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Terma and Kongsberg launch a Danish-Norwegian venture to keep military aircraft flying
Defence Aviation Services, launched in Copenhagen on Wednesday, will deliver maintenance, repair and overhaul for military airborne platforms, drawing on KAMS experience with the F-35, the P-8 and the F-16 in Norway.
Oslo talks send Witkoff on to St. Petersburg as the Ukraine diplomacy moves a step
Norway's account of Tuesday's meeting, published on Wednesday, records agreement to keep the diplomatic process on track, a working dinner with allied security advisers, and a next stop in Russia for the US envoy.
Nel names Morten Holum as its next chief executive, and Hexagon Purus makes the other half of the move
The hydrogen company will be led on an interim basis by its finance chief from Nov. 1 until Mr Holum arrives from Hexagon Purus by May 2027 at the latest, where Salman Alam steps in as interim chief executive the same day.
Zelenskyy comes to Oslo for Ukraine talks hosted by Store and Stubb
At Ukraine's request, Norway and Finland organised a day of meetings in Oslo on Tuesday, with US envoy Steve Witkoff in the room, Jared Kushner joining remotely, a royal audience and a visit to the Storting.
The EU puts security at the head of a new Arctic strategy built with its northern neighbours
The European Commission's new strategy for the Arctic, adopted on Tuesday, organises cooperation with partners including Norway around four priorities: security, climate, economy and people.
Norway retargets its under-16 social media law at harmful platforms, games included
The government will write a risk-of-harm test into the coming age-limit law and drop the broad exemptions for games and messaging services. TikTok, Roblox and Snapchat, as they work today, would all be covered.
Five Norwegian sites will host hybrid-electric EL2 demonstration flights in 2027
A quay with no runway, a business park, two large hub airports and a short northern strip: Bristow, Electra, Avinor and the aviation authority have picked the places where the EL2 demonstrator will test what ultra-short flight needs from Norway.
Norway's under-17 women beat Ghana 3-0 for a first World Cup win
Two goals in the first 13 minutes and a late second from Maia Melgard gave Norway a 3-0 win over Ghana in Rabat on Sunday, the country's first victory at the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, at its second appearance at the tournament.
Norway and its EFTA partners sign the Viet Nam free trade agreement in Hanoi
The signing on Sunday closes a negotiation launched in 2012. About one in two of the goods Norway sells to Viet Nam loses its tariff the day the deal takes effect, and salmon, now taxed at up to 15 percent, enters duty-free from day one.
Per Strand Hagenes rides into history as the first Norwegian to win Paris-Tours
The 23-year-old attacked inside the final kilometre from an 11-man breakaway and held off Jasper Stuyven to win the 120th edition of the classic on the Boulevard Béranger in Tours.
Inflation quickens to 3.4 percent as food and transport prices climb
Consumer prices rose 3.4 percent in the year to September, the highest reading since April, while core inflation held steady at 3.0 percent. The figures land two weeks after Norges Bank raised its policy rate to 4.5 percent.
Norway plans to draw $63.6 billion from the oil fund in 2027
The 2027 budget bill proposes spending 608.4 billion crowns from the sovereign wealth fund, up from this year, as the minority government braces for a budget fight in parliament.
Two killed as a shooter opens fire on a hunting party in Halden
A shooter opened fire on a hunting party in forest near Halden on Sunday morning, killing two and seriously injuring a third. A suspect was arrested at the scene; police later confirmed a connection between the suspect and the hunting party.
Rheinmetall Nordic opens new Skoppum site as defence industry expands
The 4,579-square-metre facility in Vestfold will develop and integrate electro-optical and fire-control systems, with 100 employees at opening and room for 127.
Ten-man Norway let a Cardiff lead slip as Wales struck back twice
Oscar Bobb's early opener was cancelled out by Daniel James and a Neco Williams free kick after Torbjorn Heggem's red card, leaving Norway beaten 2-1 in the Nations League.
The oldest ice is melting, and the Stone Age is coming out of it
Forty-eight prehistoric arrows recovered from Jotunheimen this season, the oldest six millennia old. The finds get older because the ice they come from is older, and it is disappearing.
Oslo homes are cheaper in real terms. Young buyers still cannot reach them
Prices in the capital have barely moved for nearly two years while consumer prices rose 5.5 percent. High rates and weak purchasing power keep first-time buyers out.
Brussels keeps its Arctic moratorium as Norway licenses on
The Commission says the moratorium on new Arctic oil and gas development stays in the updated Arctic strategy, due Oct. 20, 2026. Norway's APA 2026 round expanded into the Barents Sea anyway.
41 medals: the numbers behind Norway's Milano Cortina
Eighteen gold, 12 silver, 11 bronze. The final table confirms Norway's place atop the Winter Games, with the United States second and the Netherlands third.
What the Svalbard Treaty actually bans
Article 9 prohibits naval bases, fortifications and warlike use. It does not make the archipelago fully demilitarized, whatever the shorthand says.
Licensed to drill, bound to save: the fiscal frame around APA 2026
Twenty-one companies want to explore. The white paper sets the 3 percent spending path that will govern whatever they find.
The oil fund's record half: 1,753 billion kroner in six months
A 9.4 percent return took the fund to 22,683 billion kroner. Currency moved against it, and the 3 percent rule still governs what the state can spend.
The seed vault's 70th deposit: 15,387 samples into the mountain
June's deposit from 11 genebanks took the Svalbard vault past 1.4 million samples. The February deposit added 7,864 more.
House prices jumped 2.1 percent in August. The average home now costs 5.04 million kroner
Eiendom Norge reports a startlingly strong month after the weakest July on record. Oslo is the exception, with 0.3 percent growth so far this year.