Sweden's largest banks have lowered their variable mortgage rates by between 0.10 and 0.15 percentage points over the last ...

Sweden imposed a law on Friday allowing police to seize luxury items from people even if they are not suspected of a crime, ...

Every week, The Local invites readers to submit their pictures to our photo competition, to bring our audience together from ...

Apartment prices rose in the Stockholm region last month by almost 4 percent, while the price of detached houses lagged ...

Swedish offices are emptier than usual over Christmas and New Year, and the Migration Agency is no exception. The agency will ...

When the world feels like a scary place, it's easy to feel isolated from the political process, especially as a foreigner ...

In this week's episode of Sweden in Focus Extra for Membership+ subscribers: what do The Local's readers (and our panelists) think of Sweden's plans to map the values of immigrants.

A weakened economy, interest cut delays, continued struggles for the Swedish krona and potential security issues are the ...

Ränta is the Swedish word for interest, in the sense of money paid by a borrower to a lender. It comes originally from Middle ...

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson warned that Donald Trump's reelection as US president could put Washington's ...

Hanna Geurtsen, the deputy head of the Migration Agency's new work permit 'special focus area', tells The Local about how the ...

Sweden's central bank, the Riksbank, has announced that it is cutting the country's key interest rate by an aggressive 0.5 ...