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 The city authorities in Luleå in the far north of Sweden have launched a campaign to encourage its famously reserved citizens to say hello to one another a little more often. https://www.thelocal.se/20231107/swedish-city-launches-campaign-to-get-locals-to-say-hi Tue, 07 Nov 2023 15:52:32 +0100 swedish-city-launches-campaign-to-get-locals-to-say-hi Ben Robertson travelled to the industrial town of Luleå to watch Melodifestivalen's third heat last week. But is it worth the while of small towns to host Sweden's hyped Eurovision Song Contest try-outs? https://www.thelocal.se/20200221/should-little-lule-have-hosted-melodifestivalen Fri, 21 Feb 2020 18:12:17 +0100 should-little-lule-have-hosted-melodifestivalen A hare in Luleå, northern Sweden, made a tragic misjudgement while visiting a playground in the city, ending up stuck between two planks of a fence. https://www.thelocal.se/20190530/hare-in-sweden-gets-trapped-in-fence-in-tragic-error Thu, 30 May 2019 19:47:29 +0200 hare-in-sweden-gets-trapped-in-fence-in-tragic-error A record amount of snowfall in northern Sweden has left one city with a dilemma, as the snow looks likely to survive the entire summer despite a June heatwave. https://www.thelocal.se/20180627/record-amount-of-snow-may-survive-the-whole-summer-in-northern-sweden Wed, 27 Jun 2018 18:32:27 +0200 record-amount-of-snow-may-survive-the-whole-summer-in-northern-sweden Three people have been arrested in connection with the shooting of a man in Luleå, northern Sweden on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.se/20180611/three-arrested-man-shot-in-lulea Mon, 11 Jun 2018 09:16:30 +0200 three-arrested-man-shot-in-lulea A group of passengers landed more than 1,000 kilometres from their destination, after they all got on the wrong flight. https://www.thelocal.se/20180313/plane-lands-at-wrong-airport-in-northern-sweden-lulea-gothenburg Tue, 13 Mar 2018 09:09:39 +0100 plane-lands-at-wrong-airport-in-northern-sweden-lulea-gothenburg Social media giant Facebook is planning to expand its operations in northern Sweden, according to reports. https://www.thelocal.se/20180312/facebook-plans-further-expansion-in-sweden-report Mon, 12 Mar 2018 18:07:41 +0100 facebook-plans-further-expansion-in-sweden-report A Swedish travel agency was left red-faced after it mixed up some of northern Sweden's biggest towns in an advert. https://www.thelocal.se/20170413/travel-agency-gets-its-swedish-geography-very-wrong Thu, 13 Apr 2017 13:30:55 +0200 travel-agency-gets-its-swedish-geography-very-wrong Sweden's defence minister was one of the passengers on a plane evacuated over a bomb threat, local media reported, though police said the threat was a hoax. https://www.thelocal.se/20170317/swedish-defence-minister-on-bomb-hoax-plane-report Fri, 17 Mar 2017 08:06:40 +0100 swedish-defence-minister-on-bomb-hoax-plane-report It takes a tough kind of person to stomach Sweden's cold north, and that was proven on Wednesday night, when a train broke down close to the Arctic Circle and lost its heating as temperatures dropped to almost minus 40. https://www.thelocal.se/20170105/swedes-get-stuck-for-hours-on-a-freezing-train-in-minus-40-shrug-it-off Thu, 05 Jan 2017 12:05:07 +0100 swedes-get-stuck-for-hours-on-a-freezing-train-in-minus-40-shrug-it-off Bob Dylan guitarist Charlie Sexton helped write a piece of musical history in northern Sweden at the weekend with the world premiere of new compositions written expressly for ice instruments performed at the Ice Music City of Songs concerts in Luleå. https://www.thelocal.se/20150302/dylan-guitarist-helps-make-music-history-in-lulea-in-northern-sweden-ice-music-tlccu Mon, 02 Mar 2015 17:22:00 +0100 dylan-guitarist-helps-make-music-history-in-lulea-in-northern-sweden-ice-music-tlccu UPDATED: The people of Luleå in northern Sweden are used to white winters, but this Tuesday the snowfall hit new heights - or new depths - breaking a record set almost 50 years ago. https://www.thelocal.se/20150203/record-breaking-113-cm-of-snow-falls-in-lule Tue, 03 Feb 2015 11:40:00 +0100 record-breaking-113-cm-of-snow-falls-in-lule A gym in northern Sweden has turned this week’s monster snowfall into “the perfect workout”, sending its members out for an hour on Saturday to shovel snow around the city for free. https://www.thelocal.se/20150131/gym-shovels-snow-for-free-as-perfect-workout Sat, 31 Jan 2015 22:58:00 +0100 gym-shovels-snow-for-free-as-perfect-workout Two people were found dead at a hotel in northern Sweden, with pills on the scene leading police to believe drugs were involved. https://www.thelocal.se/20140711/drug-overdose-kills-two-swedes Fri, 11 Jul 2014 15:13:00 +0200 drug-overdose-kills-two-swedes The northern Swedish town of Luleå unveiled its annual "ice animal" sculpture earlier this week, a massive hedgehog carved with care by artist Hans Englund, making him our pick for Swede of the Week. https://www.thelocal.se/20140124/the-man-behind-the-biggest-and-coolest-hedgehog-in-sweden Fri, 24 Jan 2014 16:10:00 +0100 the-man-behind-the-biggest-and-coolest-hedgehog-in-sweden When a teammate broke his leg, ice hockey star, literary blogger, and angry social networker Johan Forsberg took to Twitter - to egg on his team. Twitter has also given our Swede of the Week tools to egg just about everyone, from Vladimir Putin to Annie Lööf. https://www.thelocal.se/20140116/feminist-hockey-player-takes-one-for-the-team Thu, 16 Jan 2014 18:27:00 +0100 feminist-hockey-player-takes-one-for-the-team A team in Luleå is in the process of putting together a long-running musical event to be performed on instruments made out of ice in what has been touted as the biggest ice concert in an igloo that Sweden has ever seen. https://www.thelocal.se/20131210/swedens-biggest-igloo-concert-where-even-the-instruments-are-made-of-ice Tue, 10 Dec 2013 15:38:00 +0100 swedens-biggest-igloo-concert-where-even-the-instruments-are-made-of-ice You may not have heard of Luleå, but if you use Facebook, your online presence has been there. However, many still wonder if the social media company's massive server hall near the Arctic Circle will ever heat up the local job market. https://www.thelocal.se/20131119/subarctic-facebook-server-fails-to-spark-economy Tue, 19 Nov 2013 13:46:00 +0100 subarctic-facebook-server-fails-to-spark-economy Facebook officially opened its new mammoth server hall in far northern Sweden on Wednesday, with representatives downplaying concerns stemming from the NSA spying scandal, proclaiming the facility would operate under Swedish law. https://www.thelocal.se/20130612/48460 Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:23:00 +0200 48460 Skellefteå AIK capitalized on its third straight trip to the finals of Sweden's top hockey league, the Elitserien, overpowering northern Sweden rivals Luleå to capture its first championship trophy in 35 years. https://www.thelocal.se/20130419/47430 Fri, 19 Apr 2013 09:07:00 +0200 47430