Memorial cruise, curling gold and leak repaired

A memorial cruise was held outside Örebro at the Marieberg shopping centre on Saturday evening for a 20-year-old woman from Avesta who died of blood cancer. Sweden’s women’s curling team won European Championship gold after defeating Switzerland 7–2, and the water leak in Kumla has now been fully repaired. At the same time, the police are warning about scams in which someone calls and then comes to your home.

Memorial cruise for 20-year-old woman from Avesta

On Saturday evening, people gathered at the Marieberg shopping centre outside Örebro for a memorial cruise in memory of a 20-year-old woman from Avesta who recently died of blood cancer. In January 2026, she was diagnosed with AML, acute myeloid leukemia, an aggressive form of blood cancer, and she underwent chemotherapy and stem cell transplantation during the year. Less than a week before she passed away, she married her boyfriend.

The organiser wrote in the invitation that the evening would offer ”a bit of bustle” and create an evening to remember her by, and according to one of the organisers, the friends did ”everything she had loved to do”. Laleh's song Some die young played over the car park. SVT Nyheter Örebro, Nerikes Allehanda

Sweden’s women’s curling team won European Championship gold

Sweden’s women’s curling team won European Championship gold after defeating Switzerland 7–2 in the final in Ostrava, Czech Republic. The team is called Lag Isabella Wranå and kept their cool all the way through.

“Absolutely incredible, it feels completely wonderful and I’m so incredibly happy about how we played this match,” said one of the players after winning her first championship gold with the team. Nerikes Allehanda

The water leak in Kumla has been fully repaired

The water pipe damaged during excavation work last week, which caused concern about water shortages in Kumla and Hallsberg, has now been repaired. According to Kumla municipality (the local authority responsible for, among other things, water, schools and elderly care in the municipality), work on the damaged pipe is complete and the water supply is back to normal operation.

On Wednesday, the leak was temporarily repaired and the leakage had decreased, but the permanent repair has now been completed. This means residents and businesses can use the water as usual again. SVT Nyheter Örebro

Police warn about fraud

The police are now issuing a warning about scams in which a person first calls and is then followed up by a home visit, where the fraudsters take valuables. “There is a great deal of this happening right now,” says Karin Linder, press spokesperson for the police. A 76-year-old man says he was called and urged to pay 245 euro for a package from Oslo, but realized that something was fishy.

During the week, the police were present at the Ica Maxi stores near the university and Boglundsängen to provide information to the public. The police advise anyone who is targeted to report the crime, both when fraud has been completed and when an attempted fraud has occurred. SVT Nyheter Örebro

The old sanatorium in Hålahult is to become a haunted house

The old sanatorium in Hålahult, north of Örebro, is to be transformed into a destination for visitors seeking thrills and mystery. Behind the venture are the organizers of the zombie race “Run for your lives” in Örebro, who have bought the building and plan a wide range of activities there. It is not yet certain, but in one year the doors are to open for real.

Among other things, it will be possible to get married with a vampire theme and to be chased through a maze of stacked containers, but the idea is not to turn the sanatorium into a pure haunted house – the organizers also want to preserve the building's history and everyone who lived and died there. SVT Nyheter Örebro

In brief

• Police were called at 9 on Saturday to an address in Vivalla in Örebro. A man in his 60s was taken to hospital and a woman in her 20s was arrested – the incident is being investigated as attempted murder or alternatively aggravated assault. SVT Nyheter Örebro
• Degerfors, which is fighting for survival in Allsvenskan (the top tier of men's football), visited Djurgården in Stockholm on Saturday, with kick-off at 14.00. Nerikes Allehanda
• ÖSK lost away to Umeå. Nerikes Allehanda
• A Rögle player is suspended for four matches after receiving a match penalty for a head tackle in Saturday's SHL match (Sweden's highest ice hockey league) against Örebro. Nerikes Allehanda
• Lillån's coach enters the World Championship qualification as Polish national team coach, after Lillån lost the league final at home to Telge by a single goal. Nerikes Allehanda
• A 22-year-old artist with an album out has moved to Örebro for love and broke through partly thanks to his mother sending in his demo recordings. Nerikes Allehanda
• Police describe Halloween night in Örebro as ”drunkenness and chaos” and say that it was fairly expected. Nerikes Allehanda
• New DNA technology has increased the number of database matches at Nationellt forensiskt centrum (NFC), the police's forensic laboratory, by 150 percent since spring 2025. Nerikes Allehanda
• Nerikes Allehanda has a quiz with 10 questions about Kumla. Nerikes Allehanda