The Tax Administration's new guidelines limit lunch vouchers to store-made meals or assembled salads, excluding ready-made salads and fruits, creating hardship for shift workers.
Urjala will leave Tampere's employment area to join Western Pirkanmaa amid a spike in unemployment. The town’s rate stands at 18.2% with 236 jobless in January 2025 and 339 in January 2026.
Tampere seeks its thriftiest saver for an interview to share money-saving tips in tough times, Tamperelainen reports.
Tampere University has opened its spring joint admissions, including a new Robotics MSc program and more than 3,600 Finnish-language study places across 163 options.
Tampere's logopedics program has left the shared entrance exam and will offer a free course that doubles as entrance exam preparation, starting this spring.
Parkano leads Pirkanmaa in per-capita clothing donations to UFF in 2025, while Tampere accounts for the largest share of the region's total donations.
A single Veikkaus Milli draw hit on Monday won €1 million, shared by online players from Raasepori, Kangasala and Lahti.
<p>Nearly 500 exam sensors are evaluating the responses of more than 50,000 candidates as Finland's spring matriculation exams begin, YLE writes. The exams start nationwide with a record 50,400 candidates, about 2,100 more than spring 2025, and 5,097 in Pirkanmaa (up from 4,769). The Matriculation Examination Board says the major disruption from last autumn has been addressed, and guidelines have been clarified; it can activate an incident page to share status updates and instructions with schools if needed. The spring 2026 exam will be the last to use the Abitti 1 testing system, as Abitti 2 will be introduced in autumn 2026. The sensors' identities are kept strictly secret, and YLE notes that a 2024 list includes almost 500 names, with 2025 data not yet public. Four sensors spoke to the story, illustrating a wide range of backgrounds from university lecturers and professors to a sales and marketing manager who has spent 15 years teaching French in high school.</p>
A 40-year-old Tampere man says he wants to become a father but cannot find a suitable partner, underscoring the challenges men face in starting a family.
Pirkanmaa Regional Council is advertising for a new regional director after Anna‑Mari Ahonen moves to become secretary‑general at the Ministry of Transport and Communications; a successor is to be elected by June 1.
Pirkanmaa's OmaPirha digital invoicing channel replaces email for customer inquiries, with strong authentication and a target response time of two business days.
This week’s records of baptisms, banns and deaths from Tampere’s Lutheran parishes have been published, listing dozens of entries including ages for many individuals.
A Vesilahti dairy farm owned by Harri Penttilä has been ordered to purge bird droppings and restrict milk deliveries for pasteurized products, with a March 17 deadline. The milk-delivery ban remains in place as inspections in October, January and February flagged ongoing issues amid rising avian influenza risk.
Tampere University plans to slash its language offerings from 13 languages to seven next autumn amid budget constraints, dropping Japanese and Korean from the elective program and moving several languages to other faculties.
A 2025 Tampere region school travel survey shows walking and cycling to school decline with age, based on 21,517 responses across elementary to secondary levels.
Tampere homeowners pay below the national average for municipal and regional charges this year, at an average of 5,734 euros.
Pirkanmaa's wellbeing authority has fired an oncology specialist over a serious data privacy breach. The doctor allegedly printed patient documents and stored the prints negligently.
"Residents in communal housing mostly sleep through the night" YLE reports Three Tampere-area care homes — Koivupirtin, Hyvänolon Elämänpuun, and Viola-kodin — tell YLE that communal housing i
YLE reports that perch and pike from Pirkkala’s lakes along the Sikojoki Route exceed the 0.50 mg/kg mercury limit for food use, triggering restrictions on fishing and selling these fish from the area.
A new Tampere profile events grant will support the city's strategic goals and boost its appeal, with funding capped at 20% of costs and up to 30,000 euros, Tamperelainen writes. The change was approved by the city council at its Monday meeting.