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.
Hunajaiset tarinat — a Romantic Literature Day — will be held on Friday 22 August as a side event to the Hunajahulinat festival in Akaa, bringing authors, readers and publishing professionals together.
Akaa will host Honeyed Stories, a day of romantic fiction events including author visits, panels and book sales, on Friday 22 August as part of the town’s summer honey celebrations.
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.
Tampere Workers' Theatre (TT) will open a new 60-seat lounge stage at the former Kulttuuriravintola Kivi on 5 November with Arttu Ratinen's song evening Ikuinen uni.
YLE reports Tampere is considering a full ban on rented e‑scooter riding during weekend nights after data show serious head and facial injuries among intoxicated young adults are concentrated then.
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 local teenagers were selected for a two-week playhouse-building and entrepreneurship project at Nokian Kartanonranta after more than 60 applied.
Nine teenagers from Nokia will build playhouses at Nokian Kartanonranta in a two-week June project after more than 60 local youths applied.
Deputy Mayor Ilkka Porttikivi and city councillors will join volunteer events this summer to remove invasive lupins from several Tampere parks, including a Niemenranta session on June 2 (17–19).
Tampere will convert signal-controlled tramway crossings (except Hämeenkatu) into formal pedestrian crossings, add small tram-warning signs and paint tram-lane markings this summer.
Tampere will convert many traffic-light-controlled tram crossings into marked pedestrian crossings this summer, with Hämeenkatu explicitly excluded from the current programme.
Fintraffic will close its Turku road traffic control centre at the end of the summer, moving monitoring duties to Helsinki and Tampere.
About 2,400 people were redirected from their primary domestic violence shelter to another in Finland in 2025, up from roughly 1,300 in 2024, THL data show.
Tampere continues to pump drinking water from the Pinsiö groundwater area near the Pinsiön–Matalusjoki river, and conservationists warn the extraction is harming critically endangered freshwater pearl mussels.
A free, daylong multicultural festival will fill Laikunlava and Library Park with music, street food and dance at the start of summer in Tampere.
Tampereen Työväen Teatteri closed its 2025–26 season with 170,719 visitors — about a 25% increase from the previous year — and the musical Beauty and the Beast drew roughly 80,000 viewers across 98 performances.
Tampere will redraw its voting district boundaries in early 2027, splitting fast-growing areas like Vuores and reshaping Lielahti while keeping most polling places the same.
A municipal committee has paused plans to lower the speed limit on Hervannan valtaväylä from 70 km/h to 50 km/h and sent the proposal back for further study.
According to the City of Tampere, phased rent increases for housing leasehold plots will end in May 2026, affecting hundreds of lease agreements that expire across the city between 2026 and 2029.