Tens of thousands of households are without power across Finland following a severe storm on Wednesday. It could take days for companies to restore power. This is the second major storm to hit Finland in less than a week. In the Kainuu region, over...

The family of Eveline Fadayel, who faces deportation by June 13, has taken their grandmother into hiding from the authorities. Relatives have not released any further details. Popular feeling for both the Egyptian and Russian grandmothers appears to be...

The Finnish Interior Ministry has devised a draft amendment to legislation to allow foreign parents of Finnish citizens to apply for residence permit. The authorities produced the draft under public pressure in connection with the case of Irina...

A major blaze engulfed the Kekkilä peat processing plant in Eurajoki Tuesday morning. Firefighters were battling the flames to prevent them from spreading to nearby buildings, including a fertilizer plant. No one was reported injured in the fire, but...

Rapists in Finland are far too often handed light sentences, according to criminal law professor Terttu Utriainen of the University of Lapland. Utriainen says rapists are often only given a conditional jail sentence. “In Finland, attempted murder...

University staff were to take their first strike action since 1986 but the stop-work scheduled for last Thursday was called off. It had been planned because universities were looking to reduce staff conditions relating to sick and annual leave. The...

Over half of Finland’s paper production capacity is at a standstill because of the stevedore strike that has closed the nation’s ports. 59% of capacity has been shut down and according to the Finnish Forest Industries Federation, over 3700...

Police have found a three-month old baby boy who was snatched from his stroller on Monday in the town of Varkaus, in eastern Finland. Officers heard the baby crying and found him covered in snow three hours after his abduction.