Every week, The Local invites readers to submit their pictures to our photo competition, to bring our audience together from all parts of Sweden. This week's winner is Kalicharan Sethupathy, who sent ...

For the Monson family of Minneapolis, summer officially begins the Swedish way, as friends and three generations of relatives gather annually in their welcoming back yard on June 21 to eat, sing and ...

Crowds won't be a fixture of this year's celebrations, but flower crowns and strange dancing certainly will be. Photo: Per Bifrost/imagebank.sweden.se Midsummer is one of the oldest and most widely ...

Make like the Swedes and celebrate the longest day of the year with flowers in your hair and an all-day party. In Sweden, Midsummer – or Midsommar – is a summer solstice holiday riotously celebrated ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The American Swedish Historical Museum sits in the scenic FDR Park, a legacy building from the city's 1926 sesquicentennial celebration. "We were supposed to have our grand ...

Early on in the pandemic, artist Geert van der Vossen was driving home in Sweden and listening to the news on the radio and worrying about the horrors to come. There weren't many Swedish cases of ...

The Swedish royal family celebrated baby Princess Adrienne's christening on Friday - and boy, did they nail it with their occasion-wear. Proud mum Princess Madeleine looked incredible in a beautiful ...