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 Sweden's meteorological institute has issued weather warnings for parts of northern Sweden, where a large storm swept in on Thursday night, causing school closures, power outages and transport disruptions. https://www.thelocal.se/20190111/storm-jan-transport-disrupted-across-northern-sweden Fri, 11 Jan 2019 11:00:39 +0100 storm-jan-transport-disrupted-across-northern-sweden Residents of a village in northern Sweden were surprised to find a sizeable cannabis crop growing in the yard of a property owned by local police, with officers less than keen to take measures to completely eradicate the pot. https://www.thelocal.se/20130812/49608 Mon, 12 Aug 2013 20:13:00 +0200 49608 Some 500 nursing students in Umeå, in northern Sweden, are taking a stand and demanding higher entry wages. They're encouraging all nurses to turn down any job with a monthly salary of less than 24,000 kronor ($3,500), according to reports in local media. https://www.thelocal.se/20120311/39610 Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:10:00 +0100 39610 Recent figures show that it will take more than three decades until parents in Sweden share their parental leave benefits equally. https://www.thelocal.se/20110415/33220 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:00:00 +0200 33220 An internet technician’s holiday travels have left a remote mountain village in northern Sweden cut off from the internet, causing a dent in the town’s winter tourism bookings. https://www.thelocal.se/20091229/24100 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:36:00 +0100 24100 Six thousand grenades in boxes rest at the bottom of Pengsjön lake outside of Vännäs in northern Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20090627/20322 Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:09:00 +0200 20322 A man in northern Sweden got stuck attempting to rescue his cat from a tree, eventually needing the fire department to bring both him and his cat down safely. https://www.thelocal.se/20081211/16276 Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:16:00 +0100 16276 Large quantities of arsenic have leaked out into a fresh water repository near a gold mine operated by Dragon Mining in Västerbotten in northern Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20081022/15130 Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:33:00 +0200 15130 Hungry students at a school in Västerbotten in northern Sweden must give a fingerprint in order to eat in the school’s cafeteria, a practice which bothers data privacy officials seeking to ban the measure. https://www.thelocal.se/20081020/15068 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:50:00 +0200 15068 An earthquake rumbled through northern Sweden on Thursday night, according to local media reports. https://www.thelocal.se/20081017/15018 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:06:00 +0200 15018 Unless moved to coastal areas within the next week, 50,000 reindeer risk starving to death. https://www.thelocal.se/20061212/5771 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:39:00 +0100 5771