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More than 100 people, some masked, attacked officers clearing an illegal party on Saturday night. One officer was injured, about 20 containers burned, and police suspect preparation.
The agency kept the top grade and cut the outlook to negative, with a one-in-three chance of a downgrade within two years. Leupi promises tighter priorities.
The second Resilience Weeks run through October: emergency meeting points, 80 spring-fed fountains that work without power, and a household rule of 9 litres per person.
Garaventa returned a refitted tunnel tube to service, with stage two due in November. Days earlier the airport handled a record 123,000 passengers in one day.
Participants knelt for a minute of silence on Bahnhofstrasse before marching from Helvetiaplatz toward Langstrasse. The protest stayed peaceful under a large police presence.
Three driverless electric cars now connect around 100 stops in Boppelsen, Danikon, Huttikon and Otelfingen, a first for public transport in Switzerland.
The Council of States chose 90 percent CET1 backing for UBS foreign units, stricter than the committee plan and short of the government's 100 percent.
The finance minister and the UBS chief executive restated capital positions that do not meet, a day before the Senate vote.
Sunday was the funfair. Monday was the rifle, and a thinner tram toward Wollishofen.
Carnival rides, sausage stalls and a rifle range older than the federal state filled the meadow above Wollishofen.
Planners estimate 12,000 new apartments by 2030, but tenant advocates say the measure alone will not cool rents in districts 1 through 4.
The Real Estate Risk Index slipped to 3.5 in the second quarter, the first easing in three years, with no broad price correction in sight.
Scientifica, Switzerland's largest science festival, opens in Zurich for a run that lasts until 30 August.
A check on Wasserwerkstrasse turned into an assault on officers. Three were sent for medical examination. The suspect was arrested.
The autumn scramble started in August, which is how you know the market has no slack.
Love mobiles and electronic music take the Zurich lake basin from early afternoon until midnight for the 33rd Street Parade.
The holiday ends when the bins are full and the 10 a.m. tram is late with people going to swim anyway.
July in Zurich is a commuting pattern that ends in a locker, not in a living room.
The first serious heat in the city always goes to the lake, because the lake is still public.
The densest cities are voting on a ceiling they have already almost reached in spirit.
The first hot Sunday is a civic event in a city that treats the lake as public furniture.
The cranes that are still are waiting for a credit committee, not for an architect.
The guilds marched. The Boegg burned. The lake wind did not take a holiday.
Zurich is not a carnival city in the Basel sense. It still finds a Tuesday to make a noise.
A Wednesday viewing for a three-room flat still drew a corridor of people holding folders.
The emergency is over. The spreadsheet is not.
The new year did not add listings. It added applicants who had waited until after the holidays.
The bishop's mitre and a sack of peanuts still beat a shopping-centre Santa in this city, just.
The flyers connected palaces to rents. The doorsteps connected everything to the health bill.
The lake is still pretty. It is no longer a plan for children who forgot a towel.
The map said no for hours. The largest canton said yes late, and that was enough.
Carnival rides and a rifle range older than the federal state shared a Monday with the Bundeshaus.
The music stops at midnight. The brooms start before the second coffee.
Eight stages, 30 Love Mobiles, and a city that knows how to close a quay.
The federal speech was in another city. The lake did the local version with light.
When the flat stays warm, the city becomes a public living room with a better breeze.
The first weekend that felt like summer turned the lakefront into a second city centre.
The cranes are visible. The permits behind them are not arriving fast enough to change the lists.
Winter was declared over by fire and brass. The lake, still cold, did not sign the minutes.
A city that argues about rents still knows how to put a snowman in the middle of the timetable.
Everyone wants a shorter ride. Nobody wants their street to be the worksite.
The city's empty-flat rate did not take a holiday. Cooperative clerks returned to the same arithmetic.