The man shot in an apartment in Södertälje, south of Stockholm, shortly before midnight may have been Quran-burner Salwan ...

More and more foreigners are leaving Sweden for Germany, with higher salaries, more flexible permits and a stronger currency ...

Statistics show that more and more foreigners are leaving Sweden for Germany. Tayyab Shabab, a programmer who was squeezed ...

Stockholm police carry out another controlled explosion of hand grenades, Swedish healthcare watchdog slams dozens of ...

Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson announced at a press conference on Thursday that the government is speeding up the introduction of a law which would allow police to secretly monitor communications of ...

Sweden has seen more than 30 explosions since the beginning of the year with a dramatic increase in the number of incidents ...

The centre-left Social Democrat opposition wants all of southern Stockholm to be turned into a record-large stop-and-search ...

This week's episode of Sweden in Focus Extra for Membership+ subscribers features an interview with Joakim Paasikivi, a ...

Last year The Local launched Membership+, a new subscription plan with features including premium newsletters, extra podcasts ...

Sweden's central bank, the Riksbank, lowered the key interest rate by 0.25 percentage points on Wednesday morning, with ...

Teen held after man shot dead at Lund train station, justice minister calls to high-level meeting after unprecedented spate ...

Two objects described by Swedish media as "grenade-like" were destroyed by police in the Hammarbyhöjden area of southern ...