The Children, Equality and Social Inclusion Ministry circulated a bill that will clarify the rights of parental leave.

In four years, the proportion of foreigners in Norwegian prisons has increased by over ten percent. Those coming from three European countries make the largest group.

Norwegian Public Health Institute estimates about 250 more will be infected with HIV in Norway this year.

SSB (Statistics Norway) presented an optimistic forecasts for Norwegian Economy in 2011.

The outgoing government proposes for next year to increase funding to prevent and reduce poverty among families receiving social assistance.

Internal threats and power struggle has led to the Norwegian Pegida movement divided two days after the first march, writes TV2.

Norwegian government appointed a committee to study and propose specific measures to strengthen the fundamental rights of people with disabilities.

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.