Новости за 26.04.2024

The cost of a plastic bag at the grocery store in Norway jumped last year to NOK 4.25 but is now set to rise again. The bag fee is aimed at further reducing their use. The retailers’ own environmental fund (Handelens Miljøfond) doesn’t think plastic bag consumption has declined enough. Now a punitive fee of […]

After years of accidents and complaints sparked tighter regulation of electric scooters, Oslo’s new Conservatives-led city government now wants more of them, along with some deregulation. That’s bound to spark more angry public debate. They’re called elsparkesyklene in Norwegian, a name that’s often blamed for allowing them to be operated much like sykler (bicycles). There were […]

Norwegian police continue to face an unusual wave of stabbings and shootings so far this year. The latest involves a man in his 50s, who’s been charged with stabbing a 12-year-old boy who was on his way to school in Moss, about an hour’s drive south of Oslo. The boy suffered several knife wounds but […]

Much of the airspace over Northern Norway was closed down Friday afternoon, reportedly because of a torn fiber cable in Bodø. The air traffic disruption follows another one just the day before, when air space was closed over Southern Norway, and investigations are underway. The so-called fiberbrudd affected air travel from Bodø and northward, including […]