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Sami Parliament reopened, too

Amidst all the recent media coverage in Norway over the opening of Parliament, the change in government in Oslo and its roster of new...

Blazing a new trail in the Arctic

VARDØ: The prime summer season is winding down for the pioneering vessels blazing a new maritime trail through the much-vaunted Northeast Passage. In this...

Rocket fiasco stuns its launchers

Researchers at the Andøya Rakettskytefelt in northern Norway, which claims to have been launching rockets for 50 years, were chastened and confused after a...

Tourism slumps, hotel stars dumped

Hotel occupancy figures from Norway's important summer season show an overall decline nationwide, with Northern Norway hit surprisingly hard.  Trade Minister Trond Giske, meanwhile, has given...

An unconventional look at Bardu

VIDEO FEATURE: Bardu is the title of  the latest unconventional view of Norway by artist Kristian Larsen, whose innovative Oslo in motion video got a lot...

Reindeer herd found shot

Police in Norway's most northern county of Finnmark were investigating the shootings of 24 reindeer whose carcasses were found in the mountains at Nordmannset...

Finnmark hit by lightning

Wide areas of Finnmark in Northern Norway have been hit by thunder and lightning in recent days that struck, among other things, the data...

Arctic community looks to the light

VARDØ: While Norwegians make the most of their short summer, hardy citizens of this small island city up in Norway's far northeast can't claim...

State cancels contract with bankrupt construction firm

Norway's state highway department (Statens Vegvesen) has cancelled all three contracts it had with bankrupt Austrian construction firm Alpine Bau, after the firm's bankruptcy...

Bankruptcy halts major projects

The bankruptcy last week of an Austrian construction firm is causing problems for some major road projects in Norway. Work stopped on the expansion...
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