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Building firms fined for price-fixing

State competition authorities have hit two large construction firms with heavy fines after some employees were found to have set prices on road-building projects....

Two killed in bus-car crash

Two persons were killed and two injured when a bus collided with a car on the E16 highway near Bolstad in Hordaland County, western...

Roads and rails under water again

The unrelenting rains of the summer of 2011 continue to flood and wash away local roads and a major highway in southern Norway, as...

Norway’s roads fail UN standards

Many of Norway's main highways are not up to standards set by UN agreements to which the country is party. Newspaper Aftenposten reports that many...

Fire closes fjord tunnel again

The long tunnel under the Oslo Fjord that links Østfold to Hurum was likely to remain closed for at least two weeks, after another...

Much more traffic chaos expected

Tens of thousands of Oslo-area train passengers once again had to spend hours trying to get to their destinations on Wednesday. A new report...

Death and scandal over bad roads

Norway's notoriously inadequate road system has now left transport officials fending off claims of death and scandal. As a court case opened last week...

Road firms face collusion charges

Top politicians and state transportation officials were claiming they were shocked and felt cheated, after Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) aired a lengthy report on the...

Fewer caught in speed traps

Fewer speedsters are being snared by the automatic traffic control (ATC) cameras that line Norwegian roads. Debate continues over whether to remove the cameras or...

Roads will continue to deteriorate

Despite government promises to improve Norway's sub-standard highway system, fully a third of the country's roads are in "poor" or "extremely poor" condition. State...
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