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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 in Oslo to cheer on the national football team, was rushed to hospital but died on Tuesday []
They’re not calling it a criminal investigation, but police in Drammen confirm they now have a suspect in their probe of a huge fire over the weekend that’s left hundreds of people homeless. The fire itself is now under control, after burning for nearly four days and destroying 116 residences. The man formally suspected of []
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 Sweden and Denmark, but now even the leader of the country’s football federation thinks that’s “unrealistic.” []
The late Norwegian author Sigrid Undset won many prizes and honours in her lifetime, not least the Nobel Prize for literature in 1928. Now the bishop of Oslo has launched a process that he hopes will make her a saint in the Catholic Church. Undset, best known for her Nobel-winning trilogy Kristin Lavransdatter, lived a []
He’s been at the forefront of battling climate change and environmental damage, but now Arild Hermstad is fighting for his own life. The 59-year-old leader of Norway’s Greens Party was diagnosed with acute leukemia just before Parliament recessed for the summer. “We have professional, publicly financed health care, and the treatment I’m getting is tops []
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 the worst fire in Norway for more than 100 years. Drammen Fire Chief Torgeir Andersen could []
Some lawyers are warning that legal rights are at stake after Norway’s justice ministry made changes in how interpreters are paid. The changes resulted in what some interpreters claim was a 30 percent reduction in their pay. “I’m now turning down all jobs in the courts and for the police,” interpreter Natalia Maria Vigrestad told []
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 heads. Tour guide David Bruns was on the mountain plateau with its sheer drop down to []
Norwegians and tourists alike were sweating through what one meteorologist called “absolutely abnormal” temperatures this week. They rose to between 30-35C (85-95F) on Wednesday afternoon, and that’s uncomfortable when most homes and many businesses lack air conditioning. Norwegian weather site yr.no was noting how many cities and towns in Norway were warmer than in Southern []
Concerns have been flying for months that Norway’s royal family is stretched too thin, since the king and queen are elderly, the crown princess has been seriously ill and her children with Crown Prince Haakon are in or entering college. There were fewer royals available for representation duties in earlier generations, though, and both Princess []
