800,000 Norwegians may have to pay arrears
The tax report is ready. 2.9 million Norwegians are likely get money back, while 800,000 probably have to pay arrears. This was shown in a…
2018
10 more metoo warnings in Labour in 2018
10 more metoo warnings in Labour in 2018 The Norwegian Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet) received and dealt with another ten notices of sexual harassment last year….
Solid growth in membership for FRP
The number of members in the Progress Party grew to 17,968 in 2018. This is over 3,300 compared to the previous year. Not since 2013,…
New record year for Norwegian hotels
Norwegian hotels accrued 23.7 million overnight stays last year, which is a new record. Foreign guests, especially from the United States, contributed to the increase….
Nav reported 968 persons for social security fraud in 2018
Last year, 968 people were notified by Nav for social security fraud totaling NOK 166 million. 905 of the cases reported concerned receiving fraudulent unemployment…
Drought resulted the worst grain harvest for almost 50 years
The grain harvest after the summer of 2018 was halved from the previous year. We have to go all the way back to 1969 to…
The poorest soda sale in ten years in 2018
In 2018, 460 million liters of soda were sold, showing figures from the Brewery and Beverage Association. It’s the lowest sales in ten years. The…
Unemployment fell to 3.8% in November
Unemployment fell to 3.8% in Norway in November Unemployment in Norway fell to 3.8% in November compared to August, according to recent figures from Statistics…
Strong increase in residential fires in 2018
Housing fires increased by 31% from 2017 to 2018 according to figures from the alarm company, Verisure. Most house fires were registered in May last…
2018 was a record year for Norwegian timber
About 10.8 million cubic meters of timber were sold for industrial purposes last year. That is 303,000 cubic meters more than the year before and…
Record number obtained apprenticeship places in 2018
At the end of last year, 74 per cent of the applicants had obtained approved apprentice contracts. This is the highest proportion recorded since the…
Unusual amounts of dead cod in Inner Oslofjord this past December
In December, more than 100 kilos of dead cod fish were trawled up in several places in the Inner Oslo Fjord. Scientists believe a lack…
36 people died at work last year
A total of 36 people died while at work last year, according to a preliminary overview FriFagbevegelse has prepared. All who died were men and…
Norwegian exports nearly 1 Trillion in 2018
Norwegian exports soared to nearly NOK 1 Trillion in 2018 Norwegian foreign trade increased a lot and ended at NOK 999.8 billion in 2018. Revenues…
39 people died in fires in 2018
A total of 39 people lost their lives in fires in Norway in 2018. Eight of these died in December, which was the month with…
Norwegian seafood exports total NOK 99 billion in 2018
Norway has exported 2.7 million tonnes of seafood to reach a new record of NOK 99 billion in 2018. This represents a volume increase of…
Norwegian reports record high year-end traffic figures: Carried over 37 million passengers in 2018
Norwegian reported its highest ever passenger figures in a single year with more than 37 million passengers and a load factor of 86 per cent…
These were the top stories of 2018
These were the top stories of 2018 in Norway For the second consecutive year, Donald Trump was the most talked about phenomenon in Norwegian media…
Over 12,000 people left the Church last year
Every month last year, on average, more than 1,000 people resigned from the Norwegian Church, but for the Church the tendency is positive. The number…
Many people died in plane crashes last year
A total of 556 people lost their lives in 15 accidents in commercial air traffic in the world last year. That is more than in…