Finnish women drink six times more today than they did in 1970. According to the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), alcohol consumption by Finns has tripled over the past 40 years. The average Finnish woman consumes 6.5 litres of pure...

Minister of Justice Tuija Brax wants to lower the voting age for local elections to 16 before the next round of municipal balloting. Brax says that making the legislative change within two years is possible if there is sufficient political will. On...

Foreigners are reluctant to find fault in work conditions because residence permits require an employment contract. An ethnic divide between native and immigrant fields of employment is threatening to form in Finland, according to a study by the...

In an effort to increase efficiency, cut carbon emissions, and reduce costs, Finland has begun a pilot program wherein snail-mail letters are converted into PDFs and made viewable online by their addressees, in advance or in lieu of physical delivery....

Police say a young girl, under the age of 15, is the prime suspect in Monday’s kidnapping of a three-month old baby in the town of Varkaus, eastern Finland.

Finland’s buses and heavy trucks sat idle today after drivers walked off the job, leaving commuters stranded and making it difficult for companies to transport goods from groceries to gas. About 10,000 drivers began an unlimited strike last night...

Piiroinen, known to fans of the sport as “P2″, nabbed the silver medal in the halfpipe, just behind the sport’s biggest star, Shaun White of the US. But while White has his very own halfpipe to practice on, Piiroinen says there is not a...

Team Finland did something late Saturday night it couldn’t manage the day before, when it lost 6-1 to the U.S. in a semfinal. It showed up and fought back. Spurred by the fact the Vancouver Olympics will be the

Nordea, the largest bank in the Nordic Countries, is paying out a record EUR 278 million in bonuses, primarily for those working in investments. The incentives mainly involve employees working in capital markets and investment banking operations,...

A cautious step was taken by participants of the Bishops’ Conference of the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church on Wednesday in the direction of greater acceptance of same sex couples. At the end of their conference on Wednesday,...