The views from a hilltop called Prekestolåsen on the Hurum peninsula south of Oslo are stunning, as they are from several other peaks in the area. Farmland surrounds the forested area known as Hurummarka, but more than four square...

UPDATED: Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide was quick to challenge a new 12.5 percent tariff imposed last week by US President Donald Trump on much of what the US imports from Norway. Eide claimed that Trump's reasoning behind...

COMMENTARY: Many in Oslo remember exactly where they were when the bomb went off on Friday afternoon, July 22, 2011. I had just taken a dear old friend visiting from California and her daughter on a tour of downtown,...

Norwegian government officials, Norway's king and queen and not least survivors of a right-wing extremist's deadly attacks on July 22, 2011 gathered once again on Wednesday. They don't want anyone to forget the terror that hit Norway 15 years...

UPDATED: At a time when rowing has become part of Norway's national identity, one of the Norwegian champions of the sport suddenly collapsed and died this week. Olaf Tufte, who'd even led a recent public session of simulated rowing...

Norway's football fever is finally down to normal, after the national team's best performance ever at this summer's World Cup. That hasn't warded off calls for Norway to host a World Cup itself some day, possibly in partnership with...

A major fire swept though an entire hillside neighbourhood in Drammen during the weekend, destroying more than 100 homes including the residence of the local fire chief. At least 400 people lost everything they owned, in what's being called...

Small gyrocopters flew low over Norway's famed Preikestolen (Pulpit Rock) last week, disturbing visitors, scaring others and angering tour guides. The gyrocopters were noisy and two of them reportedly held an elevation of only around 15 meters above people's...