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Communities across Lapland are bracing for spring floods which could reach their highest peak for 50 years, with up to 5-meter surges that threaten to breach river banks and flood defences in a number of towns including Rovaniemi, Kemijärvi,...

Finland's restaurants, cafes and bars are supposed to open again for business from next Monday 1st June, but there's so much confusion and delay around implementing new laws and providing clarity on funding that it might not be a...

Overture. Opera singer Karita Mattila is as energetic on the telephone as you would imagine from scrolling through her up-beat Twitter feed. "Oh no! I've called you from WhatsApp and now you know my phone number!" she exclaims, having informed me...

The annual migration of barnacle geese is underway as an estimated 130,000 leave their winter feeding grounds in the Netherlands and fly over southern and eastern Finland to their summer breeding grounds in Russia's Arctic archipelago. Unlike Sweden and Estonia,...

Communities in Finland affected by Finnair's decision to axe summer flights are imploring the airline - and the government - to think again. Their reactions come the same day that Ryanair accuses a number of European airlines, including Finnair,...

Netflix is shining a global spotlight on Turku's food and design scene, as the new season of a restaurant makeover show lands on the streaming platform. 'Restaurants on the Edge' brings together a chef, a restaurateur and an interior designer...

Thousands of students in primary and lower secondary school go back to class on Thursday, after almost two months of enforced distance learning during the coronavirus crisis. Pupils and teachers are returning with just two weeks to go until the...

Older people in Finland, faced with continued restrictions on social contact, need more instructions on how to safeguard their physical and mental health in the coming months. That's the message from former minister and diplomat Ole Norrback, Chairman of the Swedish...

As Finland looks ahead to a period of economic rebuilding and societal recovery after the worst months of the coronavirus crisis, ministers have repeatedly emphasised the importance of 'green spending' - making investments in the future that are economically...

Europe Day is usually a time when politicians and political parties get out in the streets and meet their potential voters, literally and figuratively flying the EU flag. The date marks the 1950 signing of the Schumann Declaration, which is...