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3 months ago
Direct flights to the eastern Kainuu region have been arranged for British tourists this year, marketed as trips to Lapland.
4 months ago
If you want to see snow and ice over Christmas, you’ll have to head pretty far north, according to the latest forecast. Christmas Eve is only six days away.
5 months ago
President Alexander Stubb and Climate Minister Sari Multala (NCP) are representing Finland at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP30.
5 months ago
This gallery brings together the most striking weather images sent in by viewers and featured in Yle’s TV news and weather broadcasts during October.
5 months ago
Even Finnish Lapland seems unlikely to get any significant snowfall this month.
5 months ago
Finland granted 3,697 residence permits to Russian citizens in the first half of this year, a historically low number but one which still raises questions, according to Iltalehti.
6 months ago
Hungary set to welcome another suspected war criminal, a violent incident in a VR dining car, and a first taste of wintry weather throughout the country, all in the week’s last press roundup.
6 months ago
The wait for the first snow was unusually long this year, following the third-warmest September on record.
6 months ago
A Finland-based company owned by one of Russia’s richest men received a sizeable grant just weeks before Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, according to a report by Iltalehti.
6 months ago
A spell of ‘grey mush’ is about to sweep across Finland.