Fantastic news for internet addicts across the country. Finland will be the first country in the world to make broadband access a legal right.

Suomalainen Kirjakauppa will shut down it's smaller city centre branch at the beginning of next year to concentrate on the Rotuaari shop.

The City of Oulu has radically overhauled its English-language pages in the hope of making them easier to use for immigrants and expats.

Finnish company Patria Aviation, along with researchers at Oulu University's Centre for Wireless Communications, have developed 'smart clothes' not unlike those worn by the characters in Star Trek.

Stockmann's twice yearly 'Crazy Days' sale took off yesterday with eager shoppers cramming into the store for the best bargains.

There is a link between a low birth-weight and a cautious, conscientious personality in adulthood according to Finnish medics.

Former president Martti Ahtisaari claims that Finns don’t speak good enough Swedish. You might not realise it but there is an active Swedish-speaking minority in Oulu. 65DN went to their main stronghold.

Food prices across Finland have gone down today to about the same level as 2005. But for the real culinary bargains in Oulu, you need to buy Iraqi.

Guinness and fiddles will be in action throughout Oulu this weekend as the city celebrates its annual Irish festival.

Oulu's rockers are in for a treat. A weekly radio programme dedicated solely to Oulu-based rock music will begin in three days time.