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Massive emergency effort saved scouts

Things went wrong at a major gathering of speidere (scouts) in Northern Norway this week. Nearly 60 of them had to be rescued by helicopter during...

Winds of fortune blow from the north

More record growth in its fishing and tourism industries, along with more looming oil and gas activity, have made Northern Norway the country's current...

Parliament to study Sami, Kven history

All the political parties in the Norwegian Parliament, with the exception of the two government parties, now support a proposal to officially examine the history...

Military exercises underway in Arctic

Northern Europe's largest air force exercises got underway in the Arctic on Monday, just as Norway's Northern Brigade also kicked off a military drill...

Northern Norway’s counties to merge

Northern Norway has long been divided into three counties: Finnmark in the far northeast, Troms farther to the west, and Nordland between Troms and...

Terror suspects grew up in Finnmark

Three young men who have been tied to Islamic extremism in the past three years all grew up in a small town in Norway's northernmost county...

‘Sensible’ Brende back in Russia

Norwegian Foreign Minister Børge Brende tried to dismiss his Russian counterpart's greeting on Wednesday as a joke, but the words from Sergey Lavrov lingered: Brende's first...

New airline faced delay on take-off

A new airline that's launching routes in Northern Norway, FlyViking, took off for the first time on Monday morning. Its first departure from Tromsø, however,...

Two Italian tourists caught in Lyngen avalanche

UPDATED: Another avalanche, this time in the Lyngen Alps of Northern Norway, crashed down on a group of ski tourists from Italy on Thursday...

Grandmother wins tough dogsled race in Finnmark

Elisabeth Edland, a 58-year-old grandmother who's also a veteran dogsled racer, was first over the finish line in Alta on Tuesday as the annual...
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