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 A landslide slammed into a Swiss village on Tuesday after days of heavy rain, destroying half a dozen houses but causing no injuries, media reported. https://www.thelocal.ch/20230830/houses-destroyed-in-swiss-landslide Wed, 30 Aug 2023 11:05:41 +0200 houses-destroyed-in-swiss-landslide Authorities say that inhabitants of a small Swiss village, which narrowly escaped being wiped off the map when part of the mountain towering above it collapsed, are now safe to return home. https://www.thelocal.ch/20230704/residents-of-swiss-village-given-green-light-to-return-home-after-landslide Tue, 04 Jul 2023 14:09:53 +0200 residents-of-swiss-village-given-green-light-to-return-home-after-landslide A Swiss village evacuated because of rockslide danger was spared "by a hair" when part of the mountain towering above the hamlet crashed down overnight, local officials said on Friday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20230616/rockslide-just-misses-evacuated-swiss-village Fri, 16 Jun 2023 11:05:02 +0200 rockslide-just-misses-evacuated-swiss-village Local authorities have ordered the 85 inhabitants of Brienz, a small community in the Swiss canton of Graubünden, to pack their bags and leave their homes "immediately and indefinitely". https://www.thelocal.ch/20230511/why-residents-are-being-ordered-to-leave-a-swiss-mountain-village Thu, 11 May 2023 13:24:56 +0200 why-residents-are-being-ordered-to-leave-a-swiss-mountain-village 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 Two mountain workers are missing after being swept away in a rockslide in the Swiss Alps on Tuesday afternoon, police said. https://www.thelocal.ch/20171011/two-missing-after-rockslide-in-swiss-alps Wed, 11 Oct 2017 10:35:06 +0200 two-missing-after-rockslide-in-swiss-alps 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 The search for eight hikers missing in the Swiss Alps has been called off, police announced on Saturday, three days after they were lost in a massive landslide. https://www.thelocal.ch/20170826/search-for-eight-missing-in-alps-called-off-swiss-police Sat, 26 Aug 2017 18:36:48 +0200 search-for-eight-missing-in-alps-called-off-swiss-police 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 Technicians are working to restart an old funicular put out of service in 1998 in order to provide an emergency link to the mountain village of Bristen, cut off since Sunday by a landslide. https://www.thelocal.ch/20170310/100-year-old-funicular-resurrected-to-reach-swiss-village-cut-off-by-landslip Fri, 10 Mar 2017 11:37:49 +0100 100-year-old-funicular-resurrected-to-reach-swiss-village-cut-off-by-landslip Five hundred passengers from an Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) train were evacuated on Sunday afternoon after a landslide in the canton of Fribourg cut rail traffic between Bern and Lausanne. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150503/swiss-train-passengers-evacuated-after-landslide Sun, 03 May 2015 21:41:07 +0200 swiss-train-passengers-evacuated-after-landslide