Kiruna saw its first rays of sunshine in three weeks on New Year's Day and soon the sun will be returning to reclaim the rest of Norrland County from the winter's 24-hour polar nights.
With flights into space scheduled to take off from far northern Sweden within a few years, AFP's <b>Camille Bas-Wohlert</b> finds out exactly what's on the cards for eager space tourists.
Swedish forecasters are warning that winter is making another appearance in Sweden over the next few days, and have issued warnings for slippery roads and harsh winds.
Rescue teams have located wreckage of the missing Norwegian Hercules aircraft near Sweden's highest peak, military sources confirmed Friday evening, as the search continues for the five officers who were on board when the plane disappeared on Thursday.
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.
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
A Swedish dog sledder's perceived racist insults ruined a recent reunion of Iranian graduates in Kiruna and left their Sweden-based host "ashamed" of inviting her friends to the country.
The plunging mercury has put a stop to rail services to the far north of Sweden on Sunday with rail operator SJ explaining that it was just too cold to guarantee safety.
Swedish scientists were forced to halt a groundbreaking project Thursday to test the impact of stars when a balloon carrying an X-ray telescope began leaking helium.
A man and a woman in their fifties were seriously injured on Saturday evening when they were struck by lightning in the village of Lainio, 100 kilomtres east of Kiruna in the far north of Sweden.
<b>Winter in a picturesque snowbound town can instil in the visitor a true appreciation for life in the far north of Sweden. But a dearth of jobs and a surplus of solitude help explain the region's growing demographic crisis, writes Alec Forss. Part two in a two-part series.</b>
<b>Macho men, monotony, mosquitoes: Englishman Alec Forss heard all the clichés trotted out as he made known his plans to move to northern Sweden. But nothing could deter him from plunging headlong into the vast wilderness beyond the Arctic circle. Part one in a two-part series.</b>
Winter has not yet fallen upon Sweden but Kiruna council is getting prepared and proposing the right for residents to drive their snowmobiles around the city.
Potential space tourists eager to blast off from northern Sweden will soon be able to purchase tickets at the country’s Ice Hotel for launches set to start in 2012.
Two Sami villages in northern Sweden have been denied compensation from the state-owned mining company LKAB for the time village representatives spent on planning for the relocation of Kiruna.
One person has been found dead after a collapse in a mine in Kiruna, northern Sweden. The man was found at 4am after an eight hour search. The collapse is believed to have been caused by an earth tremor.
One person is feared dead after a collapse in a mine in Kiruna, northern Sweden. The search for the missing person was being hampered on Saturday night by concern over the risk of further collapses. The collapse is believed to have been caused by an earth tremor.
Wildcat strikes have broken out among miners at Sweden's state-owned mining company LKAB. Miners started the unauthorized walkout on Monday, and on Tuesday morning work was at a standstill in Kiruna, in the far north of Sweden.
