Police have opened a murder investigation after the body of a 19-year-old woman who went missing two months ago was found last week next to Lake Neuchâtel.
One in four deaths worldwide are due to environmental factors like air, water and soil pollution, as well as unsafe roads and workplace stress, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.
People in French and Italian-speaking Switzerland are more likely to die from alcohol-related liver diseases than their countrymen in German-speaking cantons, according to a new study.
Police have arrested a German woman and a Swiss man after the body of their daughter was found in their home in Staad, in the canton of Saint Gallen, on Tuesday afternoon.
Swiss roads are safer than at any point since 1945, but motorcyclists are at greater risk of an accident than car drivers, according to new statistics.
A 56-year-old man who used to teach at a vocational training school in the canton of Lucerne is suspected of committing suicide by setting fire to himself in the school early on Monday, police said.
A 56-year-old woman died after being thrown from a horse during a training exercise at a riding school in the canton of Vaud, police said on Wednesday.
The 36-year-old-Swiss man who killed three in-laws and a neighbour near Zurich earlier this month was on a list of around 2,000 people in Switzerland considered by police to be potentially violent, a newspaper report on Sunday said.
The Swiss man who shot dead three in-laws and a neighbour before turning the gun on himself near Zurich on Sunday was known to police, reports revealed on Monday.
A 49-year-old Irishman has confessed to savagely stabbing his wife to death in the vineyard village of Lutry in the canton of Vaud earlier this week, police said on Thursday.
A worker who visited an apartment in the vineyard village of Lutry to do some work got a shock when he discovered a dead 46-year-old woman soaked in blood, Vaud cantonal police said on Tuesday.
The daughter and grandson of a man in his 80s, who died in front of his home at the east end of Lake Geneva last November, have admitted to killing him, Vaud cantonal police said on Thursday.
A 26-year-old woman died after being stabbed during an argument with a man in the streets of Fislisbach near Baden in the canton of Aargau, police reported on Friday.
A 59-year-old Swiss woman died following a 200-metre fall while hiking on the Grand Muveran mountain in the Bernese Alps, Valais cantonal police said on Sunday.
A 64-year-old German woman suspected of murdering her 78-year-old partner in July committed suicide while in custody in Martigny prison in the canton of Valais, officials said on Monday.
A 29-year-old Swiss woman holidaying in northern Italy died from an apparent fall while mountain hiking in the Alto Adige region, Italian rescue officials said on Sunday.
