Police to meet ferry disaster panel

Leaders of the Oslo Police have agreed to meet members of an expert panel who are demanding a new investigation into the deadly fire on board the ferry Scandinavian Star in 1990. The chief of police and chief of criminal investigations will take part in the meeting on Friday, after the panel issued its own report [...]

Search crews recover body of third avalanche victim

UPDATED: Search crews aided by the Norwegian military have finally found the bodies of all three men caught in an avalanche on Senja during the Easter holiday week. More bad weather forced an end to the weekend search that resulted in the recovery of two bodies on Sunday. The search resumed on Monday and police [...]

Royal Palace evacuated

King Harald and Queen Sonja were among the 82 persons evacuated from the Royal Palace in Oslo on Monday after fire alarms started ringing just before 11am. The king was in the process of meeting with the president of Lithuania when the first alarm went off. “The royal couple and the president were taken to [...]

New theories emerge into tragedy on board the ferry ‘Scandinavian Star’

Persons other than the truck driver accused of setting a fire on board the cruise ferry Scandinavian Star may have been responsible for the tragedy that killed 159 persons during a voyage from Oslo 23 years ago. New theories are emerging from a working group that’s conducted its own probe into the disaster. The newly [...]

Military joins search for avalanche victims

Norwegian soldiers, along with civil defense troops and the Red Cross, are joining the search for three men believed to have been buried under mounds of snow in an avalanche on Senja in northern Norway last week. Repeated efforts to locate the victims’ bodies have failed. The three men were out on a snowmobile trip [...]

Red Cross reports hectic Easter

Large numbers of Easter tourists in the mountains and on skis kept Red Cross emergency workers busy during last week’s annual påskeferie (Easter holiday). Red Cross volunteers responded to 377 accidents and treated 980 injuries, according to Red Cross officials. “The huge numbers of people heading outdoors this year is the main reason for the [...]

Brush fire flares up again

A stubborn brush fire south of Stavanger that’s foiled firefighters for the past two days flared up again on Tuesday. Smoke from the fire in the hills above Sandnes was visible over much of Nord-Jæren Tuesday morning. “We’re steadily getting new reports that the fire has flared up again in several places,” Gry Solem of [...]

Yet another avalanche hits Tromsø

Norway’s northern city of Tromsø, along with much of the northern region of the country, continued on Monday to be plagued by avalanches that have caused major emergencies throughout the Easter holiday week. Monday’s slide hit frighteningly close to home, in a residential area and close to a local school. The avalanche could be seen [...]

Three more caught in an avalanche

Yet another avalanche thundered down a mountainside on the large island of Senja south of Tromsø late Tuesday afternoon, just as three men were snowmobiling through the area. Two of them were brothers, all are believed to have been killed, and the community of Berg on Senja set up crisis teams while police issued more [...]

Polar bear shot during break-in

An overly curious and determined polar bear made the mistake of his life when he tried to break into a hytte (cabin) on Svalbard over the weekend. Attempts by the couple inside to scare off the bear failed, and they felt they had no choice but to shoot to kill. “They tried throwing lighted candles [...]

Avalanche danger dims sunny Easter

Norway’s traditional Easter skiing holidays in the mountains got off to a mostly sunny start, but the ongoing danger of avalanches hung over them like a dark cloud. Another man was killed during the weekend and a 12-year-old boy rushed to hospital after both were buried under mounds of snow in Tromsø and Sauda on [...]

Sauce and soup mixed up

Norwegian consumers who bought what they thought was a packet of carbonara pasta sauce mix under the Toro brand may be in for a surprise when they use it to make dinner. Around 4,000 so-called “economy-sized” packages of the carbonara mix got filled at the factory with asparagus soup mix instead, not the pasta sauce [...]

Avalanche alarms at highest level

Fresh snowfall, wind and daring skiers in steep areas have set off avalanche alarms all over Norway, just before next week’s traditional Easter holidays in the mountains get underway. Nine persons were caught in avalanches around Norway during the weekend, and one of them was killed. “The warning level where we are now, grade three, [...]

Power cut forced platform shutdown

Norwegian oil company Statoil was moving personnel off its Oseberg platform in the North Sea to land on Friday and taking them to the mainland, following a power failure on board the platform Thursday afternoon. The power failure in turn led to a gas leak, but it has been stopped. Statoil officials said that problems [...]

Many children injured in bus crash

More than 20 children were among 33 persons injured in a major chain collision on the E18 highway just north of Tønsberg Friday afternoon. Seven more motorists were injured and taken to emergency rooms in Follo after another chain collision on the E6 highway south of Oslo. Both accidents, along with several more, were linked [...]

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