The first Hel.fi pages were published in May 1995. You can now travel back in time to the old Hel.fi pages! What happened in May 1995, at a time when the Mayor of Helsinki was Kari Rahkamo? What did the pages look like in 1997? How about in 1999?

City of Helsinki and Metsähallitus announce the Clean Vallisaari Innovation Competition on 1 March 2016. The organisers of the competition are looking for creative and viable technical solutions to enable the development of the historic island into an ecological destination for nature tourism and recreation. The competition runs from 1 March to 23 May 2016.

The fee to register as a Helsinki city bike user is €25 per year, €10 per week and €5 per day. The city bike system will be launched just after the First of May, first with 50 city bike stations and 500 bikes.

Actors of the healthcare industry signed a significant contract, which brings together research, know-how and business activities of life science and health technology.

The English section of the Helsinki-info bulletin’s new edition presents Helsinki Business Hub, reviews an ongoing project in Helsinki to digitalize school education and introduces a Moroccan immigrant to Helsinki.

For the centre of Central Pasila, the City of Helsinki is selling land and rights to use or manage land for a total of 46 million euros. The excavation work is already in progress.

The region envisioned by the City Council would comprise the Helsinki metropolitan area and possibly some nearby municipalities. The Government-proposed autonomous region comprising the entire Uusimaa region fails to address the special features of the Helsinki metropolitan area.

First exhibitions of the new Helsinki City Museum, opening near the Senate Square in 13 May 2016, has been published. In May, the internationally renowned Museum of Broken Relationships will be exhibited for the first time in Finland. The new museum will also showcase Helsinki Bites, an updated Children’s Town, as well as journeys to the past in the Time Machine.