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Equinor cost cuts tied to safety issues

The new CEO at troubled state oil company Equinor has conceded that the cost-cutting program he led during the last oil crisis may have...

Two men killed in avalanche

Another avalanche crashed down a mountainside in the popular skiing destination of Lyngen in Troms, Northern Norway, on Saturday. Two men from Tromsø got...

Complaints pile up against Equinor

Environmental organizations and some stock analysts are complaining that troubled state oil company Equinor isn't disclosing all its carbon emissions to the public and...

Violations found at Equinor gas plant

Norway's state oil company Equinor was subjected to yet another grilling this week. State petroleum authority PTIL released the results of its investigation into...

Adrift Dutch ship now under control

A Dutch cargo ship that lost power in a severe storm off Norway's west coast earlier this week was finally brought under tow in...

Cargo ship adrift in stormy seas

Norwegian officials were worrying about serious environmental damage after a Dutch cargo ship floundered in stormy seas off Ålesund on Monday and then lost...

Last body found in mudslide debris

Police in the rural community of Ask in Gjerdrum, northeast of Oslo, reported the discovery of a body in the remains of a massive...

No further probes of oil rig capsize

Norway's state Auditor General's office has determined that Norwegian authorities did not sufficiently follow up those who survived the capsizing of the oil platform...

Polar bear attacked man on Svalbard

Another of Norway's allegedly protected polar bears was shot and killed Tuesday morning after it attacked a man in the Mohn Bay area of...

El-scooter rider sentenced to jail

A 48-year-old man who ran down a pedestrian in Oslo last fall while riding an electric scooter at high speed has been sentenced to...

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