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The city of Espoo staged Finland’s first firework-free New Year’s Eve celebration on Monday night, ditching pyrotechnics for a lavish laser show instead. The move came on sustainability grounds, and to try something different as the city reintroduced an official…

Many people across the country will be watching firework displays as 2018 turns into 2019. Unsurprisingly it’s one of the busiest nights of the year for Finnish firefighters as they get called out to medical alerts, as well as fires. "Most…

Lapland resident Santa Claus is about to set off on his annual journey around the world to deliver presents to children (but only the ones who have been nice, not naughty!) He departs from his hometown of Rovaniemi after a…

Finland’s first ever vegan burger chain launched today in Helsinki with three locations. Bun2Bun has been open since spring this year cooking traditional meat patties, but now they flipped the menu, to only serve a range of vegan burgers instead. "Why…

It’s Slush week in Helsinki, as tens of thousands of entrepreneurs, startup dreamers, rich investors, party people and volunteers descend on the Finnish capital for the annual event. Over the last decade Slush has evolved from a small, intimate affair…

The deadline for drivers to change their car tyres from summer to winter is Saturday 1st December. That’s a big change from just a decade ago, when the deadline was a month earlier on 1st November, and more changes are…

When a Futuro House was put on display in the middle of Helsinki’s Stockmann department store in 1969 for a month, more than 50,000 people came to see it. In the late 1960s the world was looking to the stars,…

It’s that time of year when Finland’s native brown bears are getting ready for winter. With months of hibernation ahead in their dens during the coldest and darkest part of the year, they need to fatten up before their metabolism…

Ten years ago Jerry Jalava became ‘internet famous’ after a blog post he wrote went viral, and lead to international media fame. The computer engineer had lost part of a finger on his left hand in a motorbike accident, and decided to…