https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Stockholm will start rolling out parking fines for electric scooters, whose increasing popularity in recent years has not come without side effects in Swedish cities. https://www.thelocal.se/20210202/stockholm-rolls-out-parking-fines-for-electric-scooters Tue, 02 Feb 2021 12:01:40 +0100 stockholm-rolls-out-parking-fines-for-electric-scooters A mini tornado off the coast of the Swedish city of Helsingborg left locals staring agape. https://www.thelocal.se/20190809/in-pictures-mini-tornado-spotted-off-the-coast-of-southern-sweden Fri, 09 Aug 2019 09:41:05 +0200 in-pictures-mini-tornado-spotted-off-the-coast-of-southern-sweden MY SWEDISH CAREER: From New York to Paris, Tokyo to Stockholm, the benefits of living in heaving metropoles are well-documented. But, as Indian Parul Ghosh discovered when she moved from Delhi to Helsingborg, there's joy to be found in living in a smaller town. https://www.thelocal.se/20190702/my-swedish-career-theres-more-to-sweden-than-just-the-big-cities Tue, 02 Jul 2019 09:59:59 +0200 my-swedish-career-theres-more-to-sweden-than-just-the-big-cities The Swedish Transport Agency has called for electric scooters to be banned from the road after a 27-year-old man died in a crash while riding one of the hyped vehicles. https://www.thelocal.se/20190531/swedish-transport-agency-calls-for-ban-on-electric-scooters-after-fatal-crash Fri, 31 May 2019 14:28:55 +0200 swedish-transport-agency-calls-for-ban-on-electric-scooters-after-fatal-crash A man suspected of stabbing a Jewish woman in the Swedish city of Helsingborg has been caught in Denmark. Swedish police do not currently believe the attack was linked to anti-Semitic motives. https://www.thelocal.se/20190515/man-held-over-knife-attack-on-jewish-woman-in-sweden Wed, 15 May 2019 13:07:36 +0200 man-held-over-knife-attack-on-jewish-woman-in-sweden A Jewish woman is fighting for her life after she was stabbed on the street in the centre of the Swedish city of Helsingborg early on Tuesday morning. https://www.thelocal.se/20190514/jewish-woman-stabbed-in-southern-sweden-helsingborg Tue, 14 May 2019 16:37:14 +0200 jewish-woman-stabbed-in-southern-sweden-helsingborg A Norwegian hunter who shot a jogger in the thigh probably thought he was shooting a deer, a Swedish court has ruled. https://www.thelocal.se/20190418/hunter-who-shot-jogger-in-sweden-found-innocent Thu, 18 Apr 2019 18:40:16 +0200 hunter-who-shot-jogger-in-sweden-found-innocent A city in southern Sweden is trying to fight loneliness among old and young Swedes and immigrants with a new apartment building where residents are required to socialize with each other for at least two hours a week. https://www.thelocal.se/20190410/the-swedish-apartments-where-it-is-compulsory-to-chat-to-neighbours Wed, 10 Apr 2019 12:33:48 +0200 the-swedish-apartments-where-it-is-compulsory-to-chat-to-neighbours One of Sweden's leading symphony orchestras is to ban conductors and soloists who come to play with it from coming by plane, in what it is billing as "the world's first sustainable orchestral season". https://www.thelocal.se/20190222/swedish-orchestra-to-ban-soloists-and-conductors-from-flying Fri, 22 Feb 2019 18:49:30 +0100 swedish-orchestra-to-ban-soloists-and-conductors-from-flying Several people were "slightly injured" after two trains collided in southern Sweden on Thursday evening, rescue services said. https://www.thelocal.se/20190208/train-collision-in-southern-sweden-leaves-several-people-injured Fri, 08 Feb 2019 08:44:47 +0100 train-collision-in-southern-sweden-leaves-several-people-injured Every week one of The Local's readers takes over our Instagram account. Today Parul Ghosh from India shows us her Helsingborg. https://www.thelocal.se/20190125/mysweden-helsingborg-is-the-perfect-mix-of-a-city-and-a-town Fri, 25 Jan 2019 09:15:42 +0100 mysweden-helsingborg-is-the-perfect-mix-of-a-city-and-a-town Sweden's famous Museum of Failure is upping sticks to move to Shanghai after closing on Saturday. Here's a feature from when it was still open. https://www.thelocal.se/20190107/swedens-museum-of-failure-and-the-trump-board-game Mon, 07 Jan 2019 09:10:50 +0100 swedens-museum-of-failure-and-the-trump-board-game Furniture giant Ikea is to shut down its office in Helsingborg, where 180 people are employed, and divide its operations between its Älmhult HQ and Malmö. https://www.thelocal.se/20180908/ikea-to-move-helsingborg-staff-to-malm Sat, 08 Sep 2018 09:21:31 +0200 ikea-to-move-helsingborg-staff-to-malm Four young men were hurt in a shooting in central Helsingborg on Saturday night. https://www.thelocal.se/20180701/four-injured-in-helsingborg-shooting Sun, 01 Jul 2018 06:06:21 +0200 four-injured-in-helsingborg-shooting One person has been killed and several injured in a brawl in Swedish city Helsingborg. https://www.thelocal.se/20180307/helsingborg-brawl-leaves-one-dead-and-several-injured Wed, 07 Mar 2018 09:20:03 +0100 helsingborg-brawl-leaves-one-dead-and-several-injured While the rest of Sweden and many parts of Europe battle the 'Beast from the East', a freak weather phenomenon has left one Swedish city asking what all the fuss is about as not a single flake falls. https://www.thelocal.se/20180301/this-swedish-city-is-completely-untouched-by-the-beast-from-the-east-helsingborg-snow Thu, 01 Mar 2018 11:31:08 +0100 this-swedish-city-is-completely-untouched-by-the-beast-from-the-east-helsingborg-snow A man who tried to cash counterfeit traveller's cheques in southern Sweden has been cleared of fraud – because he was in love, the court ruled. https://www.thelocal.se/20180131/swedish-courts-clears-man-of-fraud-because-he-was-in-love Wed, 31 Jan 2018 09:11:18 +0100 swedish-courts-clears-man-of-fraud-because-he-was-in-love A teenager and two men in their twenties have been arrested after a large brawl in Swedish city Helsingborg resulted in one death and multiple injuries. https://www.thelocal.se/20180122/one-dead-and-two-injured-in-helsingborg-youth-brawl Mon, 22 Jan 2018 09:54:09 +0100 one-dead-and-two-injured-in-helsingborg-youth-brawl Apartments in Helsingborg, southern Sweden, were evacuated after an explosion in the early hours of Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.se/20180102/apartments-evacuated-after-explosion-in-helsingborg Tue, 02 Jan 2018 09:17:11 +0100 apartments-evacuated-after-explosion-in-helsingborg A police station in the southern Swedish city of Helsingborg was hit by a powerful explosion in the early hours of Wednesday morning. https://www.thelocal.se/20171018/helsingborg-police-station-damaged-by-blast-in-southern-sweden Wed, 18 Oct 2017 11:00:16 +0200 helsingborg-police-station-damaged-by-blast-in-southern-sweden