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Get well wishes were pouring in for Norway’s 89-year-old King Harald V on Monday, after the Royal Palace disclosed Sunday evening that his health had worsened during the weekend. The monarch has been in and out of the hospital in recent years, and now he’s being treated for anemia and another infection, this time in […]

Airline passengers could breathe a sigh of relief on Monday after Norwegian air traffic controllers called off the strike they’d launched just before the weekend. Their labour organization came to terms with state aviation agency Avinor Monday afternoon, after nearly six hours of renewed negotiations. Avinor, represented by employers’ organization Spekter, and the air traffic […]

Norway’s gateway airport, Oslo Gardermoen, was shut down Sunday morning after Norwegian air traffic controllers launched a strike just before the weekend. All flights were cancelled for at least five hours and only a limited number of departures and arrivals would be allowed later in the day. The strike was also seriously affecting air travel […]

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 […]