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Storm sweeps over Northern Norway

The extreme weather system known as "Kyrre" swept its way northwards on Friday, knocking out power around Lofoten, damaging property and blowing a bus...

Ekran wins Finnmark dogsled race

Sigrid Ekran, a 34-year-old professional dogsled racer, won the tough 1,000-kilometer Finnmarksløpet in Northern Norway on Friday. She used nearly six days but crossed...

Car thief’s getaway runs out of gas

A hapless car thief in northern Norway stole a convertible and then called the car's owner, Anne Kristin Korsfur, from a mobile phone he...

Fine for 90-year-old ‘Lifejacket Arne’

A 90-year-old man who became an unlikely celebrity when he staged his own legal defense over charges of failing to wear a life jacket...

Arctic Frontiers conference sets new records

With more than a thousand participants from 31 countries, this year's Arctic Frontiers conference in the northern Norwegian city of Tromsø set another record...

Toilets froze, school forced to close

It was so cold in Northern Norway on Monday that the water in the toilets at a school in Kautokeino froze. "When we also...

New oil discovery comes amidst cuts

Just as the Norwegian government is being urged to slow down the pace of offshore oil and gas production comes news that state-controlled Statoil...

Foreign minister seeks ‘Silicon Valley’ up north

Norway's new foreign minister, Børge Brende, says he'll continue to emphasize the Arctic areas and pay lots of attention to Northern Norway, carrying on...

Spy news can sour Russian relations

As revelations of US spying continue to leak out of documents distributed by defected American Edward Snowden, some of them may cause conflicts for...

Arctic interests clash over mining

The recent discovery of new and potentially lucrative mineral veins containing copper in the mountains above the Repparfjord in Finnmark looks set to stir...
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