The highest temperature of the heatwave, 31.7C, was measured at two locations, Ylitornio and Sodankylä, earlier this week.

The heatwave has left much of the country’s surface soil parched, prompting the Meteorological Institute to issue wildfire ...

It was 4 degrees Fahrenheit at 2:30 a.m. on a crisp winter night as our car pulled up to a working reindeer farm near Kilpisjärvi, a village in the extreme northwest corner of Lapland, Finland.

Your sleigh ride is here. Uber is officially launching the world’s first-ever on-demand sleigh rides in Lapland, Finland. From Dec. 12 to 18, riders in the area can call an Uber Sleigh — a ...

Luckily, there are some 200,000 reindeer in Lapland – and only 180,000 people. Huskies and white Samoyed were brought in from Siberia too, as working dogs to pull sleds.

Reindeer number in the hundreds of thousands in Finland. During the winter, the Finnish Road Safety Agency reports that up to 20 reindeer a day can be involved in traffic accidents, according to ...

A reindeer herder out of the Lapland region of Finland has shared tons of wondrous images of reindeer, showing us their true lives outside of Christmas folklore. Across the Northern edge of ...

HELSINKI -- Rudolph the reindeer is having a glittering antler makeover - the latest attempt to halt some of the thousands of road deaths of the roaming caribou in the wilds of Finland.

HELSINKI – Rudolph the reindeer is having a glittering antler makeover — the latest attempt to halt some of the thousands of road deaths of the roaming caribou in the wilds of Finland.

Lapland weather Temperatures can plunge as low as -58 degrees Farenheit in the winter, and the sun is not seen for days on end during the polar night (kaamos). Winter usually begins in the middle ...

Across Finland, 71,580 reindeer were slaughtered in 2013-14, versus 127,999 in 1994-95. Herders say this is because they are not the only ones after the reindeer.