Norway

Despite lower mortgage requirements in 2025, industry organisation Real Estate Norway has warned the property market could be headed towards a crisis.

Norway’s government wants to increase the language requirements for permanent residence and ensure more applicants pass the social studies exam. Here’s how you’ll be affected by the changes.

A proposal to raise the language requirements for permanent residence was submitted for consultation by the Norwegian Ministry of Justice on Friday.

The Norwegian krone slipped to a four-year low against the US dollar on Wednesday after a interest rate decision in the US.

Many dream of a white Christmas and idyllic snowy scenery over the holidays, but meteorologists have warned that large parts of Norway may be left disappointed with the weather.

Many foreigners living in Norway want to travel back to their home country to see family and friends over Christmas, but what if you are still waiting for a residency permit to be renewed?

Purchasing alcohol over Christmas in Norway takes some preparation and planning due to closures of stores and state-owned wine monopolies, with the sale of alcohol also prohibited on public holidays.

Armand, The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, the animated short Maybe Elephants, and the Palestinian-Norwegian documentary No Other Land were all shortlisted for Oscar nominations on Tuesday evening.

Freezing rain caused delays for travellers from Oslo Gardermoen Airport on Wednesday morning.

2025 promises to be a key year in Norway with new laws, tax changes, a new government on the cards, and much more.

British resident Alex Kronenberg feels wearing Norway's traditional "bunad" costume doesn't quite feel right. He explains how he explained how he launched a business to offer a compromise to other foreign residents and create a connection to Norway at the same time.

Taxi fares in Norway will be capped in towns and cities from January 1st, 2025. Here’s what passengers need to know about the new regulations.

Shadow home secretary calls for a rethink in relations with Beijing but Labour highlights events during Cameron’s premiershipAsked again about China, Starmer says:Our approach is the approach I’ve just set out.It’s important to engage. Of course, we have to challenge where we must, but it’s better to engage, to challenge, than to stay aside, as it […]

Norway's currency struggled throughout 2023 and 2024. Could brighter days be ahead as we enter the new year?

Head north, avoid light pollution and seek out high ground – how to plan to see the northern lightsThe northern lights lit up the skies across the UK and Europe several times this year, and experts are predicting 2025 will be a great year for spotting the often elusive light show.The dazzling natural phenomenon, also known as the aurora borealis, has been […]

Exclusive: Complaint says Equinor is unlawfully connected to Israel’s Delek Group, which has been flagged by UN human rights commissionerThe Norwegian oil company Equinor is being sued over alleged business links to the Israeli energy company Delek Group, which has been flagged by the UN high commissioner for human rights for operating in illegal […]

Recordings by biologist Heike Vester reveal how oil and gas exploration as well as cruises, fishing boats and even whale-watchers are adding to the din underwaterFrom the moment that the biologist Dr Heike Vester presses play, the sound of the static of the fjord fills the room. First comes the constant, steady rumbling of a boat engine. Then, every eight […]

Small Socialist Left party threatens to block budget if government becomes first to issue licences for deep-sea explorationThe Norwegian government has paused its plans to mine the deep sea in the Arctic, after pressure from a small leftwing party.The agreement was reached after the Socialist Left (SV) party said it would not support the government’s […]

Gjert Ingebrigtsen used to coach Jakob and his brothersHe ‘punched and kicked’ Jakob since he was a schoolboyJakob Ingebrigtsen’s father will stand trial next year on charges that include abusing the double Olympic ­champion and threatening to “beat ­him to death”.Ingebrigtsen, who won gold medals over 1500m in Tokyo and 5,000m in Paris, also […]

Apps and booklets are offering advice on how to build a bunker, stockpile food and live without electricity in case the worst happensGermany is developing an app to help people locate the nearest bunker in the event of attack. Sweden is distributing a 32-page pamphlet titled If Crisis or War Comes. Half a million Finns have already downloaded an emergency […]

Regional leaders meet after undersea telecoms cables severed, while Chinese ship remains at anchor nearbyThe Swedish prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, has said the Baltic sea is now a “high risk” zone as he met Nordic and Baltic leaders days after a suspected sabotage attack on undersea cables.The Swedish prime minister declined to speculate on who may […]

The award will be the biggest of its kind in Europe and aims to celebrate the work of an overlooked and underpaid profession facing an existential threat from AINorway is launching a new translation price that is one of the most highly endowed of its kind in Europe, in an attempt to boost a “partly invisible” and often poorly paid profession […]

Strike with US-made missiles has prompted fears of Russian reprisal that would broaden the scope of a frontlineA Ukrainian strike using American-made missiles to hit targets deep inside Russia using American-made weaponry, has prompted renewed fears of reprisal through “hybrid warfare” – a chaotic tool of conflict that muddies borders and broadens the […]

Marius Borg Holby, detained in August after an incident at a woman’s apartment in Oslo, was arrested on Monday eveningThe 27-year-old son of the Norwegian crown princess, Mette-Marit, has been arrested on suspicion of rape, according to police.Police said in a statement that Marius Borg Høiby, who was born from a relationship prior to Mette-Marit’s […]

Draft resolution for UN general assembly seeks to protect the aid agency and allow it to keep functioning in GazaNorway is to seek an international court of justice (ICJ) advisory opinion condemning the Israeli government for ending cooperation with the UN Palestinian relief agency Unrwa.The Israeli Knesset passed two bills last month banning Unrwa from […]

Most signs suggest Norwegian property prices will continue to rise in 2025, leaving prospective homebuyers eager to get on the ladder sooner rather than later.

Parliament votes to express ‘deepest regret’ over more than a century of ‘Norwegianisation’ of minoritiesThe Norwegian parliament has apologised unreservedly to minority groups and Indigenous people for more than a century of historical injustices committed against them as part of its “Norwegianisation” policy.The forced assimilation policy – […]

Norway lags behind other Nordic countries in government action to attract highly skilled foreign workers, the heads of the business development arms in Oslo and Trondheim have told The Local.

Director sets out to unmask the secret underwater agent known as Hvaldimir in new documentary When a white whale, mysteriously kitted out with covert surveillance equipment, was first spotted in icy waters around Norway five years ago it seemed like an improbable chapter from a spy thriller. But working out the true identity and secret objectives of this […]

Christian Åslund was shocked at the difference between what he saw in 2002 and what confronted him this summer Standing in blinding sunlight on an archipelago above the Arctic Circle, the photographer Christian Åslund looked in shock at a glacier he had last visited in 2002. It had almost completely disappeared.Two decades ago Greenpeace asked Åslund to […]