Tag: accidents
Fatal accident halted Dovrebanen
UPDATED: The railway line between Oslo and Trondheim known as Dovrebanen was halted on Wednesday after a passenger train collided with a truck on...
Search abandoned for missing men
The families and friends of two young Norwegian men still missing on Greenland have given up their search efforts and returned to Norway. Neither...
Risky sports were fatal for foreigners
Four Ukrainians who drowned in the rapids of the Sjoa River over the weekend, and a Russian who died after jumping off the famous...
Gulf crisis plays into Lofoten conflict
It took them a while, but Norwegian environmental advocates and some top politicians are now sounding alarms over BP's oil rig disaster in the...
Grounded ship’s captain sent to jail
The captain of a Chinese bulker that grounded off the Telemark coast last summer and set off Norway's worst oil spill ever has been...
Volcano hit Norway hard
Norway, with its mountainous terrain and vast distances from north to south, is particularly dependent on air traffic. It's therefore considered among the countries...
Thousands of passengers stranded
Air traffic in or out of Norway is unlikely to resume for at least another day, perhaps two or three, until the danger of...
Volcano halts air traffic
Norwegian aviation officials closed the country’s air space on Thursday, after an enormous cloud of ash drifted closer from the latest volcanic eruption on...
Royals attend memorial for Poland
King Harald, Queen Sonja and Crown Princess Mette-Marit were among those attending a special memorial service Tuesday evening for the victims of a plane...
20 years since major ship fire
It's been 20 years since fire broke out onboard the Scandinavian Star, a passenger and car ferry sailing from Oslo to Fredrikshavn in Denmark....
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