Tag: accidents

Three found dead in border lake

Two Danish men and the six-year-old son of one of them have been found dead, floating in a remote lake just over the border of the Femund...

Major fire in Tønsberg forced evacuations

A fire in a warehouse complex in Tønsberg continued to burn out of control Thursday evening, sending off huge volcano-like flumes of smoke and...

Bus accident closed Trollstigen

UPDATED: It happened again on Thursday: A tour bus driver failed to negotiate one of the sharp hairpin turns on Norway's popular County Road...

Queen helps teens after boat accident

Two teenagers out on a boat off the island of Tjøme this week came to the aid of an injured girl in the water, and they...

Burned-out tunnel faces long closure

It's expected to take "a long time" before state highway officials reopen a tunnel in western Norway that was the site of dramatic explosions...

Three killed in collision with a moose

The eastern city of Elverum in Hedmark County was in sorrow this week after three teenagers riding in a car driven at high speed...

Northug quietly served his time

Top Norwegian skier Petter Northug, disgraced in a drunk-driving accident last year, disclosed this week that he's already finished serving his detention time by wearing...

E18 highway bridge to reopen Friday

Two lanes of a bridge that's part of the heavily trafficked four-lane E18 highway south of Oslo are set to reopen on Friday, the Transport...

Major highway may reopen to ease summer traffic

The heavily trafficked E-18 highway southwest of Oslo, closed since one of its bridges collapsed last winter, may reopen before the busy summer holiday season...

Academy mourns prizewinner’s death

It was just last week that the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters was celebrating famed mathematicians John Nash and Louis Nirenberg, and awarding them...

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