Sensitive school records, including psychological assessments, were found scattered in a former Ruovesi restaurant earlier this year, with some papers left on the bar counter while municipal staff and outsiders accessed the premises.
Responders checked a person-in-water report at Kehonranta on Lake Pyhäjärvi in Nokia at 19:40 Tuesday and found the boater safe, so no rescue services were needed.
A woodchip truck’s engine compartment caught fire on the Pyhäjärventie ramp toward Hervanta Tuesday evening; firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze and the driver was able to continue his journey.
A file containing 10,263 Finnish personal identity numbers tied to Kolmostien Terveys customers was breached on July 24, exposing phone numbers for roughly 12,000 people connected to social and health services in Parkano and Kihniö.
On Tuesday morning a person was trapped beneath a slowly moving car in a parking lot in Sahalahti, Kangasala; rescue crews freed them and they were taken for medical checks while police investigate.
A malfunctioning sauna stove began smoking while being heated in Metsäkylä on Monday evening, triggering a building fire alarm and a response by the Pirkanmaa Rescue Department.
An elderly woman went missing near Tampere University Hospital on 24 August after being last seen at a nearby tram stop.
Two 16-year-old boys were convicted in Pirkanmaa District Court after a vacant house in Ikaalinen was set on fire last October; one received a one-year conditional sentence and was ordered to pay nearly €160,000.
Police and rescue crews reached a young person on the roof of Lempäälä‑talo on Monday morning and brought them down for emergency medical checks.
A working paper by Nuorisotutkimusseura finds 15–17-year-old street violence in Oulu, Tampere and Vantaa (2019–early 2024) was mostly group-based and opportunistic, not the work of organised gangs.
Police say investigations into assaults on Hämeenkatu during May Day demonstrations are continuing, while a separate Tuomiokirkonkatu inquiry has been suspended pending identification of suspects.
Prosecutors have opened a preliminary investigation into an August 12 video in Villilä that appears to show a police officer pointing a firearm at a civilian.
A Tampere court sentenced 24-year-old Anni Eliisa Piesk to five years in prison for deliberately setting a fire in a first-floor studio on Kullervonkatu in Tammela last September, a blaze that forced 43 residents to evacuate.
Police have recorded 964 vandalism crimes in Tampere so far this year as residents report dog faeces in mailboxes, urine in stairwells and repeated attacks on vehicles, leaving neighbourhoods frustrated and property owners facing repair bills.
Police now consider a man seen following women in Hervanta woods a prime suspect in the 2011 killing of 42-year-old Yuqing Yin.
Lightning struck the Tampere Orthodox Church during Saturday celebrations, starting a fire in the building’s highest tower; the blaze remained confined to the tower and no injuries have been reported.
Two elderly women were removed from IC26 at Tampere after refusing to move from the Extra Rento carriage and confronting train staff.
Police warn online ticket scams remain common this summer, with buyers receiving used or invalid festival tickets and losses ranging from €5 to several hundred.
Police warn that civilians staging online stings by posing as minors can destroy evidence and hinder investigations, and urge anyone who finds suspicious material to preserve it and hand it to the police.
A year after the Ratina mass stabbing, victims and the city still struggle with anxiety and uncertainty, and one victim says she continues to recover physically and psychologically.