17 Oct, 2018
Norway’s national painting is the star of the last exhibit to run in current National Gallery building M. Michael Brady Asker, Norway The National Gallery of Norway’s ongoing finale exhibition is “Infinite Landscapes,” a...
16 Oct, 2018
Proposed budget cuts taxes, increases funds to humanitarian aid Norwegian Ministry of Finance “The Norwegian economy is doing well. Businesses are investing more and employment is rising throughout the country. We are using the...
15 Oct, 2018
Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad, fighters of war-time sexual violence, share 2018 award Nobel Peace Prize Oslo The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2018 to Denis Mukwege...
4 Oct, 2018
Sensors on unmanned submarines could give researchers more data Idun Haugan NTNU Gemini An estimated three million shipwrecks lie in seabed graveyards around the world—with as many as 1,000 of them around Svalbard. “The...
1 Oct, 2018
The warming Arctic is a serious threat to the Norwegian city of Longyearbyen M. Michael Brady Asker, Norway Longyearbyen, the largest community and the administrative center of Svalbard, the Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic...
1 Oct, 2018
Luxury cruise line opens the Arctic to you—if you have 55 days and $60,000 Thomas Nilsen The Barents Observer Luxury cruise ships will sail next summer from Nome, Alaska, to Tromsø, Norway, via the...
19 Sep, 2018
Locals and sightseers clash when cruise ship passengers flood Honnigsvåg’s historical church—which is still in use The Local Cruise ship tourists crowded into a funeral in a Norwegian town in August, traipsing around the...
18 Sep, 2018
Controversial artist’s sculpture house will not be built next to Munch’s Oslo studio The Local Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard’s battle to build his “death house” near the site of Edvard Munch’s Oslo studio has...
17 Sep, 2018
Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania increasingly think of themselves as Nordic rather than Eastern European M. Michael Brady Asker, Norway In the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, to the east across the Baltic...
5 Sep, 2018
Norway’s highest mountain gets the minute-by-minute treatment from NRK The Local They’ve done a railway journey, a ferry trip, and the reindeer migration. They’ve burnt a fire and knitted a sweater in real time....
Rosenborg is double trouble again
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11 Dec, 2018
Wintertime magic exploring the fjords
11 Dec, 2018
11 Dec, 2018
A trans-Atlantic business bridge
11 Dec, 2018
Rosenborg is double trouble again
11 Dec, 2018
Maritime historian releases new editions
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