It will be nearly another month before Norway's former prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg, can finally move home again. He was back in Oslo this week, though, on his last official visit as secretary general of NATO. Stoltenberg was making courtesy...

The numbers of Norwegians out on sick leave have reached their highest level in 15 years, according to new numbers from state statistics bureau SSB. Politicians and other state officials bemoan both the resulting lack of productivity and its costs...

Two animal rights organizations suspect that the friendly and popular white whale known as Hvaldimir, who swam into Norwegian waters five years ago, was intentionally shot and killed over the weekend. They have filed charges in a bid to...

Norway's King Harald V finally seems to have made an effort to clarify the lines of royal responsibility within what Norwegians call Kongehuset, literally The Royal House. The move comes after criticism around Princess Martha Louise's commercial exploitation of...

A new survey shows historically weak support among Norwegians for their monarchy. Only 40 percent disagreed when asked whether Crown Prince Haakon should be Norway's last king, and calls are rising for his sister to either give up her...

NEWS ANALYSIS: Weeks of turmoil around Norway's royal family were reaching a climax during the weekend, with the controversial second wedding of King Harald's now-middle-aged daughter to a self-professed American shaman. Meanwhile, the king's wayward step-grandson was allowed to...

Flight attendants at Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) had to go on strike for them, but have now won many of the standard pay and benefits held by other workers. That prompted them to call off the strike they'd called last...

Norway's Labour-led government unveiled its proposal for what it called a "new, updated and wide-ranging abortion law" that's more in line with current practice and social values. It expands the rights of women to opt for an abortion from...