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Election can affect future of new E18 highway in Oslo

Norway's national automobile federation NAF, with 500,000 members, was sounding the alarm before Monday's elections, worrying that too many parties were riding an "environmental populistic...

Critics blast plans for Ringerike rail

It didn't take long for environmental activists, who normally hail new railway projects, to bash the government's recently announced plans to improve the train...

Main mountain highway’s tunnel set to reopen

The Gudvanga Tunnel on the main E16 highway connecting Oslo and Bergen is expected to reopen to ordinary traffic early next week. It was...

Highway reopens after rockslide

Norway is vulnerable to rock- and earthslides crashing down steep mountainsides and onto highways. Another one occurred Monday evening, blocking the main E39 highway that runs along...

Latest tunnel fire rang new alarms

Another fire inside one of Norway's many tunnels that connect highways all over the country has raised new alarm over their safety standards. The state...

Three killed as traffic deaths decline

Three people were killed in a head-on collision on one of Norway's two-lane mountain highways during the night. The fatal crash occurred as the...

Bus accident closed Trollstigen

UPDATED: It happened again on Thursday: A tour bus driver failed to negotiate one of the sharp hairpin turns on Norway's popular County Road...

Minister tackles traffic in Oslo

Transport Minister Kjetil Solvik-Olsen wants to keep traffic flowing in Oslo, also after the summer holidays end and commuters return. He's gearing to offer more...

Commuters heeded congestion warnings

State highway and city authorities had been warning for months of massive traffic congestion in Oslo this week, as work began on improvements to...

‘January in June’ stranded drivers

"It was incredible to wake up to a full snowstorm in June," Sigurd Bjåen of Hovden, in the mountains of southern Norway, exclaimed on...
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