Winter in Finland was once marked by lasting snow, frozen lakes, and bright white days that eased the long darkness, but that familiar pattern is rapidly changing, especially in the south. Winters are ...

The whole country feels designed with children in mind, from Helsinki’s playful public spaces to the wide-open north.

HELSINKI — Finland and Sweden recorded the coldest temperatures of the winter Tuesday as thermometers plummeted to minus 40 degrees Celsius (minus 40 Fahrenheit) as a result of a cold spell prevailing ...

(Bloomberg) -- In the dead of winter, Finland can be a miserable place. Temperatures often dip below -20C, and in the darkest months of the year, Helsinki gets less than six hours of light a day. To ...

It’s time to visit the happiest country in the world — Finland! Finland has emerged victorious five times in a row (since 2018) in the World Happiness Report, which measures national happiness based ...

On a late autumn day, I watched a four-year-old Finnish girl walk toward a hole in the solid ice surface of a freezing lake. The sky was gray, twilight was already approaching at 3:45 pm, and the ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — An architect-designer in southern Finland has returned to a frozen lake with a snow shovel to draw a large animal on the ice for the sixth year in a row, creating an artwork that ...

It sounds like a Berkshire fantasy: Cross-country skiers successfully defend their land against waves of tanks from the Evil Empire. This winter, as Moscow again revs its tank engines on a western ...

As the China-Finland Winter Sports Year is closing to an end, the sports sectors of the two countries have witnessed close cooperation in 2019 in many fields, including the preparations for the 2022 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Michelle Gross is a seasoned travel journalist based in Beaufort, SC. Finland natives and co-founders of The Long Drink, Sakari ...