https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Switzerland in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed The village of Bondo in the Val Bregaglia region of Graubünden is once more under threat of rockfalls just a few months after residents began to return home following a huge landslide that hit the village in August. https://www.thelocal.ch/20180209/graubnden-village-faces-new-rockfall-threat Fri, 09 Feb 2018 10:22:34 +0100 graubnden-village-faces-new-rockfall-threat The Swiss village of Bondo that was hit by a massive landslide in August is at risk of further rockfalls. https://www.thelocal.ch/20171215/report-further-landslides-likely-in-bondo Fri, 15 Dec 2017 13:43:58 +0100 report-further-landslides-likely-in-bondo Around 65 residents of Bondo, the Graubünden village that was hit by a major landslide in August, were finally able to return to their homes on Saturday, nearly two months after the disaster. https://www.thelocal.ch/20171016/residents-of-landslide-hit-bondo-finally-return-home Mon, 16 Oct 2017 11:02:51 +0200 residents-of-landslide-hit-bondo-finally-return-home Swiss Solidarity has received more than five million francs in donations in aid of the Graubünden village of Bondo and surroundings, which was devastated by a landslide in August. https://www.thelocal.ch/20171004/swiss-people-give-five-million-francs-to-landslide-hit-bondo Wed, 04 Oct 2017 12:36:27 +0200 swiss-people-give-five-million-francs-to-landslide-hit-bondo The Val Bregaglia in the canton of Graubünden is once again accessible by car 24/7 as the road reopens a month after it was cut off by one of the biggest landslides in Switzerland’s history. https://www.thelocal.ch/20170926/val-bregaglia-road-reopens-a-month-after-massive-landslide Tue, 26 Sep 2017 11:15:39 +0200 val-bregaglia-road-reopens-a-month-after-massive-landslide The state-of-the-art radar system that enabled experts to predict the collapse of the Trift glacier on Sunday and evacuate residents in advance was installed just a few days earlier, Swiss media reported on Monday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20170911/radar-that-predicted-trift-glacier-collapse-was-installed-just-days-earlier Mon, 11 Sep 2017 14:15:34 +0200 radar-that-predicted-trift-glacier-collapse-was-installed-just-days-earlier Local dairy farmers in the landslide-hit Val Bregaglia had a victory against the elements on Friday when they managed to rescue 1.2 tons of cheese from a storeroom just hours before the building filled up with mud and debris. https://www.thelocal.ch/20170905/precious-cheese-rescued-from-landslide-hit-graubnden-valley Tue, 05 Sep 2017 12:04:04 +0200 precious-cheese-rescued-from-landslide-hit-graubnden-valley Another major landslide sent rocks and mud towards the beleaguered village of Bondo in the canton of Graubünden on Thursday night, village authorities said. https://www.thelocal.ch/20170901/storm-sparks-another-big-landslide-in-bondo-switzerland Fri, 01 Sep 2017 11:13:24 +0200 storm-sparks-another-big-landslide-in-bondo-switzerland The inhabitants of the village of Bondo, hit by a massive landslide last week, have been told that reconstructing the village could take years, Swiss media have reported. https://www.thelocal.ch/20170830/clear-up-after-swiss-landslide-could-take-several-years Wed, 30 Aug 2017 11:24:13 +0200 clear-up-after-swiss-landslide-could-take-several-years Police in Graubünden are investigating whether hikers in the area that was hit by a huge landslide last week were given sufficient warning about the risks. https://www.thelocal.ch/20170828/bondo-landslide-did-hikers-get-sufficient-warning-switzerland Mon, 28 Aug 2017 13:26:01 +0200 bondo-landslide-did-hikers-get-sufficient-warning-switzerland Search teams on Friday morning resumed looking for the eight people still missing after the massive landslide that swept away a mountainside in Graubünden on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20170825/graubnden-landslide-no-one-expected-this-kind-of-catastrophe Fri, 25 Aug 2017 11:07:26 +0200 graubnden-landslide-no-one-expected-this-kind-of-catastrophe Eight people, including German, Austrian and Swiss citizens, are missing following a landslide that forced the evacuation of several small villages in southeastern Switzerland on Wednesday, police said on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20170824/eight-people-missing-after-graubnden-rockfall-police Thu, 24 Aug 2017 13:28:58 +0200 eight-people-missing-after-graubnden-rockfall-police