Roma beggars became a common sight in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö in 2014. Now, growing numbers are making their way to the country's most northerly city Umeå, where temperatures regularly drop below -10C in winter. The Local's Editor Maddy Savage went to meet some of them.
UPDATED: Sweden’s foreign minister cancelled a trip to Israel last week because no Israeli official was willing to meet her, it has been claimed. On Thursday the country's opposition parties criticized her approach to relations with the Middle East.
Swedish furniture company Ikea has recalled 169,000 crib mattresses in the US, after reports that two children became trapped, America’s consumer watchdog has announced.
The word for 'yes' in most of Sweden is 'ja', but in the north of the country a unique sound is used instead, as The Local's Oliver Gee discovered in the city of Umeå.
UPDATED: The president of the Swedish Pirate Party's youth wing has told The Local that Sweden's leading security and military experts searched for 'holidays' and 'forest hikes' during working hours, after he tricked them into logging onto an unsecure server at a conference.
The Swedish Church in Paris has announced it is broadcasting a live online service to remember the victims of the attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo last week.
Stockholm will host one of the world's leading electronic music festivals, Sonar, next month. Co-director Enric Palau chats to The Local about why an event born in the Spanish sunshine is now warming up cities across Scandinavia.
As France prepares to mark one week since the terror attack on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, The Local quizzes Sweden's Home Affairs Minister Anders Ygeman about rising extremism both at home and abroad.
As the world continues to debate freedom of expression in the wake of the attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo last week, Swedish sociologist Jan Oberg explains why he feels Swedes - and others - are not Charlie.
After announcing that she wants to send Swedish military staff to Iraq, Sweden’s Foreign Minister Margot Wallström has told The Local that the move is designed to 'share responsibility' for tackling extremism.
Speculation is growing that Sweden's Princess Madeleine and her husband are planning to relocate to London, after temporarily moving to Stockholm from New York.
A music video about penises and vaginas from a Swedish children's programme that went viral last week, was classified by YouTube as 'adult' content over the weekend, sparking a new row about the song.
Scandinavian airline SAS has announced a boost to its passenger numbers, with 7.1 percent more people travelling with the company in December 2014 compared with a year ago.
Vasja Petkovska left sunny Skopje in Macedonia to work in Stockholm a year ago. For this week's My Swedish Career, the snow-loving IT consultant tells The Local how she's warming up to the idea of living here for good.
Several train routes in west Sweden were facing severe delays on Monday after a heavy storm - known as Egon - hit the region over the weekend, while thousands remained without power.
Around three thousand people gathered in Stockholm’s main square on Sunday in solidarity with the journalists killed in Paris last week. Police said they could not remember a gathering so large during winter in the city, as The Local's Maddy Savage reports.
Global media have been gazing on the luxury island owned by champion golfer Tiger Woods and his Swedish ex-wife Elin Nordegren, which has recently gone on sale.
Mikael Marcimain's film Gentlemen picked up a record number of Guldbagge nominations on Thursday, ahead of Sweden's leading film award ceremony later this month.
There has been strong criticism of the Paris shootings from Muslim leaders who already fear growing Islamophobia following recent attacks on Swedish mosques. But some Swedish Muslim extremists have backed Wednesday's attack on a French satirical magazine.
Officials in Stockholm say they have found evidence that a wolf pack has formed in the south of the city, including tracks, droppings and urine spotted when snow fell earlier this week.
