Public health official say more than 200 people have been put into self-isolation as a precaution after a small cluster of positive coronavirus cases...
Finnish railways operator VR is to end ticket sales at five mainline stations, and potentially making 13 staff unemployed.
Dedicated VR ticket sales offices at...
Finland's national airline Finnair has raised €501 million in a share offering that was so popular, it was oversubscribed by 11%.
The fundraising effort was...
A new survey highlights how Finns are relaxing their own personal coronavirus restrictions as the epidemic subsides, and how they have more confidence in...
The Formula One season got into gear again on Sunday, with the first race of the re-arranged schedule taking place in Austria.
Finnish driver Valtteri Bottas...
Finland's semi-professional floorball league is being rebranded and given a new identity as F-Liiga.
The new brand incorporates 30 clubs with 16 women's teams and...
Finland's grass pitches stand idle. The basketball courts are empty. The ice rinks have melted.
Pro sports is caught in the middle of unprecedented restrictions...
Watching one industrial project after another trying to enter the Sámi homeland in Finland, I’ve started wondering whether companies and authorities understand that the...
Finnish Member of Parliament and a former comedian Pirkka-Pekka Petelius (Green)
apologised this week to the Sámi people for his offensive 'drunken Sámi' TV sketches.
Petelius...
As the party line-up of the new Finnish government and its policy program was formally announced on Monday, the fiscally conservative right, who for...
There are two versions of autonomy within Finland: the region of the Åland Islands between Finland and Sweden is autonomous; and the indigenous people...
Organisers of the annual Blockfest music festival in Tampere have decided to cancel this year's event despite the improved coronavirus situation in Pirkanmaa region,...
After months of lockdown and coronavirus restrictions, Finland's museums are hoping for for a visitor boom in July.
There's already been a rise in the...
Public health official say more than 200 people have been put into self-isolation as a precaution after a small cluster of positive coronavirus cases...
The National Police Board is proposing new maximum response times for officers on call-outs, depending on which part of the country the 112 emergency...
Police in Helsinki say they've made several arrests after a shooting at a Helsinki karaoke bar which left one person injured.
It happened on Snellmaninkatu...
Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto (Green) is facing two police charges over his handling of the al-Hol refugee situation, according to Helsingin Sanomat.
The newspaper reports that...
Finland's economic output fell during May
New figures released Wednesday morning by Statistics Finland show the working day adjusted output of the national economy fell...
Foreign Minister: Hong Kong extradition treaty should not be applied
Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto (Green) says that an extradition treaty between Finland and China "should not...
Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto (Green) says an extradition treaty between Finland and China “should not be applied” any longer because it means that suspects would...
A range of coronavirus-related restrictions are easing in Finland today, as the country moves to a phase of 'new normal' in the pandemic.
Restrictions on...
By Robin Häggblom
Russia built a heliport on Gogland .
Russian news agency TASS provided some details. A Mi-26, the Soviet C-130 sized helicopter, flew in...
By Robin Häggblom
The day started with what sounded like a rare but not unique message on Twitter by the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation:
The current search...
By Simo Raittila
Finnland's basic income experiment will end – as planned.
In recent days there have been some news sites claiming that the Finnish basic...
Laakso Health Centre in Helsinki is trialing a new brethalyser test to see if it gives a reliable coronavirus diagnosis.
The results are available in...
A Porvoo software company is urging the government to take more care with cyber security, and perhaps switch even casual communications between ministers to...
Finland is roasting this week as temperatures peaked on Thursday at 32.7°C in Kronoby in Ostrobothnia - between Jakobstad and Kokkola.
It's officially the hottest...
A storm system moving into southern and central areas of Finland on Wednesday brings with it high winds, rain, sleet and snow.
The Finnish Meteorological...
Organisers of the annual Blockfest music festival in Tampere have decided to cancel this year's event despite the improved coronavirus situation in Pirkanmaa region,...
Public health official say more than 200 people have been put into self-isolation as a precaution after a small cluster of positive coronavirus cases...
Finland's economic output fell during May
New figures released Wednesday morning by Statistics Finland show the working day adjusted output of the national economy fell...
