Koivisto’s school, library and youth facilities will be extensively renovated from August 2028 to May 2030 at an estimated cost of about €19.5 million, with spaces reopening for school use and evening community activities in August 2030.
Construction of a new pedestrian, cycle and ski bridge in Kauppi will begin after the 2026 pesäpallo season; the existing underpass will close from the week starting 21 September 2026 and detours will be signposted.
Local conservation volunteers in Pälkäne have turned a frozen 150 m² shoreline channel on Kukkiajärvi into a trial filtering system after a suspected clear-cut clogged a stream, aiming to stop humus and organic carbon from reaching the Natura 2000 lake.
Tampere will rent portable school blocks in Kaleva for €80,640 a month to house pupils while city-centre schools are renovated.
A City of Tampere study found that most people moving from Tampere to neighbouring municipalities between 2020 and 2026 did so to get larger apartments or plots, Tamperelainen reports.
Twenty-five high school students at the Orivesi campus must unexpectedly move after the site's cooperative said it cannot pay heating bills and district heating will be cut on 5 October.
The City of Tampere says a June 2026 phone survey found most people who recently moved from Tampere to neighbouring municipalities did so to find a more suitable home, especially single-family houses and larger apartments.
Tampere city officials outlined measures to remove food and shelter that attract rats and to tackle sightings near the Härmälä tramline, warning that large infrastructure works can push rodents into new neighbourhoods.
Tampere University Hospital (Tays) is the first hospital in Finland to introduce high‑dose (HDR) brachytherapy for rectal cancer, a treatment that may allow some patients to avoid major surgery and a permanent stoma.
Draft street, walking and cycling plans for the Tasanteen interchange – including a green bridge and a new roundabout – will be presented at a public drop-in on 23 September at Koilliskeskus library.
Pirkanmaan Osuuskauppa will close ABC Oritupa in Orivesi for a comprehensive renovation starting autumn 2026, with a full shutdown for about four weeks in January 2027 and reopening planned for the 2027 ski holiday.
Construction on the new child and adolescent psychiatry building at Tampere University Hospital has reached ridge height, and services are scheduled to begin in early 2028.
The draft 2027 budget sets aside roughly €113.6 million in net investments, with most of the money earmarked for building schools and daycares across Tampere.
Tampere has halted the procurement for the main and architectural design of the Sara Hildén Art Museum in Särkänniemi after a competing firm lodged a formal complaint about the tender documents.
Tampere has received a €100,000 Traficom grant to develop Teiskon airfield into a drone research and product-development testing site.
Päätalo's C wing, home to 16 student organisations, may be closed for three to four years for renovation starting in early 2028, raising concerns about another forced relocation.
A mobile nature game in Nekala attracted 13 locals who logged 85 forest clover observations this summer to help map habitat for a critically endangered moth.
A zoning change on Multiojankatu could nearly double the street’s population to about 460 by replacing 1970s blocks with new multi-storey and terraced housing; the plan now moves toward the city council.
Tampere must find temporary premises for about 100 students of the new sports-focused Hakametsä upper secondary school next autumn after zoning delays pushed the permanent campus opening toward 2030.
A UN International AI and Citiverse Forum and the first ITU‑T Focus Group meeting on AI for Smart Sustainable Cities will take place in Tampere on 10–11 September to push city AI from pilots to citywide scale.