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Snow has covered the Treningsbakken (training ground) at Kvitfjell ski resort, so it can now be used again.
Two Norwegian men in their 20s have been in custody in western Germany since June, after being stopped on their way from Antwerp in Belgium with 67 kilos of heroin. The…
The Norwegian government is planning to reintroduce the air passenger tax and normal VAT rates from November 1.
8 percent of all people between the ages of 15 and 74 said in July that they had been exposed to financial fraud during the past year. Working alone increases the risk…
Anders Mol and Christian Sørum won European Championship gold in sand volleyball on Sunday after a 2-0 victory in sets in the final. The Norwegian star duo won 21-19 in…
Despite a profit of more than NOK 1 billion in the first half of this year, Sparebanken 1 Nord-Norge will halve the number of branches in Northern Norway. This move has…
Only 17 percent of those surveyed by the Norwegian Corona Monitor say that they will fly domestically for the rest of 2020. On the other hand, only 8 percent plan to…
The fire brigade throughout southern and eastern Norway has been busy putting out major and minor fires in nature on Saturday. Forest fire danger has been applied in the…
The number of calls to the Church’s SOS telephone about suicide has doubled since March. Now they hope that the extra support they received earlier this year will be…
A mosque in Trondheim will be closed for the time being while COVID-19 infection tracing takes place. The reason is that someone who has tested positive for COVID-19,…
Norway should relocate 1,500 children and families with children from Greece over two years, according to the Norwegian Organization for Asylum Seekers. On Thursday,…
The City Council of Bergen has, on the advice of FHI, chosen to extend the infection control measures until the coming Tuesday, 22nd September. On Wednesday morning, the…
Half a year after the government’s order, the 1,000 emergency respirators that were to go to the hospitals have still not been delivered. The respirators, which have a…
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic now raging in a number of European countries, assistant health director Espen Nakstad, on Tuesday, had an optimistic message for the people…
Information about over 700 Norwegians, among them a number of Norwegian leaders, is stored in the database of a Chinese security company, writes Dagbladet. The company…
SAS did not agree with the pilots on a solution for temporary and permanent cuts in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. Thus, the pilots with the least flying hours in the…
One man has been charged with attempted murder, and another with complicity in bodily injury, after an 18-year-old was shot in the leg at Holmlia center in 2018. The…
In 2019, Norwegian fighter aircraft identified 83 Russian aircrafts off the Norwegian coast. In 2020, the number has been exceeded already in September, reports…
500,499 jobseekers have received support from NAV since week 11, when Norway implemented a number of corona measures. Figures for weeks 11 to 37 have been observed from…
Norway has now surpassed Sweden when it comes to the rate at which COVID-19 is spreading. Norway has 23.9 infected people per 100,000 inhabitants, while Sweden has 23.…
A 29-year-old man accused of aggravated sexual assault against two underage girls in Trysil has been arrested in Amsterdam after a year on the run. According to…
In 2019, a small increase in antibiotic use in Norway was registered, but the numbers are still low, a new report shows. The incidences of antibiotic resistance in 2019…
Several youth political parties believe that Norway must contribute more to help the people from the Moria refugee camp in Greece. On Friday morning, they demonstrated…
A new study from the University of Bergen and FHI shows that more than half break the quarantine rules. The elderly break the rules the most. In the survey, 1,704 people…
Two of the men accused of having tricked the top manager in Edison Norway into paying them around NOK 150 million can be extradited from Israel to Norway, an Israeli…
Prime Minister Erna Solberg (H) asks people to follow the infection control advice and says that the outbreaks that occur, mainly happen when the advice is not followed.…
“Many of those who have been infected in local outbreaks in recent weeks have been exposed to hostility. This must end”, says Minister of Health Bent Høie (H). “Many of…
The government is starting to bring families with children, out of Greece, after the fire in the Moria camp. 50 asylum seekers must be picked up, confirms Prime Minister…
PST has arrested a Norwegian in his 60s in Skien at the request of French police, who is believed to be linked to a terrorist attack in Paris in 1982. “Today we have…
Equinor enters into an agreement with the companies Jera and J-Power on cooperation to establish offshore wind projects in Japan. “The three companies will work together…
The air quality was better than in several years last year, and there were no overshooting of the limit values for particulate matter or nitrogen dioxide. There were…