Norway's eurosceptic Centre Party quit the government on Thursday in a dispute over the adoption of European Union energy policies, leaving the centre-left Labour Party to rule alone eight months before an election.

Hurtigruten's 500-passenger MS Trollfjord cruise ship is seen in its namesake fjord, the Trollford in northern Norway. (Hurtigruten Norwegian Coastal Express/Hurtigruten Norwegian Coastal Express)

Norwegian police said on Friday (Jan 31) they had seized and boarded a Norwegian ship with an all-Russian crew on suspicion of involvement in causing damage to a telecoms cable in the Baltic Sea, the second vessel to be named by investigators in the case.

Norway's $1.8 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, reported on Wednesday a record annual profit of 2.51 trillion crowns ($222 billion), driven by last year's tech rally.

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund last year returned 13%, or $222 billion, but missed its self-imposed target for the second year in a row despite gains from the booming US technology sector.

Fjellstua viewpoint at Mount Aksla is popular among tourists and locals, but it will now be more challenging to make the trip.

Norway's government coalition collapsed on Thursday following a long dispute over the implementation of EU energy market regulations. The agrarian Centre Party, the junior partner of Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre's Labour Party,

The incident is the latest in a series of cases of cables being damaged in the Baltic Sea, amid heightened tensions between Russia and the West since Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

LONDON—Norwegian energy company Equinor has selected local rotorcraft operator Lufttransport RW AS as one of the operators to begin flying a new fleet of helicopters to service its offshore platforms. Tromsø-based Lufttransport will be a newcomer to offshore flying. The company currently flies...

Researchers discovered that Norway's Viking societies were more violent than Denmark's, with higher rates of weapon use and fatal injuries.

The Norwegian Ministry of Defence's (MoD's) Defence Research Establishment (Forsvarets forskningsinstitutt: FFI) has reported “significant progress” in information sharing between surveillance and attack unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) while in a so-called drone swarm, Rikka Amilde Seehus, research manager at FFI, told Janes on 29 January.