Tag: holidays
Sami mark 30th national day in the cold
Norway's indigenous Sami people have their own Parliament and are in the midst of a cultural reawakening. On the 30th anniversary of their national...
Busy New Year’s Eve for the police
Police in Oslo had to deal with everything from illegal and dangerous use of fireworks to a shooting and, in Haugesund, even someone biting...
King Harald: ‘We need one another’ in a troubled new year
Norway's 85-year-old monarch defied illness and a recent hospitalization to once again address the nation on New Year's Eve, during what he repeatedly referred...
Oslo drops official New Year fireworks
The Norwegian capital has become the only major city in the country to drop traditional fireworks displays at midnight on New Year's Eve this...
Oslo tries to send a better Christmas tree to London this year
Stung by criticism over the looks of the Christmas trees Oslo has recently sent to London, top officials in the Norwegian capital have made...
SAS ‘devastated’ by pilots’ strike
The furious chief executive of Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) didn't mince words when he met reporters in Stockholm on Monday, just after SAS pilots in...
Summer holidays saved for many
Airline passengers in Norway are still troubled by strikes and strike threats, but tens of thousands still hope they'll be able to fly off...
Young Liberals want to drop religious holidays
Right in the middle of Norway's Ascension Day holiday weekend came calls from the Liberal Party's youth group to do away with all of...
Massive turnout on the 17th of May
This was the scene in Oslo on Tuesday, when hundreds of thousands of Norwegians turned out for their first "proper" Constitution Day celebrations on...
17th of May stages a ‘non-political’ comeback after Corona
After two years of Corona cancellations, millions of Norwegians were ready to celebrate their cherished Constitution Day on the 17th of May again. Record...
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