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Snow stymies traffic over Saltfjellet

Winter returned with a vengeance on Tuesday to the mountains of north-central Norway called Saltfjellet. Both the main E6 highway and the rail line...

Norwegians help save woman in Nepal

Norwegian, French and Israeli rescue workers were involved Thursday in the dramatic rescue of a woman found under the rubble in Kathmandu, five days...

Norway to send more aid to Nepal

Prime Minister Erna Solberg and Prime Minister Børge Brende met with Norwegian humanitarian organizations on Tuesday afternoon and promised to contribute another NOK 100...

Norway rushes aid to quake victims

As the death toll from Saturday's killer quake in Nepal kept rising, Norway was joining international efforts to help survivors. Foreign Minister Børge Brende, a former...

Avalanche hurled skier to his death

UPDATED: Search and rescue crews found a body on Tuesday in a mountainous area of southern Norway where they were looking for a missing...

Ferry fire victims not forgotten

Tuesday marked 25 years since the fatal fire on board the cruise-ferry Scandinavian Star, while it was sailing south from Oslo to Frederikshavn in Denmark....

Missing skiers caught by the weather

UPDATED: After a long Easter weekend with remarkably few accidents, Red Cross search and rescue crews were suddenly confronted with an emergency on Monday:...

Skiers set off 70% of all avalanches

Extreme skiers seeking thrills set off the vast majority of avalanches in the mountains of Norway, and one Norwegian woman admitted she learned that the...

Polar bear attacks tourists on Svalbard

A group of six tourists out camping on Norway's northern archipelago of Svalbard was attacked by a polar bear near Fredheim, the local sheriff confirmed on...

Fire swept through school camp

UPDATED: Firefighters have determined that people were responsible for a fire that destroyed a mountain school used by students on excursion this week. Arson investigators claimed it...
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