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Norwegian air space over Oslo and the neighbouring region of Romerike was partially closing on Tuesday, after news broke of a high-level meeting in Norway’s capital aimed at ending the war in Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was flying in once again, to meet with the leaders of Norway and Finland and…
Train service in southern Norway was getting back to normal during the weekend, after locomotive engineers and state train operator Vy agreed on a new labour pact. They’d been ordered into mandatory arbitration on Friday. State mediator Mats Ruland could announce settlement of the nearly month-long strike after talks…
Reaction was swift and furious after a state commission handed over its proposals on Thursday for changes in the ethical framework and management of Norway’s huge sovereign wealth fund, known as the Oil Fund. The commission proposed investing in some companies tied to nuclear weapons, and that led to verbal blasts…
Five Norwegians have been charged in an alleged swindle of NATO that’s been unraveling around Europe this week. Those arrested in Bergen are suspected of over-billing for work done on NATO vessels in Norwegian harbours between 2021 and 2025. The suspects arrested at their homes in the Bergen area on Wednesday were…
Norwegian football players are on a roll. Another of the country’s teams good enough to be playing in the Champions’ League, Bodø/Glimt, beat another top German team, just a day after Stavanger’s Vikings did the same. Football commentators were as happily stunned as fans in the stands, after Bodø/Glimt beat Borussia…
Oslo’s recently renovated Restaurant Schrøder has won lots of attention over the years, not least as the hangout for the main character in Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesbø’s books. This week it grabbed media attention for offering bear meat on its menu, and that’s something animal rights activists couldn’t swallow…
Norway is known for “caring” for those sentenced to prison instead of simply punishing them. A new prison in downtown Oslo will feature not only individual cells. They’ll all be equipped with private toilets and showers. The new prison will replace the old Oslo Prison known as Botsen that closed in June after 175 years
A new public health advisory council in Norway is calling for higher taxes and new age limits on the purchase of tobacco products, plus a ban on tax-free sales of tobacco and nicotine products at Norwegian airports. Those are just some of the council’s proposed restrictions to cut back on nicotine use, especially…