Every year, the World Happiness Report reminds the world that Finland sits comfortably at the top. For seven years running, ...

The Finnish are well known for their minimalist, no-frills approach to life, which is reflected in their ever-present attention to design in architecture, fashion, furniture, transportation, and so on ...

Connections Boxberry School students focus on Finnish culture, history Students in grades three through six at The Boxberry School have been studying the history of the town, which includes Finnish ...

When “Freespace” was chosen as the the theme of this year’s Architecture Biennale, commissioner Hanna Harris, director of ArchInfo Finland, saw an opportunity. She had already been contemplating the ...

Not too long ago, Finland was the model for how a wealthy, egalitarian culture could be pro-family and thus have a lot of babies. “Finnish baby boxes” were held up as a synecdoche of how a social ...

Eighty years after they were created as a reaction to the darkness of WWII, the cutesy white creatures have found fans across ...

SAGINAW — Looking to celebrate the longest day of the year Finnish-style? The Finlandia Foundation Northland has you covered with its annual Juhannus celebration Saturday from 1-4 p.m. at Sampo Beach, ...

HELSINKI, Finland -- A teenage killer's deadly school rampage has put Finns on the defensive about their relationship to guns. With 1.6 million firearms in private hands, the Nordic nation is an ...

HELSINKI, Nov. 8 -- Deep inside a mothballed nuclear fallout shelter in this Nordic capital city, the sound of muffled pistol fire thumps through the walls. About a half-dozen Finns -- including a ...