Tag: accidents

Frozen rain left traffic frozen, too

UPDATED: Traffic in much of southern Norway, including the entire Oslo metropolitan area, was all but paralyzed Tuesday morning after a sudden change in the weather....

Oslo, Bærum hit by major power failure

Wide areas of downtown Oslo, the western districts of the capital and the neighbouring suburb of Bærum were hit by power failures around midday...

Historic few dying in fires

Figures released recently by the state agency in charge of security and preparedness, DSB, show that 27 people had died in fires in Norway...

Statoil accused of ‘criminal’ spill

Norwegian environmental organization Bellona has accused state oil company Statoil of environmental crime, after crude oil leaked Thursday from its offshore installation in the...

Russians sail to Norwegian tanker’s aid

A Russian tug boat left Murmansk on Wednesday evening to sail to the aid of a Norwegian oil products tanker that was disabled in the Barents Sea. The...

Residents wait for another mountain to fall

Residents of a small village in Northern Norway have been evacuated after rocks started falling from the mountainside towering over their farm.On Friday, geologists...

Man killed by latest storm in Trøndelag

A man from Agdenes on the fjord northwest of Trondheim was found dead during the night after he'd ventured outdoors to secure his property during the...

Missing pilot found dead with crashed glider

Police in Gudbrandsdalen confirmed Monday that they had found the wreckage of a glider and its missing pilot at an elevation of 1,700 meters...

Search resumed for missing glider pilot

Two helicopters and seven small aircraft resumed the search Monday morning for a missing glider pilot who disappeared while out flying around Bjorli in...

Mountain set off red alerts again

UPDATED: It was another tense weekend for residents living under the mountain formation known as "Mannen" in the central Norwegian county of Møre og...
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