The Commission is investigating a contract between the Finnish nuclear energy consortium Fennovoima and a Russian raw materials supplier, to ensure that a proposed new power plant would not increase fuel dependence on Russia....
In her first comments as minister for state-owned companies, Sirpa Paatero raised the possibility that the long-discussed sell-off of the drinks maker Altia could be shelved....
A masked man or youth fired plastic pellets into a playground full of schoolchildren in Joensuu on Friday. Five children were hit but no-one was injured....
Interior Minister claims a ten-fold increase in individuals managing to avoid deportation because their home countries will only accept voluntary returnees, and suggests paying some failed asylum seekers to leave Finland....
High winds caused power outages to more than 4,000 households in western and southern parts of the country overnight. Another night of stormy weather is in the forecast for late Saturday....
Fitch Ratings has affirmed Finland's international credit rating as "AAA with Stable Outlook". Fitch expects real GDP growth in Finland to decline 0.1% on average this year, but for growth to pick up modestly over the years ahead....
The newspaper Keskisuomalainen reported on Saturday that the technical plans filed by the power company Fennovoima as part of its application for a permit to build a new nuclear plant in Finland were actually an old design by Russia's Rosatom for a plant near St. Petersburg....
A Cape Town man, accused of the racial abuse and assault of a domestic worker, will know on 24 October whether he will pay damages of R100 000 in a case before the Equality Court....
Civil society must work with government departments to ensure criminals are successfully reintegrated into society, Judge Nathan Erasmus says....
The North West University's Potchefstroom campus is still rooted in apartheid ideas, Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande says....
The engineer who designed the structure of the Tongaat Mall in KwaZulu-Natal will testify before the commission investigating the building's collapse, which left two people dead....
Efforts to put out a fire that broke out in the mountains between Swellendam and Barrydale in the Western Cape had to be scaled back because of poor weather....
It is clear from the outset that opposition parties had not meant to participate in good faith in Parliament's ad hoc committee on Nkandla, ANC Deputy Chief Whip Doris Dlakude says....
Former Blue Bulls rugby player Phindile Joseph Ntshongwana planned the murders of his four victims with an axe, the KwaZulu-Natal High Court has ruled....
The EFF is unconcerned by a report that about 100 of its Northern Cape members had defected back to the ANC....
Former Cape Times editor Alide Dasnois has filed papers in the Labour Court following her dismissal....
The water shortage "crisis" is under control for now, the parliamentary portfolio committee on water and sanitation has heard....
Academic and operational activities at all Tshwane University of Technology campuses will resume on Monday....
The Supreme Court of Appeal has decried prosecutors who delayed an appeal hearing in a rape case for 12 years....
Senior ANC MP Mathole Motshekga has reiterated that Public Protector Thuli Madonsela did not have the power to tell Parliament how to proceed....