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No plans to take down turbines
A majority of Trøndelag residents want to let controversial wind turbines in the Fosen area keep operating, but only if the rights of Sami reindeer herders in the area are respected. That's unlikely, leaving the controversy literally up in...
Prosecutors want to reopen Baneheia case
State prosecutors have formally sought, as expected, a reopening of the case against Jan Helge Andersen, who recently emerged as the sole defendant in the rapes and murders of two little girls at Baneheia in Kristiansand in May 2000. They...
Interest rates keep rising in the worst and the best of times
NEWS ANALYSIS/UPDATED: The rich are getting richer and the poor poorer in Norway, where another rise in interest rates is meant to curb inflation. The higher rates will also raise household costs for many already struggling with big bills, at...
Government leaders drop TikTok and Telegram
Norway's government ministers, state secretaries and their political advisers have all been told to remove the apps TikTok and Telegram from their government-issued telephones and tablets. The order comes after an evaluation by the national security authority NSM (Nasjonal...
Energy issues dominate agendas
Energy prices and supplies have continued to dominate the agendas at some very demonstrative and political meetings lately. The concerns and arguments that arise often center on whether Norway is sending enough or too much of its resources abroad.
Everyone...
High electricity bills may close museums
Fully two-thirds of Norway's museums are struggling with electricity bills that are so high they may need to close during part of the winter. Among them is the Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo, which is privately owned and thus lacks...
Still no cure for doctors’ funding
Health Minister Ingvild Kjerkol has rolled out what she calls an "historic" boost in funding for Norway's hard-pressed primary care physicians in the public sector. They weren't impressed, however, and the search for a better cure continues.
Kjerkol, who's also...
Norway slips again on UN’s happiness report
A new UN report confirms that money can't always buy happiness: Even though Norway is among the wealthiest countries in the world, its people aren't as happy as they were in earlier years, and experts suspect a rise in...
Man charged with murder and dismembering corpse
A Norwegian man in his 50s from Agder has been arrested and charged with murering his domestic partner, cutting up her corpse and storing it in a freezer at their remote farm in Värmland in Sweden. He has confessed...
Haaland injured, can’t play for Norway
The head coach of Norway's national men's football team was mighty unhappy on Tuesday, after being told that his star player won't be able to take part in two upcoming qualifiers for the next European Championships. Erling Braut Haaland...
Finance minister battling illness
Norwegian Finance Minister Trygve Slagsvold Vedum has been battling more than just budgets, rising prices and political opponents lately. While addressing more than 300 delegates at his Center Party's annual meeting on Friday, Vedum revealed he'd been diagnosed with...
Market turbulence fuels uncertainty
It was another turbulent day on the Oslo Stock Exchange and most others around the world, as new economic uncertainty grips the markets. The price of Norway's North Sea crude oil fell again and its currency remains weak, boosting...
Jailed cop’s release sparks debate
Questions have been raised this week over how a police officer who was sentenced to 21 years in jail for corruption could suddenly be released, at least temporarily, because he was "unfit for imprisonment." Speculation is flying that Eirik...
Railroad boss quits after Follobanen scandal, and with 10 months’ pay
At least one head has rolled at Norway's troubled train and railroad system, after the boss of railroad unit Bane NOR resigned with immediate effect on Tuesday. Gorm Frimannslund had been under fire for months, mostly because of huge...
Short film ‘losers’ still feel like they won
A short film from Norway that was nominated for an Oscar didn't win, but that didn't dampen the spirits of its producers and actors who traveled to Hollywood last weekend. They're still celebrating the fact they were nominated.
"We can...
Future uncertain for popular ‘Flytoget,’ the Airport Express Train
UPDATED: Norway's first high-speed train line has been running to and from the country's gateway airport, Oslo Gardermoen, since it opened in 1998. Now its future is uncertain, a victim of politics and back-room pressure from labour organizations despite...
Four jailed after subway stabbing
Four young men were ordered held in jail on Monday, charged in the stabbing of a 16-year-old boy on board the Oslo metro (T-banen) Saturday evening. The stabbing shocked fellow passengers, some of whom are credited with saving the...
Snowstorm strangles Southern Norway
Last week it was Northern- and Central Norway that were clobbered by heavy snow. This week it's most of Southern Norway, especially the Oslo metropolitan area. Weather forecasters had warned that traffic problems could occur, and that proved to...
Questions swirl over pipeline sabotage
International news reports that a mysterious yacht sailing from Rostock may be behind the suspected sabotage of Russian pipelines in the Baltic last fall have won media attention in Norway. The reports are apparently viewed as more credible than...
Støre and his party now in ‘deep crisis’
NEWS ANALYSIS: Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre walked into the proverbial lion's den on Thursday, when he addressed the Sami Parliament in Karasjok just a week after facing angry Sami demonstrators in Oslo. Støre had also just learned that...
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