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Storm eases after massive disruption

Blizzards accompanied by strong winds forced closure of Norway's gateway airport north of Oslo on Saturday. The storm also toppled trees, shut down public transport systems and cut power to thousands of homes. It was snowing horizontally in most...

Storm warnings move Birkebeiner ski race

The traditional Birkebeiner ski race over the mountains of eastern Norway is being moved for the first time ever, from Saturday to Sunday this weekend. Organizers feared strong winds and heavy rain could have forced cancellation otherwise. Both the jury and...

King Harald heads home with new pacemaker

UPDATED: Norway's King Harald V, Europe's oldest reigning monarch, was released from the national hospital on Thursday and could finally head home, after receiving a new and permanent pacemaker to improve his heart beat. It replaces a temporary pacemaker...

New trade deal with India draws cheers

Norway's national employers' organization NHO was jubilant after the government announced a new trade deal with India over the weekend. It will mostly eliminate customs duty on Norwegian exports over the next five to nine years. India will also...

Norway to re-assess its role in Afghanistan

After lots of criticism over the lack of a public evaluation of Norwegian military and civilian operations in Afghanistan, Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide now promises to provide one. It comes after the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021,...

Bergen bans camping in public areas

Bergen's city government has voted to forbid overnight camping in public parks, open spaces, along roads or in local town squares and other public areas. Critics claim it's aimed at keeping homeless people off the streets. "Bergen is beginning to...

State wins over Jehovas Witness’ complaint

Norway's Jehovas Witnesses have lost their legal effort to regain the state financial support that's offered to all religious organizations. Their's was cut after the state determined that the Jehovas Witnesses don't comply with rules that members must freely...

Helicopter accident tied to technical failure

Norway's accident investigation board (Havarikommisjonen) suspects technical failure is behind the fatal accident last week that ended with a helicopter landing in the cold waters of the North Sea and then sinking. One person was killed and five others...

Someone sent hash to the prime minister

Norwegian security officials have been "sharpening routines" after a packet addressed to Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre made it though screening equipment and was delivered to his office. It contained cannabis. The unwelcome delivery just over a month ago set...

Belgian soldiers indicted after brawl

Norwegian prosecutors have now indicted a total of eight Belgian soldiers after a brawl outside a pub in Åndalsnes in mid-February. The soldiers were in Norway for military winter exercises among troops that otherwise are NATO allies. Reportedly good humour...

Helicopter crash turned fatal

Air transport to Norwegian offshore oil and gas installations in the North Sea was suspended Thursday after a Sikorsky S-92 helicopter crashed during a training mission Wednesday night. One of the six on board was killed. Hospital officials in Bergen...

King Harald hospitalized in Malaysia

Norway's King Harald V has fallen ill while on vacation in Malaysia, according to a press release from the Royal Palace Tuesday afternoon. He's suffering from an infection and been hospitalized, reportedly in the popular resort area of Langkawi. Norway's...

Population tops 5.5 million

Norway started the year with an official population of 5,550,203. That amounts to a slight rise from the same time last year but many areas in the far north would have seen population declines if it hadn't been for...

Drones disturb winter holidays

Norwegians taking time off at mountain cabins during this week's winter holidays have something new to complain about in the popular Sjusjøen area near Lillehammer: The noise of drones now being used to deliver sushi to neighbours' doorsteps. "I think...

Belgian defense officials apologize for brawl

Belgian defense officials were apologizing to their Norwegian hosts this week after several Belgian soldiers were involved in a mass brawl outside a pub in Åndalsnes last weekend. One Norwegian resident wound up in hospital in Molde with serious...

Norway ends its ‘au pair’ program

The Norwegian government is following through with plans to phase out Norway's au pair program, after years of complaints that it was exploited by Norwegians who used it as means of obtaining low-cost domestic help at home. No further au...

Mass-murderer appeals loss in court

The extremist right-wing Norwegian terrorist who killed 77 people during his attack on the Norwegian government and Labour Party in 2011 has lost his latest lawsuit against the state. A local court disagreed that his prison conditions violate his...

Several Norwegians remain caught in Gaza

Norway's foreign ministry has confirmed that more than 20 Norwegians and Palestinians with legal ties to Norway still haven't managed to get of war-torn Gaza. Norwegian officials have been unable to negotiate their release into Egypt and now urge...

Motive unclear in triple murder and suicide

Police said this week that they may never learn the motive of a 65-year-old man who shot and killed both his daughters and his 10-month-old granddaughter before shooting and killing himself at the family's home at Nes in Romerike,...

Police confirm missing man was murdered

Police have confirmed that burned human remains found at a farm in Løten, just east of Hamar, are those of Ole Andreas Sønstvedt, a 37-year-old man who was reported missing by his family in mid-January. Police had already arrested...

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