Canton Valais is releasing CHF10 million ($12.1 million) in emergency funds for the mountain village of Blatten, which was wiped out by a devastating glacier collapse last week.

Please stop sending clothes, but give us money. That’s the message from the authorities in the devasted village of Blatten.

On August 23, 2017 three million cubic metres of rock crashed down from the Piz Cengalo mountain in eastern Switzerland, triggering a landslide into the valley. It was the largest landslide in ...

The collapse of a Swiss glacier last week destroyed most of Blatten, a tiny village in Switzerland's southern Valais region ...

Married couples in Switzerland will get tax relief at last; the canton of Aargau seeks to introduce tougher checks at German ...