In addition to a surge in tourism in Arctic areas of Finnish Lapland, the more southerly cities of Kemi and Tornio also saw ...

But it also signifies spirit or life force — a double meaning that reflects the integrality of saunas to the Finnish way of ...

The summer of 2024 was the warmest in 2,000 years in the Lapland region of northern Finland, Norway and Sweden, driven by ...

Temperature reconstructions from tree-ring records indicate that last summer was the warmest in northern Fennoscandia over the Common Era. The summer ...

Finland plans to build a standard-gauge railway from Kemi to Sweden’s Haparanda to improve military mobility and trade links ...

Finland is under pressure to switch its rail to the standard European gauge. In the first phase, a planned train line is to ...

Planning for a rail connection from Kemi to the port of Narvik in northern Norway will ... for a rail link between the ...

These numbers are part of Finnish Lapland's tourism growth. Along with other airports, including Rovaniemi, Kittilä, Kuusamo, and Kemi-Tornio, a huge 1.8 million passengers arrived in 2024.

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Finland's customs authority announced it was investigating an attempt by Russia to breach EU sanctions after intercepting sensitive documents. Nearly 30 boxes of sensitive documents related to ...

Finnish Lapland, in general, is becoming increasingly popular year on year. Across the Finavia-managed airports of Rovaniemi, Kittilä, Ivalo, Kuusamo, and Kemi-Tornio, 1.8 million passengers ...

Where most airports would close for a few centimetres of snow, some battle-hardened Arctic Circle airports refuse to close for anything.View on euronews ...