crash

National: 28 May 11
Two people have died after a small helicopter crashed just north of Stockholm early on Saturday afternoon. READ »

Iceland ash could impact Swedish flights: agency

National: 24 May 11
Swedish air traffic could be affected when volcanic ash from Icelandic Grimsvötn reaches western Sweden on Tuesday afternoon, according to the country's Civil Aviation Administration. READ »

Man hurt in Gothenburg bomb attack

National: 23 May 11
An explosion ripped through a house in Kungälv in western Sweden early Monday morning sending one man to hospital in what police believe was an attempted murder. READ »

Police face machine gun fire in bank robbery

National: 18 May 11
A branch of Handelsbanken in Flen in eastern Sweden was robbed on Wednesday morning by masked men armed with machine guns. Police later issued a nationwide-alert in hopes of catching the perpetrators. READ »

Man 'executed' in Malmö car park

National: 11 May 11
Police in Malmö are out in force on Wednesday after a man was shot dead by a gunman lying in wait for him in the car park near one of the city's more popular outdoor swimming areas. READ »

Hunters bait bears with bloodied bedding for constipation death

Society: 9 May 11
Police in Norrbotten in northern Sweden are investigating an attempt to kill bears by fooling them into eating a blood-soaked mattress, causing a slow death by starvation due to constipation. READ »

Woman dies in nursing home fire

National: 30 Apr 11
One women died in an apartment fire that broke out at a senior citizen facility in Enskede just south of Stockholm late Friday night. READ »

Swede dies in avalanche in Norway

National: 24 Apr 11
A 33-year-old Swedish skier died Saturday after he was carried away by a snow slide in Breidalen in western Norway. READ »

Three feared dead after Baltic fishing trip

National: 17 Apr 11
Two bodies have been found in Hanö bay near Simrishamn in the south east of Sweden, while the search for a third missing person has been called off after a fishing boat ran into trouble. READ »

Swedish military ramps up helicopter fleet

Politics: 9 Apr 11
Sweden has committed to buying 15 new American-made Black Hawk helicopters to help increase its fleet in Afghanistan. READ »

Stockholm helicopter heist inspires US e-book

Lifestyle: 28 Mar 11
While the Hollywood-esque robbery of a Stockholm cash depot continues to play out in the Swedish courts, American journalist Evan Ratliff recently published the first in-depth account of the heist, The Local's David Landes explains. READ »

Swedish media firm launches apps for kids

Science & Technology: 17 Mar 11
Swedish media giant Bonnier has launched its first Ipad applications aimed at pre-school children and intended for the international market. READ »

Three appeal helicopter heist sentence

National: 17 Mar 11
Three of the men convicted for their roles in the spectacular helicopter heist in Västberga in September 2009 have appealed their sentences to the Supreme Court. READ »

Swedish hunter falls to his death in New Zealand

National: 14 Mar 11
A 25-year-old Swedish man on holiday in New Zealand has been found dead near a waterfall in a national park. READ »

Sweden offers aid for Libya refugee effort

National: 4 Mar 11
Sweden plans to contribute a C-130 Hercules aircraft as well as 33 million kronor ($5.2 million) to assist with the evacuation of refugees from Libya READ »

Swedish couple killed in head-on collision

National: 27 Feb 11
A man and his wife lost their lives on Saturday after their car collided head-on with another vehicle in the northern Sweden. READ »

Dutch skaters saved from Swedish ice floe

National: 25 Feb 11
Six skaters from the Netherlands were saved from an ice floe on Sweden's Lake Vättern on Friday after having been adrift for several hours. READ »

Favourable weather aids oil slick clean up

Science & Technology: 19 Feb 11
The Swedish and Norwegian coast guard continued work to clean up the oil spill caused by a grounded Icelandic vessel just north of the Swedish border on Thursday, reporting that weather conditions remained favourable. READ »

Swedish court hikes helicopter heist penalties

National: 16 Feb 11
Sweden's Svea Court of Appeal has announced that it has raised the penalties served on three of the key men behind the spectacular helicopter heist in Västberga in September 2009. READ »

Manhunt for intruder at Mona Sahlin's home

National: 10 Feb 11
Reports of an attempted break-in at the home of Social Democratic leader Mona Sahlin on Thursday morning prompted a massive response as police hunted for the intruder. READ »

Power cut as storms batter southern Sweden

Science & Technology: 8 Feb 11
Over 35,000 people were left without power on Monday night as storm winds swept across southern Sweden, leaving widespread traffic problems due to fallen trees and debris. READ »

Swedish skier dies after 30-metre fall

National: 6 Feb 11
The Swedish foreign ministry has confirmed the death of a Swedish man in a skiing accident in St. Anton, Austria. READ »

Police stop search for missing Swedish prof

National: 7 Jan 11
Police investigating the disappearance of a missing Örebro University lecturer broke off their search of an area about 10 kilometres north of the central Swedish city on Friday afternoon. READ »

Murder probe over missing Swedish pastor

National: 5 Jan 11
Police in Värmland in western Sweden have launched a preliminary murder investigation regarding the case of a 78-year-old retired female pastor who disappeared on December 14th. READ »

Elderly Swede dies while ice sailing

National: 31 Dec 10
A 71-year-old man died last night in western Sweden after becoming lost while ice sailing. READ »

Gävle goat targeted in foiled helicopter heist

Society: 17 Dec 10
Two mysterious men attempted to bribe a guard to leave his post watching over the giant goat in Gävle in eastern Sweden in an attempt to kidnap the iconic Christmas symbol using a helicopter. READ »

Swedish soldiers in Afghanistan firefight

National: 28 Nov 10
Swedish soldiers were involved in a firefight west of their base in Mazar-i-Sharif in Afghanistan on Saturday. READ »

Swedish officer badly hurt in Afghanistan

National: 19 Nov 10
A Swedish officer and two Finnish soldiers were seriously injured when their vehicle was shot with a rocket launcher in Afghanistan on Friday. READ »

Swedish coastguard aids blazing ferry

National: 17 Nov 10
The Swedish coastguard on Wednesday came to the aid of a Danish ferry travelling from Oslo to Copenhagen after a fire broke out onboard. READ »

Swedish minister 'tired' of refugees from Greece

Politics: 6 Nov 10
Swedish Migration Minister Tobias Billström is 'tired' of Greece and its problems in dealing with asylum seekers. READ »

Swedish fighter jets flew into live fire drill

Science & Technology: 4 Nov 10
Two Swedish fighter planes flew into a training area where the military was engaged in a live ammunition exercise last fall, an incident which an internal investigation attributed to serious deficiencies in operating procedures. READ »

Swedish mums seek more kids time: study

Society: 27 Oct 10
Swedish mums would like to spend more time with their kids, half think that other mums would like to be housewives if they could, while six of ten feel that fathers take more responsibility in the home, a new survey has shown. READ »

Dead Swede returns to Afghanistan base

National: 17 Oct 10
A memorial service for Kenneth Wallin, the Swedish soldier who died near Mazar-i-Sharif in Afghanistan on Saturday, is to held by Swedish forces on Sunday after the return of his body to Camp Northern Light. READ »

Swedish soldier killed in Afghanistan

National: 16 Oct 10
A Swedish soldier was killed in Afghanistan on Saturday when an armoured vehicle was blown up by a improvised explosive device west of Mazar-i-Sharif. READ »

Guilty verdicts for helicopter heist suspects

National: 7 Oct 10
Several suspects involved in last year’s Hollywood-style helicopter heist of a cash depot south of Stockholm were found guilty on Thursday. READ »

More attacks on Swedish troops in Afghanistan

National: 7 Oct 10
Swedish troops in Afghanistan have been involved in over 30 firefights and 15 bomb attacks since May, calling in Nato air support on ten occasions, according to a media report. READ »

Three helicopter heist suspects released

National: 10 Sep 10
Three of the men charged for their role in the helicopter-aided robbery of a Stockholm-area cash depot last September were released today by Södertörn district court. READ »

Helicopter heist trial closes in Stockholm

National: 9 Sep 10
The court trial of the ten men charged with the dramatic helicopter heist on a cash depot in southern Stockholm last September wrapped up on Wednesday, a judge in the case confirmed. READ »

WikiLeaks' Assange requests new lawyer

National: 7 Sep 10
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange announced on Tuesday that he would like to replace lawyer Leif Silbersky as his defence attorney. READ »

Suspects deserve the 'maximum penalty'

National: 2 Sep 10
The prosecution presented its final arguments on Thursday in the trial of 10 men suspected of carrying out a brazen helicopter-aided robbery of a Stockholm cash depot last September. READ »

Young woman found murdered, man arrested

National: 20 Aug 10
A woman was found murdered near a small town in Kronoberg in southern Sweden on Thursday evening after a police search. A 35-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of the killing. READ »

What's On in Sweden: August 20th - 26th

Lifestyle: 19 Aug 10
What’s on in Sweden: Magnificent men and their flying machines in Stockholm, midnight runners in Gothenburg, and it's festival time in Malmö. READ »

Police operation called off as gunmen escape

Society: 18 Aug 10
Police have called off a major operation around a summer cottage north of Smålandsstenar in Småland after failing to find those responsible for gunfire aimed at a police patrol in Hyltebruk early on Tuesday morning. READ »

'I wasn't the pilot - I was high on drugs'

National: 12 Aug 10
A TV producer has denied being the pilot of a helicopter used in a spectacular robbery at a Stockholm cash depot - telling the court he was high on drugs on the night in question. READ »

Helicopter heist suspect confesses to theft

National: 9 Aug 10
A 31-year-old man charged with playing a role in a spectacular robbery at a Stockholm cash depot last year has admitted he was involved in the heist. READ »

Three naked German women found in woods

National: 2 Aug 10
A search party was called off in southern Sweden on Sunday as three naked German women lost in the woods eventually managed to relocate their holiday home without the aid of a police helicopter or sniffer dogs. READ »

Accused deny helicopter heist as trial opens

National: 2 Aug 10
The ten men suspected of involvement in a spectacular cash depot heist have denied all charges as their high-profile trial opened amid huge media and public interest in Stockholm on Monday. READ »

Two killed in glacier accident on Kebnekaise

National: 27 Jul 10
Two Finnish citizens, a 28-year-old man and a 23-year-old woman, died on Tuesday in an accident on Storglaciären in Kebnekaise, Sweden's highest mountain in the north, according to police. READ »

Bildt urges civilian changes in Afghanistan

Politics: 21 Jul 10
Civilian changes are needed in Afghanistan in order to achieve the security objectives outlined at a donor conference in Kabul, Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said late on Tuesday. READ »


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