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Stave church moves back home

A 122-year-old copy of a Norwegian stave church that was moved to the US from where it was built in Orkanger, outside Trondheim, is being...

Air fares soared in second quarter

Travelers were met with airline ticket prices that, on average, were 10 percent higher during the second quarter of this year than in the...

Norway promoted for electric car tourism

After more than 60 electric cars carrying more than 100 passengers made it to the relatively remote mountain village of Geiranger for a festival last...

New disaster film packs cinemas

UPDATED: Oslo's large Kino Victoria cinema was packed Sunday night as audiences continued to stream into the weekend's premiere showings of an eerily realistic...

Weak krone boosted hotel business

With the exception of Stavanger, hard hit by the dive in oil prices, hotels in many Norwegian cities could report a hot summer season with...

Salvaging tones at a burned museum

Employees of the Ringve Museum were sifting through the rubble Tuesday morning of the historic building that's been Norway's premier showplace for centuries of art...

Tourist trouble in the mountains

Heavy snow in the mountains of southern Norway is still causing trouble for hotel- and hytte owners because it's hindering access and preventing hiking and biking on...

Scenic cemeteries are the new parks

Despite recent controversy over tourists found camping in some of Norway's scenic graveyards, residents themselves are increasingly using local well-tended cemeteries as an alternative to parks. The resting places of...

Protests fly over ‘wild camping’

Norwegians are calling it "wild camping" this summer, to describe cases where tourists park their motor homes or set up tents in places where they can...

Tourists exploit campgrounds

Campground owners along the scenic highway Atlanterhavsveien on Norway's northwest coast are frustrated by the numbers of tourists driving expensive motor homes who pull in, use their facilities...

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