An intense snowstorm in eastern Sweden on Saturday sparked two massive road accidents involving dozens of vehicles and leaving more than 100 people needing hospital treatment, officials said.
A Swedish court on Friday sentenced a man to three years in jail for joining the Islamic State group, the country's first conviction since new legislation was introduced banning participation in a terrorist group.
Reindeer apparently slain in a grisly manner and a conflict between local Sami reindeer herders and organisers have cast a shadow over one of Sweden's most famous rally events.
A Swedish hospital which last year revealed that 33 women had undergone unnecessary hysterectomies in 2023 and 2024 due to mistaken cancer diagnoses said it had uncovered 11 more cases from 2022.
The Swedish government has given the go-ahead to begin building the next stage of the North Bothnia railway line in northern Sweden, seen as crucial for the green industrial transition.
The suspected gunman in Sweden's worst mass shooting fired more than 50 shots and had lived in isolation for several years, police said, revealing more details about the massacre.
Sweden has locked up a 52-year-old woman for 12 years on genocide charges, in the country's first court case over crimes committed by the Islamic State group against the Yazidi minority.
A prosecutor on Monday confirmed that Rickard Andersson, whose name had already been revealed by Swedish media, is the man suspected of killing 10 people in the worst mass shooting in the history of Sweden.
Swedish police said at a press conference on Thursday that "multiple nationalities" figured among the victims in a mass shooting that left 10 dead plus the shooter in the city of Örebro.
Sweden has seized a ship suspected of damaging fiber-optic cable linking the country to Latvia, in the latest incidents of suspected Baltic Sea sabotage.
Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson returned to profit in 2024 and sales inched up in the final quarter of the year, it said Friday, as the sector struggles with slowing demand for 5G network equipment.
Swedish prosecutors on Monday asked a court to remand in detention a convicted Swedish jihadist for his suspected involvement in the 2014 killing of a Jordanian pilot in Syria.
A day after Belgium warned against eating Christmas trees, Swedish officials said that the needles can be safely used to make butter and other products – as long as the trees are young and wild.
Northvolt could breathe a sigh of relief after shareholders at an extraordinary general meeting allowed the crisis-hit battery maker to avoid liquidation.
Shareholders in Swedish electric car battery maker Northvolt will meet on Wednesday, with the financially-strained company's board hoping to keep it operating and avoid liquidation, it said.
Sweden's government said on Wednesday it wanted to give police the power to secretly monitor phone calls and electronic communications of those under 15 years of age, in response to a surge in gang violence in the Nordic country.
Swedish police on Monday said that there were no grounds to suspect a crime in the unexplained deaths of three workers from ailing battery-maker Northvolt's factory in Sweden.
Sweden's financial watchdog slapped a 500 million kronor ($45 million) fine on fintech company Klarna for not doing enough to prevent money laundering.
Sweden's civil defence minister initially said 'sabotage' was suspected after two damaged cables were discovered between Sweden and Finland, but it's now been confirmed both incidents were accidents.
Three people with alleged ties to the Islamic State are facing trial in Sweden over allegations they plotted terrorist acts, including against Jewish interests, and tried to find minors to carry them out.
