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 A historic red wooden church considered one of Sweden's most beautiful buildings has arrived at its new home after travelling for two days at snail's pace across the city. https://www.thelocal.se/20250820/historic-swedish-church-inches-closer-to-new-home Wed, 20 Aug 2025 15:37:37 +0200 historic-swedish-church-inches-closer-to-new-home With great fanfare, a historic red wooden church considered one of Sweden's most beautiful buildings began to move on Tuesday from its longtime home in the Arctic town of Kiruna to make way for a mine expansion. Watch the process in real time on Sweden's public broadcaster SVT. https://www.thelocal.se/20250819/great-reverence-historic-swedish-wooden-church-starts-being-moved Tue, 19 Aug 2025 10:54:30 +0200 great-reverence-historic-swedish-wooden-church-starts-being-moved A historic red wooden church considered one of Sweden's most beautiful buildings is to be moved from its longtime home in the Arctic town of Kiruna next week as part of a campaign to expand Europe's biggest underground mine. https://www.thelocal.se/20250815/historic-swedish-church-to-be-moved-to-make-way-for-mine Fri, 15 Aug 2025 17:47:43 +0200 historic-swedish-church-to-be-moved-to-make-way-for-mine Sweden's northernmost city, Kiruna, is moving three kilometres to make way for underground mining expansion. But not everyone's happy about the move. https://www.thelocal.se/20230118/in-pictures-historic-kiruna-move-leaves-behind-ghost-town-of-memories Wed, 18 Jan 2023 13:25:44 +0100 in-pictures-historic-kiruna-move-leaves-behind-ghost-town-of-memories Part of a rocket launch pad was destroyed after a large fire at the Esrange scientific space research centre in northern Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20210827/fire-tears-through-northern-swedish-space-research-centre Fri, 27 Aug 2021 10:03:12 +0200 fire-tears-through-northern-swedish-space-research-centre Sweden's state-owned mining company LKAB has committed to investing hundreds of billions of kronor to go carbon-neutral by 2045, described as potentially the largest industrial investment ever in the Nordic country. https://www.thelocal.se/20201124/swedens-state-miner-to-invest-400-billion-kronor-in-fossil-free-iron Tue, 24 Nov 2020 08:38:30 +0100 swedens-state-miner-to-invest-400-billion-kronor-in-fossil-free-iron Work remained suspended at one of the world's largest iron ore mines on Tuesday morning as 300 workers descended to survey the scope of the damage after a record-breaking earthquake hit northern Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20200519/mine-workers-return-to-inspect-damage-left-by-record-earthquake-in-sweden Tue, 19 May 2020 10:14:53 +0200 mine-workers-return-to-inspect-damage-left-by-record-earthquake-in-sweden A record earthquake shook the city of Kiruna and its iconic iron ore mine on Monday. https://www.thelocal.se/20200518/record-earthquake-hits-mine-in-northern-sweden-kiruna Mon, 18 May 2020 14:59:27 +0200 record-earthquake-hits-mine-in-northern-sweden-kiruna The shortest day of the year has come and gone, and Sweden is heading towards brighter times. https://www.thelocal.se/20191223/the-days-are-already-getting-longer-in-sweden-winter-solstice Mon, 23 Dec 2019 08:39:30 +0100 the-days-are-already-getting-longer-in-sweden-winter-solstice It's once again midnight sun time in Kiruna, Sweden's northernmost city. https://www.thelocal.se/20190528/the-sun-wont-go-down-over-swedens-northernmost-town-for-months Tue, 28 May 2019 17:47:33 +0200 the-sun-wont-go-down-over-swedens-northernmost-town-for-months Kiruna, Sweden's most northerly town, is being relocated eastwards building by building in order to ensure its survival. But when you move an entire town, what happens to the remains of its dead? https://www.thelocal.se/20190416/in-northern-sweden-an-entire-city-is-being-moved-but-what-happens-to-those-buried-there-kiruna Tue, 16 Apr 2019 17:06:59 +0200 in-northern-sweden-an-entire-city-is-being-moved-but-what-happens-to-those-buried-there-kiruna Six Swiss nationals were killed in a road accident in Sweden's far north when the minibus they were in collided with a truck, Swedish police and Swiss officials said on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.se/20190113/six-swiss-nationals-die-in-road-crash-in-sweden Sun, 13 Jan 2019 14:31:16 +0100 six-swiss-nationals-die-in-road-crash-in-sweden Most of Sweden is currently grappling with below zero temperatures and bracing for strong winds, but in the north of the country there's reason to celebrate with the sun appearing above the horizon this week for the first time in 2019. https://www.thelocal.se/20190110/the-sun-has-returned-to-swedens-most-northerly-city Thu, 10 Jan 2019 11:36:26 +0100 the-sun-has-returned-to-swedens-most-northerly-city Treriksröset, the most northern point in Sweden, has had its last glimpse of the sun in 2018. https://www.thelocal.se/20181202/northernmost-point-in-sweden-sees-sun-for-last-time-this-year Sun, 02 Dec 2018 11:43:02 +0100 northernmost-point-in-sweden-sees-sun-for-last-time-this-year A German couple on a tour of Arctic Sweden had to be rescued on Monday after driving their hire car down a cross-country ski track they mistook for a road. https://www.thelocal.se/20180206/german-tourists-rescued-after-mistaking-swedish-ski-track-for-road Tue, 06 Feb 2018 14:24:46 +0100 german-tourists-rescued-after-mistaking-swedish-ski-track-for-road Spectacular Northern Lights lit up parts of Sweden over the weekend. Social media was awash with beautiful depictions of the dazzling show. https://www.thelocal.se/20170904/spectacular-northern-lights-dazzle-northern-sweden Mon, 04 Sep 2017 14:33:03 +0200 spectacular-northern-lights-dazzle-northern-sweden Travel writer Rossella Tatti on multicultural encounters on board the Arctic Polar Circle train to Swedish Lapland. https://www.thelocal.se/20170614/tales-of-the-midnight-sun-on-the-night-train-from-kiruna-to-stockholm Wed, 14 Jun 2017 13:58:32 +0200 tales-of-the-midnight-sun-on-the-night-train-from-kiruna-to-stockholm As many as 70 tourists have been stranded in Arctic Lapland in temperatures below -30C, after Sweden’s national train company SJ cancelled a string of trains due to excess cold. https://www.thelocal.se/20170106/tourists-stranded-in-frozen-arctic-as-swedish-trains-cancelled Fri, 06 Jan 2017 16:13:28 +0100 tourists-stranded-in-frozen-arctic-as-swedish-trains-cancelled Plans to demolish an old railway bridge could leave a village in northern Sweden isolated by removing the only road in and out. https://www.thelocal.se/20161213/an-entire-swedish-village-could-soon-be-left-isolated Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:25:11 +0100 an-entire-swedish-village-could-soon-be-left-isolated The summer may be warming up for most of us in Europe, but for residents of northern Swedish town Kiruna, winter made a dramatic late return on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.se/20160610/snowmen-in-summer-what-northern-sweden-looks-like-right-now Fri, 10 Jun 2016 14:44:54 +0200 snowmen-in-summer-what-northern-sweden-looks-like-right-now