December 26, 2025. One fateful call pinged Vancouver Canucks goaltender Kevin Lankinen’s phone.

Seattle Kraken forwards Eeli Tolvanen and Kaapo Kakko were named to Team Finland for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano Cortina, Italy.

The whole country feels designed with children in mind, from Helsinki’s playful public spaces to the wide-open north. Especially around Christmastime, Finnish Lapland — an hour’s flight or an overnight train ride from the capital — draws families chasing a real-world version of the North Pole fantasy.

It’s time to visit the happiest country in the world — Finland! Finland has emerged victorious five times in a row (since 2018) in the World Happiness Report, which measures national happiness based on how people evaluate their own lives. One of the ...

HELSINKI — Finland and Sweden recorded the coldest temperatures of the winter Tuesday as thermometers plummeted to minus 40 degrees Celsius (minus 40 Fahrenheit) as a result of a cold spell prevailing in the Nordic region. In Nikkaluokta, a small village ...