Culture
The Bürkliplatz flea market returns, the 1st of May brings its usual mix of politics and partying, and there's a lakeside rave, a literature festival, and Mozart at the Opernhaus. Busy one. 1st of May Demo The traditional march kicks off at 10:00 from Helvetiaplatz (now also
Transport
If you commute into Zürich on the S4 or S10, your mornings just got longer. As of Wednesday, the SZU underground station at Zürich Hauptbahnhof is shut, completely, until 18 October. That's nearly six months, and there are no replacement buses. Around 40,000 passengers pass through the
Transport
The driver of a Flixbus involved in a fatal crash on Zürich's Sihlhochstrasse in December 2018 has been definitively convicted. The Obergericht sentenced him to a 20-month suspended sentence for multiple counts of negligent homicide — slightly less than the 24 months handed down by the Bezirksgericht Zürich in
Culture
In summer 2027, Zürich's City Vereinigung will fill the city's streets, shop windows, and public squares with hand-crafted wooden sculptures of native wildlife. The ten-week installation features species that actually inhabit urban Zürich — foxes, badgers, owls, squirrels, and fire salamanders — most of which go unseen day-to-day
Crime
A 34-year-old Swiss man appeared before a Zürich court on Thursday, charged with attempting to set fire to the Agudas Achim synagogue in August 2024. According to the indictment, the accused soaked advertising leaflets in petrol and placed them against the synagogue's entrance, then tried to ignite them
Transport
A study by ETH Zürich, published in the journal Nature Communications, has looked at what actually causes traffic congestion in cities — and found that road infrastructure is only part of the answer. The spatial organisation of a city plays an equally important role. Researchers examined data on traffic flows, street
Transport
Zürich's Altstetten West is set to lose around 240 parking spaces as the city pushes ahead with its voter-approved cycling network expansion — and the local business community is not taking it quietly. Of 388 spaces in the area, the city plans to remove 224 blue-zone and 16 white-zone
Politics
A technical failure at the Zurich cantonal tax administration has left an unknown number of municipalities unable to access supporting documents tied to roughly 18,000 filed tax returns, the Canton's Finance Directorate confirmed on Wednesday. The authority described the incident as an "internal disruption" — offering
Business
A quiet but significant transformation is underway along the Bellerivestrasse in Zürich's Seefeld district. Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) is developing Vuelo, a new commercial and services building on the grounds adjacent to Tiefenbrunnen station — one of the more substantial construction projects the neighbourhood has seen in years. For
Education
A single resident is holding up a CHF 140 million school renovation in Wiedikon — and it's now costing the city nearly half a million francs just to restore a meadow. The Schulhaus Aemtler renovation in Kreis 3 has been stuck since last year, when a neighbour's
Environment
1934-era drinking water pipe running 820 metres from Hardturmstrasse to the Hardhof groundwater plant is being replaced. Beneath the Fischerweg in Kreis 5, one of the city's main drinking water pipes has been doing its job since 1934. That's about to change. The City of Zürich
Politics
The city has put its revised Bau- und Zonenordnung (BZO) out for public consultation. The changes on the table will shape how Zürich looks and functions for decades to come — and residents have until 1 June to respond. The BZO is the legal framework governing what can be built, where,