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Strong winds, snow closed key mountain highways

State highway officials were forced to close some key highways over the mountains of Southern Norway on Sunday, and two of them remained closed on...

Transport projects get ‘historic’ boost

Train service in Norway is now on track to receive its biggest funding boost and expansion since the country's popular Bergen-Oslo line was launched more than...

Hazards abound as roads turned to ice

Police in nearly all the counties of southern and central Norway were posting warnings Thursday morning that roads and highways were so slippery that...

Freezing rain created hazardous roads

Rain falling on frozen asphalt made roads slippery and hazardous all over the country on Tuesday, and that was blamed for a series of...

New storms pound the west and north

Western and Northern Norway were being battered once again on Friday by storms that closed roads, cancelled ferries and resulted in several accidents. Mountain roads...

Extremely slippery roads snarled traffic

A change in the weather led to what Norwegians dread most when out driving: rain that freezes when it hits the asphalt. Cars, trucks...

First major snow caused problems

Oslo got off easy, but wide areas of Southern Norway struggled over the weekend to deal with the first major snowstorm of the season....

Motorists warned as the first snow falls

The first significant snow of the season fell around southern- and southeastern Norway over the weekend and on Monday, leading to some slippery roads...

Mountain highway reopened Saturday

UPDATED: Geologists gave Norway's state highway department a green light to start clearing the E16 highway between Voss and Gudvangen on Thursday, and it reopened on...

E16 reopened, new highway planned

State emergency road crews managed to reopen a key portion of Norway's E16 highway on Sunday afternoon, less than a week after it was buried by...
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