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A head-on collision involving at least two cars on Wednesday closed an important highway connecting Northern- and Southern Norway. There was a massive emergency response to the fatal accident that left one person dead and three others seriously injured. The crash occurred on the main north-south E6 highway close to the Dovregubbens hall restaurant and […]
The views from a hilltop called Prekestolåsen on the Hurum peninsula south of Oslo are stunning, as they are from several other peaks in the area. Farmland surrounds the forested area known as Hurummarka, but more than four square kilometers of it is now targeted as the site of a new explosives plant that pits […]
UPDATED: Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide was quick to challenge a new 12.5 percent tariff imposed last week by US President Donald Trump on much of what the US imports from Norway. Eide claimed that Trump’s reasoning behind the tariff is simply wrong, that “we strongly disagree” with Trump’s decision to impose it, and […]
COMMENTARY: Many in Oslo remember exactly where they were when the bomb went off on Friday afternoon, July 22, 2011. I had just taken a dear old friend visiting from California and her daughter on a tour of downtown, and we were walking from Parliament to the Akershus Fortress when the sudden deafening blast shook […]
Norwegian government officials, Norway’s king and queen and not least survivors of a right-wing extremist’s deadly attacks on July 22, 2011 gathered once again on Wednesday. They don’t want anyone to forget the terror that hit Norway 15 years ago, especially following a documented increase in hatred and extremists’ threats. Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre […]
UPDATED: At a time when rowing has become part of Norway’s national identity, one of the Norwegian champions of the sport suddenly collapsed and died this week. Olaf Tufte, who’d even led a recent public session of simulated rowing in Oslo to cheer on the national football team, was rushed to hospital but died on […]
They’re not calling it a criminal investigation, but police in Drammen confirm they now have a suspect in their probe of a huge fire over the weekend that’s left hundreds of people homeless. The fire itself is now under control, after burning for nearly four days and destroying 116 residences. The man formally suspected of […]
Norway’s football fever is finally down to normal, after the national team’s best performance ever at this summer’s World Cup. That hasn’t warded off calls for Norway to host a World Cup itself some day, possibly in partnership with Sweden and Denmark, but now even the leader of the country’s football federation thinks that’s “unrealistic.” […]
The late Norwegian author Sigrid Undset won many prizes and honours in her lifetime, not least the Nobel Prize for literature in 1928. Now the bishop of Oslo has launched a process that he hopes will make her a saint in the Catholic Church. Undset, best known for her Nobel-winning trilogy Kristin Lavransdatter, lived a […]
He’s been at the forefront of battling climate change and environmental damage, but now Arild Hermstad is fighting for his own life. The 59-year-old leader of Norway’s Greens Party was diagnosed with acute leukemia just before Parliament recessed for the summer. “We have professional, publicly financed health care, and the treatment I’m getting is tops […]
