Royals forced to flee SAS flight

Norway’s Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit were among 135 passengers ordered to evacuate an Oslo-bound Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) flight when it suddenly ran into trouble on take-off Sunday morning. The drama at Copenhagen’s Kastrup Airport left all of them shaken but SAS denied there was any real danger. Passengers told Norwegian media that [...]

Memorial held for father of Eurovision winner

Memorial services were held on Sunday for Jeff Mwangi Kwirikia, father of singer Stella Mwangi, after he was killed by a hit-and-run driver at Dal in Akershus last week. The 54-year-old native of Kenya was hailed for integrating his children into Norwegian life without letting them forget where they came from. The memorial was organized [...]

Search ends for men missing in storm

Three Icelandic fishermen remained missing and were presumed dead on Thursday after their boat sank in stormy seas about 270 kilometers northwest of Norway’s West Cape at Stad on Wednesday. The storm, meanwhile, halted helicopter traffic to several oil rigs in the North Sea. Search and rescue officials said there was no chance of finding [...]

‘Berserk’ captain draws more critics

UPDATED: Authorities in New Zealand and Norway fear the former captain of the ill-fated vessel Berserk, which disappeared in Antarctica last year with three crew members on board, is making another illegal attempt to reach the South Pole by first sailing into the area on a different vessel. Others now claim Jarle Andhøy is instead trying [...]

Top politician forced to be a pedestrian

One of Norway’s most high-profile, veteran politicians, Carl I Hagen, won’t be allowed to drive for the next six months. Police seized his driver’s license after Hagen hit two pedestrians in a crosswalk three weeks ago, and they’ve decided to hang onto it. That means Hagen must be a pedestrian himself, as part of his [...]

Avalanche warnings in the mountains

Norway’s state meteorological institute was warning Friday of high avalanche danger in the mountains of southern Norway, following heavy snowfall earlier in the week and rising temperatures. Two persons were dug out of the snow at a ski resort in Ørsta after a slide  Thursday evening. Both had skied off piste, away from the prepared [...]

Reindeer round-up turned fatal

An investigation was underway Thursday into the crash of a helicopter in Northern Norway that killed both of its passengers. The crash occurred while they were flying over a mountainous area near Mosjøen, to round up reindeer. Search and rescue workers found the wreckage and the bodies of both the helicopter’s Swedish pilot and his [...]

Evacuees finally allowed home

Around three dozen people who were evacuated from their homes on New Year’s Day, following a major landslide, were finally allowed to return to their homes this week. One family, however, still had to wait. Some had been allowed to return earlier to their property at Byneset in Trøndelag but others remained at a hotel [...]

Hagen shaken after car accident

Veteran Norwegian politician Carl I Hagen, former head of the conservative Progress Party, seemed on the verge of tears after suffering what he called “every motorist’s nightmare.” Hagen hit two pedestrians with his car while driving to a New Year’s Eve party in Oslo. Hagen told Norway’s TV2 he was “in despair” after the weekend [...]

Most slide evacuees still can’t return

UPDATED: Nearly 20 persons remained under evacuation orders on Tuesday, after geologists couldn’t declare that landslides on their properties had stopped sliding. Two families were allowed to return to their homes, but the others stayed at a hotel in Trondheim. Police only allowed the rest of the evacuees brief visits to their homes, under escort, [...]

New storm hit as costs piled up

Damage and disruption continued to pile up after a new storm hit Norway earlier this week, even before clean-up after the weekend hurricane could begin. Strong winds and heavy rain flooded towns in the mountains and along the coast, key rail lines were blocked and all highways over the mountains were closed except for two, [...]

Hurricane hammered the holidays

One of the strongest hurricanes to ever hit Norway hammered coastal areas during the Christmas weekend and left a wide path of destruction throughout the south, west and northwest. Winds were clocked at more than 200 kilometers an hour, terrifying residents in many areas and leaving more than 100,000 homes without power. Damage reports were [...]

Statoil learns from Gullfaks trouble

Norwegian oil company Statoil claims it has “sharpened routines” and learned from the trouble it had at its Gullfaks C well in the North Sea last year. Meanwhile, a probe of the trouble found that Statoil leaders need to listen more to their employees and get better at accepting criticism. Statoil had a series of [...]

Fire kills 900 pigs in Romsdal

A blaze that swept through a barn in Rypdal, just south of Vestnes in the county of Møre og Romsdal, left around 900 pigs dead over the weekend. An estimated 95 piglets were rescued. Emergency crews said around 700 to 800 pigs were killed in the fire and another hundred had to be destroyed. Another [...]

Guests escaped Levanger hotel fire

Flames gutted the popular restaurant of a hotel in downtown Levanger, northeast of Trondheim, during the night, forcing the evacuation of hotel guests and ruining the busy Christmas party season for both holidaymakers and the hotel-restaurant operators. There were no injuries. “This couldn’t have happened at a worse time,” Knut Strugstad, who runs Restaurant No39 [...]

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