Vipps offers deferred payment of bills
As the debate over Norwegians’ growing consumer debt rages on, Vipps launched a new offer for deferred payment of bills. The company believes the solution…
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The ministry Animal welfare asks the royal house to drop fur
The call from animal welfare organizations comes after it became known that Queen Elizabeth II did not buy new fur products. The memoirs of the…
Vinmonopolet with new solution
Tests out clicks and retrieves – Polet should have your goods ready within two hours. In June, Vinmonopolet started testing out a new service called Klikk…
New cold temperature record in Troms
At Bardufoss, it was measured minus 29 minus degree Celsius in the early hours to Sunday. Never before has it been this cold at the…
106 Vard employees lose their jobs in Brevik
The board of the Vard Group has decided that the yard in Brevik will be closed, and all 106 employees will lose their jobs. Employees…
Danger warning for snow in southern Norway – motorists are warned
Large amounts of snow are expected in Sørlandet on Sunday. The meteorologists have sent out yellow hazard warning and are asking drivers to drive carefully….
Nearly half of Norwegian students know about drug use in school
Forty-four percent of Norwegian students know about drug use during school hours, according to a new study from the organization, Actis. The study was conducted…
Bergen City Council will try out the basic income
The politicians in Bergen are ready to test out the basic income (borgerlønn), that secure citizens money, without the state demanding anything back. When and…
Airline passenger locked themself in the toilet
A Widerøe flight from Trondheim to Evenes had to land in Bodø because a passenger on board threw a tantrum and locked themself in the…
Controversial rapper for Palmesus
US rapper ASAP Rocky is ready for Palmesus (festival) in Kristiansand next summer. The festival made the announcement in a press release. The 31-year-old, who…
The care allowance scheme is to be expanded
KrF has had a breakthrough internally in the government to extend the care allowance scheme. Parents are now also entitled to care allowances after a…
Innovasjon Norge, DNB and Equinor among Norway’s most popular employers
Professionally active Norwegians looking for a new job would prefer to get a foot inside Innovasjon Norge (Innovation Norway), DNB or Equinor. The public sector…
Solberg does not share Macron’s view of NATO
Prime Minister Erna Solberg (Høyre/Conservative Party) writes on Twitter that she does not agree with Emmanuel Macron’s assessment of NATO, but believes the alliance has…
Norwegians want to spend close to NOK 100 billion on the Christmas trade
In total, Norwegians will spend NOK 97 billion for this year’s Christmas celebration. Only in December, each of us spends NOK 11,100 on Christmas food…
170,000 caught speeding last year
Most motorists who are caught for speeding have no excuse. This is according to the the Police after 170,000 were punished for speeding in 2018….
Go-Ahead and Mantena agree on a train maintenance agreement
British Go-Ahead, which will operate the Sørlandsbanen, has signed an agreement with state Mantena on the maintenance of the trains. The agreement is valid for…
NOK 245 billion in net revenue from the petroleum industry in 2020
The Norwegian State’s net cash flow from the petroleum industry in 2020 is estimated to about NOK 245 billion. The fields on the Norwegian continental…
Equinor sells its holdings in Texas for nearly $3 billion
Equinor has sold 63 percent of its stake in the Eagle Ford operating company to Repsol for $ 325 million – close to NOK 3…
Voltarol is to be prescribed
The Norwegian Medicines Agency has decided that the drug, Voltarol, should be prescribed, after new research shows a higher risk than expected for cardiovascular disease….
New pension scheme for seafarers adopted by Parliament
Parliament has adopted a new pension scheme for employees at sea. The scheme allows more seamen to be entitled to a pension. In the new…