January 5, 2021
HELSINKI (AP) — Rescue teams searching for survivors four days after a landslide carried away homes in a Norwegian village found no signs of life Saturday amid the ruined buildings and debris. Three bodies have been recovered but searchers are …
January 21, 2014
Officials say a large fire has blazed through a historical village famous for its well-preserved wooden houses from the 18th and 19th centuries, destroying at least 23 buildings. The municipality of Laerdal, in western Norway, said in a statement Sunday …
August 6, 2013
Police say 55 people have been taken to hospitals following a truck fire in Norway’s second-longest tunnel. Police spokesman Jorn Lasse Refnes says the truck caught fire 3.5 kilometers (2.17 miles) into the tunnel, Gudvangatunnelen, in a district east of …
June 3, 2013
Norwegian police say a 48-year-old man died when he accidentally fell 40 meters (130 feet) into a ravine during an amateur bicycle race. Police spokesman Frode Kolltveit says the cyclist landed on railway tracks below. There were no trains passing …
November 8, 2012
Statoil on Wednesday evacuated 326 oil rig workers from a North Sea platform after the structure began to tilt, the Norwegian oil company said. Company spokesman Ole Anders Skauby said that most of the 374 people on the “Floatel Superior” …
November 18, 2011
Norwegian security officials say the Nordic country has been hit by one of the most extensive data espionage attacks in the country’s history. The Norwegian National Security Authority says industrial secrets from the oil, energy and defense industries have been …
September 16, 2011
Two people were killed and at least nine injured on Thursday in a fire on a cruise liner operating on a popular route along Norway’s craggy coast, officials said. Police said they received information that an additional four people were …
September 2, 2011
The tooth fairy in disguise? No, just a simple tooth thief. A man dressed in a black leather hat and a dark coat on Wednesday ran off with an eight-foot (2.5 meter) whale tooth from a museum in the Norwegian …