The sidewalk going up the Aare River is congested with wet and happy Swiss, hiking upstream ... up in the current and propelled toward Bern, the grand capital city of Switzerland, amid carefree ...

Leaping in, I'm immediately caught up in the current and propelled toward the grand capital ... Swiss day anywhere other than high in the Alps, I'd make an exception for urban but easygoing Bern.

Last month, when the 80 members of Bern’s city parliament met for their ... one of the first women elected to the Swiss parliament, describes how she paid a high price for her fight for women ...

The capital of ... the proposal in Bern would be the first to make the white powder legal for recreational use, a radical step in drug policy if it goes through. Wealthy Swiss cities have some ...