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Silent buses to woo Gothenburg commuters

National: 17 Jun 13
Swedish automaker Volvo is set to launch a fleet of silent, electric buses in Gothenburg, as part of the west coast city's aim to become climate-neutral as well as tackle noise pollution. READ »

Swedish summer homes a hit with foreigners

Society: 28 May 13
The number of foreigners who own summer houses in Sweden has doubled since 2000, with Danes, Germans, and Norwegians taking the lead in purchasing a Swedish smultronställe for their families. READ »

Two cars collide as elk gives birth on road

Society: 25 May 13
Two cars collided on a road between Trollhättan and Vänersborg in western Sweden on Friday afternoon due to an elk having chosen the unusual spot to give birth to a calf. READ »

Woman's hair set on fire in queue dispute

Society: 2 May 13
A dispute at a store in western Sweden left one woman with her hair on fire and another facing possible assault charges. READ »

Gothenburg shootings surge in two years

National: 29 Apr 13
After a man was shot dead through his kitchen window in Gothenburg this weekend, local police said easier access to weapons has lead to one shooting a week in the western Sweden city. READ »

Swedish teens injured in school bus crash

National: 15 Apr 13
Several Swedish teenagers were injured in an accident late afternoon on Monday as their school bus was hit by a truck near Borås, central Sweden. READ »

Axe attack mars Swede's backyard barbecue

Society: 15 Apr 13
A backyard barbecue in central Sweden took a sinister turn on Sunday when an irate neighour buried a hatchet in the back of the man tending the grill. READ »

Swedish store slammed for Facebook 'thief' pic

Science & Technology: 29 Mar 13
A grocery store in Västra Götaland in western Sweden has been criticised after publishing a surveillance camera photo of a suspected thief on its Facebook page with the comment 'nice that you like our lamb and beef'. READ »

Twelve heads roll in Sweden Democrat purge

Politics: 18 Mar 13
The Sweden Democrats on Monday announced they were kicking twelve members out of the party, including a prominent Gothenburg politician with strong ties to Sweden's neo-Nazi movement. READ »

Dressing like Hitler not a crime: Swedish court

National: 7 Mar 13
A 24-year-old man who attended a party dressed as Nazi leader Adolf Hitler has been acquitted of hate crime charges by a Swedish court. READ »

Woman dies after being shot in the face

National: 1 Mar 13
A 45-year-old woman in Gothenburg has died in hospital after she was shot in the face on Friday morning when she was out for a walk. READ »

Sweden confirms horse in Ikea-supplier meatballs

Business & Money: 27 Feb 13
Ikea's Sweden-based meatball supplier confirmed on Wednesday that it had found horsemeat in meatballs destines for sale in outlets of the Swedish furniture retailing giant. READ »

'Swedish reality shows violate patients' rights'

Science & Technology: 28 Jan 13
Swedish reality television shows featuring hospitals and emergency services fail to protect patients' rights, according to a complaint filed on Monday that accuses public health authorities of breaking privacy law by allowing filming. READ »

Swedish motorists battle more icy roads

Science & Technology: 28 Jan 13
Emergency services were kept busy on Sunday as slippery roads in western Sweden led to 60 traffic accidents over a seven-hour period, with meteorologists warning motorists of similar conditions on Monday. READ »

Reveller killed walking along motorway

National: 1 Jan 13
A young man was hit and killed by a car when he took a walk along the E6 motorway near Stenungsund on New Year's Eve, which also saw drunken spats and firework accidents across the country. READ »

Liberal EU Commissioner Cecilia Malmström

Society: 6 Dec 12
In a new series profiling Swedish newsmakers, The Local takes a look at Cecilia Malmström, the Swedish EU Commissioner who this week helped launch a global alliance to combat child pornography. READ »

Missing man found dead in Gothenburg harbour

National: 24 Nov 12
A body found floating in the Göta Älv in central Gothenburg on Saturday morning has been identified as a man reported missing after a night in a nearby pub in October. READ »

Pro-Assange group in Swedish hospital hack

Science & Technology: 23 Nov 12
A cyber attack on a Swedish hospital has been reported to the police, with the hackers claiming to be pro-Julian Assange members of the hacktivist network Anonymous. READ »

Major integration reform slow to yield results

Politics: 22 Nov 12
Newly-arrived immigrants are still struggling to find work two years after a labour market reform to help them get established in Sweden, a new study has shown, but officials argue the programme will work as long as immigrants stick to it. READ »

Hells Angels behind MC gang attack: report

National: 28 Oct 12
A man was shot in the leg, another was stabbed and a third received a blow to the head with an axe, when a group of men, report to be members of the Hells Angels, attacked a rival gang in Skene in western Sweden on Saturday. READ »

Police on alert after threat on Swedish banks

Business & Money: 25 Oct 12
Police have upped their presence in Dalsland and Värmland counties in central and eastern Sweden after receiving information of an increased threat against banks in the region. READ »

Missing man found dead, locked inside car boot

National: 22 Oct 12
A man who went missing on Thursday was found dead in the trunk of a vehicle by a volunteer search team in western Sweden on Sunday. READ »

Arson suspected in violent house fire

National: 6 Oct 12
Three people are feared dead in a fire that destroyed a house on the island of Orust in western Sweden. Police believe the fire may have been deliberately set. READ »

Woman held on remand over bones found in flat

National: 8 Sep 12
A woman accused of having parts of human skeletons in her Gothenburg apartment was brought before Gothenburg’s district court on Saturday for remand negotiations. READ »

'Cancer is contagious': Swedish teenagers

Science & Technology: 22 Aug 12
Nearly 50 percent of Swedish teenagers think that cancer is contagious and only one percent knew that it's possible to vaccinate against cervical cancer, according to a new study. READ »

Police told not to 'waste' bootleg booze

Business & Money: 23 Jul 12
Police in western Sweden have been ordered to cease pouring seized alcohol down the drain due to the risk of poisoning the local water supply, with the suggestion that it could become biogas instead. READ »

Police cordon off hospital after mystery powder find

National: 9 Jul 12
Police cordoned off the entrance to a hospital in Gothenburg after a man arrived with an unknown powder on his body on Monday morning. However, the powder was later found to be harmless. READ »

Summer hols stressful for passport issuers

National: 16 Jun 12
With vacations and summer holidays around the corner, travel figures are up, and Sweden’s passport-issuing police are buckling under the pressure. READ »

Narcolepsy traced to specific vaccine batches

Science & Technology: 1 Jun 12
A new Swedish study shows that all Swedes who developed narcolepsy from the swine flu vaccine Pandemrix received the vaccine from 12 of the 35 batches, despite the claim by the responsible agency that no such connection exists. READ »

Hostess plummets from Ryanair plane in Sweden

National: 8 May 12
An air hostess fell out of the exit of a Ryanair aircraft at the Gothenburg City Airport on Tuesday and was brought to hospital, bleeding from the head. READ »

Police identify dumped body as missing Marina

National: 18 Apr 12
Human remains discovered in a nature reserve in western Sweden on Saturday are those of a woman who disappeared from her home almost two years ago, local police confirmed on Wednesday. READ »

Bones find linked to missing woman mystery

National: 15 Apr 12
Volunteers searching for the remains of 31-year-old Marina Johansson, who went missing in July 2010, on Saturday located bones which police believe to have come from a human body. READ »

Big blast rocks central Gothenburg eatery

National: 9 Mar 12
A strong explosion triggered several automatic alarms in a row of shops in central Gothenburg early on Friday morning. Police are still not clear on what caused the blast. READ »

Man found dead in Gothenburg eatery

National: 6 Mar 12
A man was found dead inside a Gothenburg café on Monday night, yet police, who have launched a murder investigation, are still unaware of the victim's identity. READ »

Police 'not told' of stabbing suspect's call

National: 3 Mar 12
The 28-year-old man suspected of stabbing a 10-year-old girl in the throat at a Gothenburg school called and identified himself to emergency services immediately after the attack, but the information wasn't forwarded to the police. READ »

Fleeing thief runs into police station

Society: 2 Mar 12
Runaway robbers, terrible drivers, and parking places for horses - it’s time to reflect upon these little stories and more in this week's edition of The Local's News in Brief. READ »

Romanian sex trafficking trial opens in Gothenburg

National: 29 Feb 12
On Wednesday the trial opened against six men suspected of bringing young women from Romania to Sweden to sell sex under deplorable conditions. READ »

Police bust massive sex trafficking ring

National: 28 Feb 12
Six men are set to be charged on Wednesday in the Gothenburg District Court on suspicions of operating a comprehensive human trafficking operation which brought young women from Romania to Sweden to sell sex. READ »

Family finds drunken man in 3-year-old's bed

Society: 27 Feb 12
A family in Stenungsund, western Sweden, got a disturbing shock when they found a drunk man asleep in their three-year-old’s bed. READ »

Rowdy start to the new year in Sweden

National: 1 Jan 12
Police were kept busy during the last evening of 2011 with celebrations all over Sweden getting out of hand and resulting in brawling and firework accidents. READ »

Terror raid based on 'vague' information

National: 15 Dec 11
The terror allegations which caused police to break into the homes of two families in Gothenburg last autumn were based on “vague and confused” statements, according to a report. READ »

Police swamped by 'impossible' deportations

National: 12 Dec 11
Sweden's law enforcement agencies are struggling to deal with a record-high 18,000 pending deportation orders, many of which are considered "impossible". READ »

Motorists trapped in flooded Gothenburg

National: 10 Dec 11
Emergency services are cautioning motorists in Gothenburg in western Sweden to take care as a recent wave of winter weather has left a number of roads in the city's road flooded. READ »

Violence and drink rules All Saints weekend

Society: 6 Nov 11
The All Saints holiday weekend brought trouble throughout Sweden, with a notable spike in drunkenness, fights and other assaults in the north of the country. READ »

Couple found 'executed' on Swedish farm

National: 20 Oct 11
A man and a woman were found brutally murdered on a farm in western Sweden on Wednesday afternoon after the couple failed to turn up for choir practice. READ »

Border cop convicted after sex bribe attempt

National: 6 Oct 11
An officer with the Swedish border police in Västra Götaland was convicted Wednesday for offering a female asylum seeker to ”forget about her case” in return for sex and drugs. READ »

Blood donors targeted in social media push

Science & Technology: 5 Oct 11
Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg in western Sweden has launched a massive social media campaign to encourage blood donors to sign up to a "nag me until I become a blood donor" contract and help tackle a shortage. READ »

Massive increase in flats for sale

Business & Money: 4 Oct 11
The number of tenant-owner occupied apartments in Sweden is over 50 percent higher this year in comparison with last year, according to new figures published on Tuesday. READ »

EU tells Sweden to repay farm subsidy

Business & Money: 22 Sep 11
Sweden has been told by the European Union to repay 870 million kronor (€94 million, $127 million) in agricultural subsidies, a third of which will be paid by farmers, an industry body said Thursday. READ »

Western Sweden worse hit by narcolepsy: study

Society: 16 Sep 11
The risk of developing the sleeping disorder narcolepsy after receiveing the swine flu vaccine is 20 times as high for kids in western Sweden, according to an ongoing study. READ »

Explosion rocks Gothenburg police depot

National: 14 Sep 11
A powerful explosion occurred at a police building on Hisingen in Gothenburg at around 7pm on Tuesday, causing a fire and prompting a police investigation. READ »

'Hurricane' Katia fells trees, disrupts traffic

National: 14 Sep 11
Trees were felled to the ground, train traffic was halted, and thousands were left without power as the remnants of Hurricane Katia swept through Sweden on Tuesday. READ »

Nature snapper stripped of photo award

National: 13 Sep 11
Photographer Terje Hellesö, has been stripped of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency's Nature Photographer of the Year award after admitting that he manipulated a number of his pictures of predatory animals. READ »

Sweden braces for wrath of 'tropical hurricane'

Science & Technology: 12 Sep 11
The remnants of Hurricane Katia are set to reach Sweden's west coast on Monday evening, carrying heavy rain and strong winds and prompting the the country's meteorological agency to issue a weather warning. READ »

Thieves use wheel loader in cash machine heist

Business & Money: 9 Sep 11
Thieves driving a wheel loader through the entrance of a supermarket early on Friday morning scooped a cash machine straight out of the wall before disappearing from the scene with their loot. READ »

Sweden Democrat MP in bouncer 'beating' uproar

Politics: 5 Sep 11
Sweden Democrat member of parliament Erik Almqvist was arrested at the weekend following a confrontation with bouncers at an exclusive Stockholm nightclub. He denies using any violence. READ »

Nature snapper admits to pasting in lynx

Science & Technology: 5 Sep 11
Photographer Terje Hellesö, recipient of a Swedish Nature Photographer of the Year award, has been reported to police after admitting that he manipulated a number of his pictures of predatory animals. READ »

Man fined for Nazi salute

National: 27 Aug 11
In the second case of its kind in recent months, a man from Småland in southern Sweden has been fined for making Nazi salutes shouting ”Heil Hitler”. READ »

Extreme weather on the rise in Sweden: SMHI

Science & Technology: 16 Aug 11
Heavy rains and extreme weather are becoming more common in Sweden, according to a study by the Swedish weather agency SMHI. READ »

Swedes develop sci-fi style car test site

Science & Technology: 12 Aug 11
A Swedish company has become the first in the world to develop a so-called active safety test site, which it is hoped will ultimately drastically reduce the number of car accidents. READ »

Swedish lesbians more keen to wed: study

Society: 2 Aug 11
More Swedish lesbians than gay men have taken advantage of rules allowing same-sex couple's to get married, new statistics show. READ »

Warnings ahead of new wave of violent storms

Science & Technology: 10 Jun 11
A new line of thunderstorms is expected to bring more heavy rain to southern and central Sweden on Friday as the region struggles to cope with power outages and flooding from a previous batch of storms. READ »

Swedish citizenship applications on the rise

Society: 7 Jun 11
The number of people applying to be Swedish citizens is expected to rise in 2011, according to forecasts from the Swedish Migration Board. READ »

Reduce abortions by promoting adoption: Christian Democrat

Politics: 30 May 11
Rather than abort unwanted children, women in Sweden should give birth and put the children up for adoption, a Christian Democrat politician has argued, hoping the measure would reduce the number of abortions in Sweden. READ »

Red-Green success in Sweden election re-run

Politics: 16 May 11
The Red-Green opposition claimed 45.8 percent of the vote in the election re-run in Västra Götaland in western Sweden on Sunday, with the Alliance parties polling 42.3 percent and the Sweden Democrats 5.8 percent. READ »

Polls back both sides ahead of election re-run

National: 15 May 11
The parties on both sides of the Swedish political spectrum were given a boost in last minute polls ahead of Sunday's municipal election re-run in Västra Götaland in western Sweden. READ »

Healthcare in focus in by-election push

Politics: 14 May 11
The Social Democrats have once again emphasised their committment to public healthcare services ahead of tomorrow’s by-election in Västra Götaland. READ »

Free school applications hit new highs

Education: 13 May 11
Sweden's independent school sector continues to expand, with applications for new schools increasing 12 percent on a record 2010, according to new figures from the Swedish Schools Inspectorate. READ »

Low turn out fears in Swedish election re-run

Politics: 12 May 11
As a county council election re-run beckons in western Sweden, there are fears that a record low proportion of the electorate will bother to cast their votes. READ »

More cars aflame in Gothenburg

National: 7 May 11
Five cars were destroyed in the wee hours Saturday morning in Gothenburg in what police believe is arson. Two other cars were scorched. No arrests have been made. READ »

Sweden steps up hunt for 'deadly' parasite

Science & Technology: 7 May 11
Efforts to trace the source of a tapeworm first discovered in Sweden in February were stepped up after a fox with the parasite was recently shot in Södermanland in central Sweden. READ »

Power shift beckons in Swedish election re-run

Politics: 3 May 11
As a county council election re-run nears in western Sweden, the Social Democrats are losing ground and the Red-Greens stand to surrender power, according to a new poll published on Tuesday. READ »

Caution urged over fires as Sweden heats up

National: 26 Apr 11
With forecasts indicating a continued bout of warm, dry weather in much of Sweden, authorities have urged caution following reports of a number of grass fires over the Easter weekend. READ »

Reinfeldt declines Juholt debate challenge

Politics: 10 Apr 11
Fredrik Reinfeldt surprised the Social Democrats by declining an offer to debate newly installed party leader Håkan Juholt ahead of new elections scheduled for Västra Götaland County in May. READ »

New elections to be held in parts of Sweden

Politics: 11 Feb 11
Sweden is set to re-run one municipal and one county council election, the country's Election Review Board announced on Friday, more than five months after the country's September 2010 general elections. READ »

Gothenburg woman with syphilis sold sex

Society: 20 Jan 11
A woman with syphilis sold sex in Gothenburg through most of the autumn of 2010 without informing clients that she had the disease, according to a news report. READ »

70 protesters against Iraqi expulsions arrested

National: 18 Jan 11
Police have arrested about 70 demonstrators who gathered outside the Swedish National Migration Board's (Migrationsverket) offices south of Gothenburg to prevent a group of Iraqis from being deported on Wednesday. READ »

Sweden's wolf hunt heading to court: EU

Politics: 17 Jan 11
Sweden's wolf hunt violates EU law, environment commissioner Janez Potocnik said on Monday, vowing to drag Sweden to court for allowing the hunt to continue this year. READ »

January thaw causes chaos across Sweden

National: 9 Jan 11
Drivers of more than 40 long-haul trucks dare not drive any further due to slippery conditions on Swedish roads, while falling ice and flooding have also caused problems in the wake of an early-January thaw. READ »

Swedish actor confirmed dead in house fire

Society: 5 Jan 11
The remains found in Swedish Millennium trilogy actor Per Oscarsson's burned home have now been identified. It is now clear that it was the actor and his wife who died in a fire on New Year's Eve. READ »

Remains found at site of Swedish actor's home

Society: 3 Jan 11
Fears mounted that actor Per Oscarsson, who appeared in the Swedish film adaptations of the "Millennium" trilogy, had died along with his wife after human remains were discovered among the ashes of their burned home. READ »

'Drunkenness aplenty, but little violence': police

Society: 1 Jan 11
Drunkenness aplenty, but not much blood, was Gotland's police station's summary of the events of New Year's Eve, a summary that seems to apply for much of Sweden. READ »

Winter once again wreaks havoc across Sweden

Science & Technology: 19 Dec 10
Swedes were coping with yet another round of fierce winter weather on Sunday as a band of snow showers moved north across the country, sending cars off the roads and dumping up to 20 centimetres of fresh snow in its wake. READ »

Swedish neo-Nazi booted from local council

Politics: 17 Dec 10
A Swedish neo-Nazi has lost his seat on a local council in Grästorp in western Sweden after authorities discovered that he does not live in the municipality. READ »

Swedish companies spend less on R&D

Business & Money: 2 Dec 10
Swedish enterprises are spending less on research and development, with the majority of spending concentrated in the country's metropolitan areas. READ »

Swedish law behind rise in HIV cases: experts

Science & Technology: 1 Dec 10
Four experts on HIV and criminal law have called for an overhaul of the law against infectious diseases act on World AIDS Day, alleging that the duty of disclosure has resulted in a spike in new Swedish HIV cases. READ »

Refugee child denied care by Swedish hospital

National: 24 Nov 10
A hospital in central Sweden refused to perform an operation on a 16-year-old unaccompanied refugee boy because the doctor didn't think the hospital would be reimbursed for the procedure. READ »

Sweden braces for new winter storm

Science & Technology: 22 Nov 10
Another blast of winter weather is set to sweep across much of Sweden in the coming days, bringing heavy snowfall and bone-chilling winds to many parts of the country. READ »

Men locked in mosque during terror raid

National: 11 Nov 10
The Gothenburg police are facing more criticism following revelations that they locked eight men in a mosque when responding to a terror threat on October 30th. READ »

Gothenburg terror probe 'shut down'

National: 9 Nov 10
The preliminary investigation into four Gothenburg men suspected of preparing acts of terrorism has been abandoned, Swedish security service Säpo confirmed on Tuesday. READ »

Neo-Nazi takes seat in local Swedish council

Politics: 5 Nov 10
A newly elected municipal council representative from a neo-Nazi nationalist party started his first day as an elected official in western Sweden with a lesson on the ABCs of democracy. READ »

Police reported over Gothenburg terror threat

National: 4 Nov 10
The arrest of four people on suspicion of preparing a terrorist crime has been reported and will be reviewed by a prosecutor, while confusion remains over just how many suspects are involved in the investigation. READ »

Gothenburg police remain on their guard

National: 31 Oct 10
Swedish police maintained a raised level of readiness following the bomb threat in Gothenburg, while two people remained in custody. READ »

Police arrest 20 women in child porn raids

National: 20 Oct 10
Swedish police on Wednesday raided a series of locations across the country, arresting 23 people on suspicion of serious child pornography offences. Twenty of the suspects were women, described by the police as 'very unusual'. READ »

Surprise rise in Swedish bankruptcies

Business & Money: 6 Oct 10
Bankruptcies rose 15 percent in September, snapping the streak of declining bankruptcies observed so far this year. READ »

Murder suspect held after Gothenburg body find

National: 29 Sep 10
A man was arrested on Tuesday on suspicions of having murdered a 27-year-old woman whose body was discovered in Gothenburg on Monday evening. READ »

Police find dead body in Gothenburg

National: 28 Sep 10
A human body found in the Hisingen area of Gothenburg on Monday evening is presumed by police to be connected to a crime. The body was found in connection with a search for two young people who disappeared at the weekend. READ »

Saab reported to debt collectors

Business & Money: 21 Sep 10
Swedish carmaker Saab Automobile has been been referred to the Swedish Enforcement Service for the collection of outstanding debts by the administrative board of Västra Götaland county. READ »

Big increase in prostitution reports

Society: 27 Jul 10
The number of people reported to the police for buying sex has risen five-fold in Sweden in the past year, according to new figures. READ »

Sunday heat record proves lull before storm

National: 12 Jul 10
The weekend saw record temperatures across much of Sweden with Saturday's high beaten on Sunday by the 35 degrees recorded in Målilla in southern Sweden, before thunder and rain gave welcome respite on Sunday evening. READ »

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