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

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

Travel company, TUI, has added a family-friendly day trip to Lapland to its Winter 2026 travel calendar - inclusive of ...

67.81 °N, 24.81 °E Sirkka, Lapland, Finland 10-Day Weather Forecast star_ratehome ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.