Puhtausala ry has named 18 finalists across six categories for the Puhtausalan Tähdet 2026 awards; winners will be announced at a gala at Finlandia Hall in Helsinki on 29 October 2026.
About 200 delegates from eight countries attended the Nordic Battery Summit in Tampere on 19–20 May, the largest turnout since the event began rotating across the Nordic countries.
Tredu will lease its Diamond DA42 to Suomen Ilmailuopisto for inspection and training flights from 9 June 2026 to 28 February 2027 to support hands-on maintenance training for students.
French vintner Simon Bouquin will open Wine Spot, a French-style wine bar on Kuninkaankatu opposite K-Supermarket Kuninkaankulma in June, offering 100+ French wines and takeaway cheeses, charcuterie and sandwiches.
Nearly €3 million earmarked to subsidise youth hires in Tampere has backed just 34 recruitments, leaving funds to support hundreds more despite more than 8,000 under‑30s being unemployed in the city.
Kangasala's annual holiday-cottage bills average about €1,300, pushed up by Finland's highest second‑home property tax of €679, Tamperelainen reports.
The Partola Lidl in Pirkkala reopens on Thursday 4 June after a full renovation that reorganised produce, meat, frozen goods and sweets and added more shelf space for dry goods.
Burgers & Wine opens a new restaurant at Ratinan Kulma in Ratina after relocating from Finlayson's Siperia; a summer menu including a 24K gold‑topped lobster burger will arrive within weeks.
Imatra will run a crowdsourced invasive-plant removal campaign with the Crowdsorsa app from June and has doubled the local reward pot to €3,500 to encourage volunteers to remove lupin and other invasive species.
Kangasala's direct tourism revenue rose 1.8% to €16.9 million in 2025, supporting 88 person‑years of employment, Visitory Oy's study finds.
HUS carried out 173 drug tests for healthcare staff last year, up from 35 the year before, while most Finnish welfare regions still perform only a handful of screenings.
Tamperelainen reports that Tampere has topped a spring downtown vitality ranking that measures shops, services and vacant retail space relative to population, with Helsinki second and Espoo third.
Rymy-Eetu owner Tarja Palomäki says young Tampereans still drink in restaurants but have less money to spend, and nightlife is harder to attract because of high alcohol taxes, smartphones and streaming services.
The government loosened rules on housing company loans in recent budget talks, a move that could raise shared housing-company debts and push monthly condominium charges for some Tampere studio buyers above €1,300.
Temporary staffing firms say Finland’s employment slump has bottomed out and hiring is recovering this spring, with sector revenue and company data pointing to improvement in March–April 2026.
Kuopio-based Cme Solutions and Pirkkala-founded Skyfuel Solutions have won a €4 million contract to renew Air Force fuel systems at the Rissala (Siilinjärvi) and Oulunsalo air bases.
The Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation awarded €11.5 million to eight Finnish research, technology and cultural projects, bringing its lifetime support to more than €500 million.
Nine teenagers from Nokia will build playhouses at Nokian Kartanonranta in a two-week June project after more than 60 local youths applied.
Nine local teenagers were selected for a two-week playhouse-building and entrepreneurship project at Nokian Kartanonranta after more than 60 applied.
Fimlab will cut about 30 person‑years at its Tampere operations after a stronger‑than‑expected drop in demand for laboratory services, the company said following change negotiations.