Paw the hoof and lock the horns: the race is on for Queen of the Cows title
GenevaLunch News Finals are just 2 weeks away and Valais’s finest Alpine cows show their stuff in Mollens arena GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – You know spring is here when Swiss cows begin to fight (tourism...
View ArticleRiddes lumberyard fire under investigation
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A lumberyard in the centre of the small town of Riddes, between Martigny and Sion in canton Valais, went up in flames around 22:00 Sunday night 20 May, causing...
View ArticleSkeletons found in Fiesch hold decades-old climbers’ secrets
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A canton Valais mountain guide called police 26 June at 17:00 with a gruesome discovery, skeletons that appeared to date back decades, washed down by the Aletsch...
View ArticleArmy makes final check on Chamoson forest fire
GenevaLunch News BERN, SWITZERLAND – The forest fire that broke out just above the vineyards of Chamoson, canton Valais, last Thursday, 23 August, is under control, with the Swiss Army making final...
View ArticleMan shoots and kills 3, injures 2 in Conthey, Valais (update 8)
GenevaLunch News Correction: assult rifle was not used GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Three people have died and two were injured at the hands of a 33-year-old man in the village of Daillon, Conthey commune, in...
View ArticleSion wins best Swiss urban award for 2013, Wakker prize
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The 2013 Wakker prize has been awarded to the capital of canton Valais, Sion, for successfully implementing a programme to highlight its urban heritage and to put...
View ArticleValais man dies after car plunges 300 metres
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A 33-year-old Valais man died Thursday 24 January in hospital, hours after his car plunged over the side of a road between Nax and Grône. The accident occurred at...
View ArticlePoachers in upper Valais guilty of illegal shooting, arms trafficking
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A gang of 13 poachers in the area of Naters, in the Goms Valley, canton Valais, have been found guilty of a number of charges, bringing to a close an...
View ArticleValais police chief found guilty of stealing Turkish stone
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Christian Varone, police chief in canton Valais, was found guilty by a Turkish court Tuesday 19 March, of stealing an “archeological fragment”, a stone from near...
View ArticleProvins, Switzerland’s largest winery, files charges for defamation
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Provins, canton Valais cooperative winery and Switzerland’s largest wine producer, has filed criminal charges against an unknown person(s) for defamation and...
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