Kyle Alessandro, an 18-year-old high school student from Steinkjer in Trøndelag, won not only the international jury's vote at Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK)'s Eurovision qualifier during the weekend, but also the popular vote.

Jan 15, 2025 · NEWS ANALYSIS: From its strategic Arctic areas in the far north, to its border to Russia in northeastern Finnmark and vast offshore territory in the west and south: Norway is battening down the hatches. New defense and preparedness plans “will affect every one of us,” declared Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre while rolling out the […]

Jan 10, 2025 · Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre hosted a closed-door summit with eight leaders of Norway’s biggest companies this week, as they all braced for the next four years. Støre’s government has already formed a five-point plan for dealing with Donald J Trump after he once again becomes the US president. Trump was also a major […]

Feb 4, 2025 · UPDATED: Top government officials, professors, Members of Parliament and foreign policy experts were among Norwegians reacting with disbelief and disgust to US President Donald Trump's claim that Ukraine started the war with Russia.

21 hours ago · NEWS ANALYSIS: Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre is grappling with issues he and most other leaders around Europe never thought they’d face. At issue is whether they should still prioritize democracy and freedom or relations with the US, which long was viewed as the guarantor of both, but not since Donald Trump took over […]

Feb 26, 2025 · The body of a British ice climber who got caught in an avalanche late last week was finally recovered and brought down from Gaustatoppen by emergency crews on Tuesday. Bad weather and treacherous conditions had frustrated their efforts since Friday. The dead climber’s injured companion, also British, had been rescued Friday night and flown to […]

Jan 31, 2024 · Northern- and Southern Norway were cut off from each other Wednesday evening, after yet another extreme storm slammed into the central portions of the country. The E6 highway that runs from the border to Sweden in the south to the border to Russia in the far north was closed over the mountains of Saltfjellet in […]

2 days ago · No less than 47 prominent Norwegian economists, analysts and professors are calling on Parliament and the government to use Norway’s role as an “economic super power” and dramatically increase aid to Ukraine.The economists have also given top politicians an economic green-light to do so, claiming that spending limits placed on the country’s huge sovereign wealth fund (known as the Oil ...

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Feb 20, 2025 · Nearly 90 percent of all new car sales in Norway involved electic cars last year, and the numbers kept rising after New Year. Electric cars’ market share continues to be way ahead of that in most other countries. Even though tax- and toll incentives for so-called el-bil purchases have declined in Norway, both private and […]