Residents in part of Sundsvall, northern Sweden have been told to keep their doors closed and schoolchildren were kept inside during breaktimes after unusually large rats were spotted in the neighbourhood.
A wave of heavy snow in central and northern Sweden has caused trains to be cancelled and schools to close as even Swedes accustomed to tougher conditions struggle to beat the elements.
It is not that Sundsvall is not a nice town. It is just that it is not normally the place where Hollywood stars go for a night out. So rumours that Elijah Wood was visiting the town quickly went viral on Thursday.
A number of Swedish workers were on Tuesday thankful to be alive after their company car was crushed by a 30-tonne block of concrete that fell off a bridge in northern Sweden.
UPDATED: Police in Sweden were on Tuesday morning hunting for a 26-year-old convicted criminal who went on the run from a psychiatric ward in the north-east of the country.
A 25-year-old woman picked up from driving drunk in northern Sweden left law enforcement officials astounded after it was revealed her blood alcohol level had reached heights they'd never seen before.
Football fans and music lovers alike have found a common idol of late in Kevin Walker, a half-Irish half-Swedish footballer turned singer who survived a near-fatal poisoning and now has women swooning and the television heads grinning.
Some 40,000 residents of Sundsvall in northern Sweden may have been exposed to contaminated water following the discovery of coliform bacteria in the city's mains water supply.
Bird-watcher and nature enthusiast <b>Leelene Karlsson</b> presents Sundsvall for this week's My Sweden, explaining that a gigantic ice lolly, a cross-dressing singer, and life in a wok pan make Sundsvall the ideal Swedish town.
A suspected fraudster in northern Sweden is under investigation for allegedly swindling the state out of 20 million kronor ($3 million) by claiming to be disabled, in what is being described as one of the biggest scams of its kind in recent years.
An elderly woman died from the injuries she sustained after falling out of her hospital bed at Sundsvall’s hospital in northern Sweden, where more similar falls have occurred recently.
The man who went on a wild rampage through Sundsvall in March, wielding a machete as his weapon, was sentenced to eight years in prison on Friday for the series of attacks in which he hijacked a minivan and caused one woman to lose an eye.
A 33-year-old man who went on a wild machete-wielding rampage in Sundsvall in northern Sweden in March was not insane at the time, forensic psychiatrists have determined.
A man was formally charged with assault in northern Sweden on Tuesday after the victim of a brutal bashing used Facebook to ascertain his attacker's identity.
The man who attacked a woman with a machete last week, injuring her badly, flew into a rage once more on Saturday and attacked the staff of the psychiatric clinic where he's currently being treated, according to local media.
A machete-wielding man went on a wild rampage in northern Sweden on Thursday, first slashing a woman in the face before hijacking a minivan filled with students.
