The Norwegian women’s handball team is at the center of a clothing controversy. Their decision to wear shorts instead of the officially prescribed bikini bottoms…
In a disturbing trend, illegal fishing appears to be increasing nationwide. Despite stricter recreational fishing laws coming into effect this year, and fewer tourists flocking…
It is now a decade since the horrific terrorist attacks of July 22, 2011. A single culprit murdered 77 people (mostly teenagers) by methodically setting…
To ban, or not to ban – that is the question that politicians nationwide have been asking in the past few months as pavements and…
Little more than a year after securing government support, when it was on the brink of bankruptcy, Norwegian Air Shuttle is in potential trouble after…
From June 14, Wizz Air no longer flies domestically within Norway, less than 8 months since its operations here began. The low-cost Hungarian carrier has…
Norway will head to the polls this September as Prime Minister Erna Solberg seeks another term in office. Her center-right government, in power for 8…
There is, perhaps, no more basic or important right than the right to make decisions about one’s own life. However, for a small but rising…
It is over two decades since the “kontantstøtte” (cash support benefit scheme) was first introduced in Norway. What was once seen as a way to…
Figures released in mid-May by the National Institute for Public Health (FHI) have highlighted the dire crisis facing some Pakistani-Norwegians. Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) first highlighted…
Since late November 2020, the Norwegian government has introduced some form of hotel quarantine for all those entering the country from abroad. Originally envisioned to…
For the second year running, the people of Norway will have to make do and celebrate Norway’s favorite day with restrictions, infection control measures, and…
Statistics Norway (SSB) has released its latest annual findings, for 2019, on child poverty in Norway. Some 11.7% of all children, in Norway, now live…
Since the coronavirus pandemic began, many of us have been daydreaming about our next cheap holiday. Erlend Ness, however, did more than just armchair dreaming….
Too often ridiculed as being more interested in TikTok than today’s events, the youth of Norway are seeing a once bright future slowly fade away…
The middle of a worldwide pandemic, with the aviation and tourism industries in ruins, would not, perhaps, seem the best time to launch a new…
It is not often that a sitting Prime Minister, in Norway, is in trouble with the police. That is exactly what has happened with PM…
Easter is a holiday that Norwegians look forward to with relish. More than just a religious holiday, it can involve one final ski for the…
When news broke, last week, that Prime Minister Erna Solberg had broken local and national corona measures, the Norwegian police acted as fast as the…
In a week where new lockdown measures were reintroduced in Oslo and the vaccination rollout has hit hurdles, there was a need for a sense…
