Tampere plans to transfer the financially troubled Hopealinjat ferries into municipal ownership under Tampereen Kaupunkiliikenne and will reject two external bid packages, a proposal the city’s corporate committee will consider next Thursday.
Tampere City Council will meet at 5 p.m. on 19 October to decide whether to sell the central fire station and to consider amendments to this year’s city budget.
Tampere city board will decide Monday whether to award Venla Harju €3,000 for her European Orienteering Championships bronze and Pihla Kaivo‑oja €4,000 for her European Boxing Championships silver.
Pirkanmaa's Left Alliance has added three candidates – Aki Leppänen, Minna Minkkinen and Elo Vanhanen – bringing its parliamentary election list to 19.
Ylöjärvi city board proposes nearly €1.8 million in savings for 2027, affecting basic education and ending Kuru weekend childcare and Sunday library openings.
Parkano will reserve €75,000 in its 2027 budget to support construction of a padel hall next to the town sports complex despite strained municipal finances.
Orivesi city manager Juha Kuusisto has resigned and will retire at the start of 2028; the city is launching an accelerated recruitment process aiming to have a successor in place by next summer.
Six major Finnish cities, led by Helsinki and Tampere, want national rules to tighten homeschooling and make school attendance mandatory except in exceptional cases.
Tampere mayor Ilmari Nurminen will unveil the city's 2027 budget proposal at a public presentation on 19 October.
Oma Pirha now shows users their assigned social and healthcare centre and their named nurse and doctor on the front page; parents of children under seven also see the child health clinic nurse, and non-urgent messages can be sent via the service.
Tampere will roll out the Mielenpolku mental-wellbeing model across its upper secondary schools to make mental-health work more visible and systematic in teaching, leadership and student communities.
Tampere now expects a €54.4 million budget deficit for the year after a summer financial review, driven mainly by weaker tax revenues and rising unemployment-related costs.
A coalition of 13 Finnish cities says planned negative social and health-care transfer adjustments would cut municipal funding, threaten equal access to services and must prompt urgent reform of the state subsidy system.
A Tampere woman with limited mobility says a new ban on smoking on apartment balconies has forced her to smoke in her car, and she has no intention of quitting.
Yle reports Pirkanmaa has opened bookings for seasonal influenza and COVID-19 vaccines, with appointments first reserved for residents aged 75+ and people with severe immune deficiencies.
The number of under-30 candidates in Tampere's parish elections has doubled to 28 as young people run in greater numbers nationwide ahead of November's church elections.
Lempäälä has opened municipality-wide negotiations to cut staff costs by €1.625 million by 2029, a target equivalent to roughly 30 full-time positions.
The city recorded 468 single-person homeless people last year, up from 391 the year before, and homelessness is increasingly affecting people who work, local charity workers say.
Orivesi opened cooperation negotiations on 12 October to decide whether its finance staff will transfer to Pirkkala or whether finance services will be outsourced from early 2028.
A YLE MOT investigation found frequent lapses in oversight of home schooling in Finland, including missed monitoring meetings, big variation in teaching quality and cases where children were kept isolated from peers.