Tag: Oslo
Oslo’s water project awash in high costs
Oslo's need for a new source of drinking water is turning out to be so costly that budgets are spilling over once again. Phase...
Oslo water project drains City Council
The scenic Holsfjord west of Oslo looks so peaceful, but a costly project to divert water from it to provide new drinking water reserves...
Population growing even faster than expected
Norway has been attracting a lot of new residents in recent years, not least because of its strong economy, and the population of Oslo...
Oslo pays for ‘good press’ in ‘Monocle’
The City of Oslo has shelled out nearly NOK 2 million (USD 308,000) for what amounts to an advertising supplement in the trendy international...
Oslo’s population predicted to boom
The population of Oslo is expected to grow by 34.3 percent or 208,000 residents over the next 20 years. It would take the capital's...
Squatters evicted from Oslo lot
Oslo police broke up the long-standing squatters' community of Brakkebygrenda in Gamlebyen on Wednesday morning, after members of the self-described "ecological urban living alternative"...
No strike after Oslo workers settle
Oslo municipal workers reached a wage agreement as expected on Tuesday morning, averting strike action across the capital. Unions had threatened action by 2,200...
Music banned in parts of Oslo
Police announced on Tuesday that buskers and street music would be banned during the day at Oslo's central train station and along the lower...
Christmas tree tradition to get the chop
The Oslo city council wants to end its decades-long tradition of providing Christmas trees to several European cities. The practice is becoming too expensive,...
Wolf sighted in Oslo’s Nordmarka
Wildlife authorities received three separate reports on Wednesday of a wolf seen in Nittedal, on the eastern side of Oslo's northern forest known as Nordmarka....
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