Skaraborgs, Sweden News

October 8, 2008: To meet the rapidly deteriorating market situation in the global car industry, the management team at Volvo Car Corporation has decided to initiate further structural changes in all parts of ...

Swedish car maker Volvo Car Corporation , part of Ford Motor Company , announced on Wednesday that it will reduce its personnel in Sweden by a further 2,700 as part of its cost reduction measures.

Swedish archaeologists have been captivated by a Bronze Age knife which was uncovered along with other artifacts from an excavation site near Falbygden in central Sweden.

The Swedish Road Administration on Monday revealed the final design for its new, more gender-sensitive pedestrian crossing signs.

Swedish archaeologists have been captivated by a Bronze Age knife which was uncovered along with other artifacts from an excavation site near Falbygden in central Sweden.

Rail officials in Sweden say a test crew traveling 188 miles per hour set a speed record for a train on a Swedish railway.

The speed record for a train on a Swedish railway was broken on Saturday night. For the first time speeds in excess of 300 kilometres per hour were recorded in a test drive of a Regina train near Skovde.

In about a month, Nash County will be home to the state's only two-story burn lab to train law enforcement and first responders.

A group of Swedish soldiers made an unexpected discovery when they came across a group of suspicious looking plants during a training exercise in Skovde in western Sweden.

Forget firearms or terrorist plots. In Sweden, prison administrators have sounded the alarm about the security threat posed by a can of foul-smelling fermented herring.

Officials at a prison in central Sweden say a prisoner wasn't allowed to have access to a can of fermented herring because it posed a security risk.

A 20-year-old man found with serious stab wounds to his stomach outside his apartment in Hjo , south-west Sweden, apparently received his injuries during a game involving potato peelers.

Two separate stabbing incidents near Skovde in central Sweden left one man dead and the other with stomach injuries on Saturday evening.

A 25-year-old man suspected of having killed a woman in Hjo last week was remanded to custody on Monday, despite denying the accusations.

Swedish officials said they found a 3-year-old girl in a home with her dead mother, who could have been killed two days before police showed up.

Police now believe the 22-year-old woman found dead in Hjo in western Sweden on Friday afternoon may have been killed on Wednesday, which means her three-year-old daughter was home alone with her murdered mum ...

A 25-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of a 22-year-old woman found dead in an apartment in Hjo in western Sweden on Friday afternoon.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of the attempted murder of a traffic police officer near Mariestad in central Sweden on Sunday afternoon.

The National Service Administration has dismissed a conscript suspected of raping his female colleague at a military base in Skovde in western Sweden.

Friday, June 06, 2008 Serna: Sun.Star's Pubs: Star Awards, Golden Screen Awards nom By Roger Serna Sounds and images THE back-to-back concert of two foreign acts next week has some changes.