Five winners in Visit Sweden’s new global contest will receive yearlong usage rights to designated uninhabited islands—plus flights to experience the country’s wild landscapes up close.

Have you ever dreamed about escaping to your own private island? Through a new initiative, Sweden is giving travelers the chance to win an island for a year.

A program dubbed "the Lost Navy" is underway to identify the large number of Swedish naval shipwrecks lying on the bottom of the Baltic.

Sweden’s National Security Adviser Henrik Landerholm is warning citizens abroad to "observe increased vigilance and caution." Terrorist groups have called for attacks against Sweden following recent Quran burnings in the country. Sweden recently stepped ...