The story of the kidnapped Norwegian citizen Ole Johan Grimsgaard-Ofstad has started to unfold.

Norwegian Refugee Council(NRC) responds strongly to the Government’s proposal to spend more money on military operations in Afghanistan, while aid funding in real terms reduced.

Marit Larsen, Datarock and Casiokids are just some of the Norwegian acts scheduled to perform at the world’s largest industry festival in Austin, TX, March 11-20, 2011.

The proposed amendments to the Tobacco Act would prohibit both snuff and smoking from elementary and secondary schools.

Police Directorate sharpens weapon routines after a patrol caught unarmed during the triple murder at a bus in Årdal. From now on, all police vehicles are to be equipped with weapons.

Bomb panic leads evacuation of the American Embassy in Oslo, the Norwegian royal palace and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs due to a fake bomb package which was forgotten under a vehicle used for a security drill by the embassy.

American satirical late night television program Colbert Report featured the butter shortage in Norway in the last episode on Tuesday.

This is primarily an important issue of principle for Norwegian export interests in a long-term perspective, states the Norwegian minister for fisheries and coastal affairs, Lisbeth Berg-Hansen.

People from 52 nations were trafficked to Norway last year, according to the National Police Directorate.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary summons the ambassadors from Norway and the other four Nordic countries following a joint Nordic letter with concerns about the political development and the corona situation in Hungary, reports the Ritzau news agency and the newspaper Politiken. Over a month after the populist, authoritarian Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor […]

Prison conditions of 22 July terrorist Anders Behring Breivik in Skien prison can lead to isolation damage, says civil ombudsman in a new report.

Youths on the west side of Oslo drink more alcohol than youth in the east. But the risk for alcohol problems is greater in the east, a new study shows.

Foreign Minister Børge Brende will be in Geneva on 30 September for meetings with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO).

Standing on rapidly melting polar ice on his trip to Norway, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called the world for urgent measures against climate change to protect the planet for future generations.

Government Pension Fund Global, commonly known as Oil Fund, has earned 1.35 billion NOK from its Nintendo shares since the mobile game Pokemon Go was launched.

Recent analysis by online home rental company Spotahome has revealed, Norway’s capital, Oslo (6.61) is the second healthiest city out of 89 global cities. Spotahome has standardised the latest city and country-level data available for key health categories including average gym rating, life expectancy at birth, adult obesity, work-life balance and air and water quality […]

794 asylum seekers applied to Norway last month this year. Three out of ten have fled from Eritrea.

Aker Seafoods reports of good catches and better efficiency than previous years in its second quarter results , but is still not completely satisfied.

Muslims in Norway will be able to celebrate the holiday with local Christmas food this year, after a Norwegian meat producer introduces the country’s first halal reindeer meat.