20.07.2021: Opinions - .The Finnmark model In Finnmark, the secondary health service is spread over a large area and the fifth and sixth year medical students therefore rotate between Alta, Karasjok ...

A recent climate initiative by the Norwegian government is facing opposition from the Saami Indigenous people, whose ...

Holland America is launching three new voyages through Norway, with ample opportunities to view the northern lights. The 14-day journeys are aboard ships outfitted with vessel-wide aurora alerts to ...

FINNMARK, Norway — Just a few years ago, almost no one drove electric vehicles up here. In this remote region north of the Arctic Circle — where reindeer outnumber people, avalanches can bury ...

Today, however, nearly all new car sales in Norway are electric. That’s true even in Finnmark, the northernmost region in Europe’s northernmost country.

Norway is “an unlikely place for a transportation revolution,” acknowledged Christina Bu, head of the Norwegian Electric Vehicle Association. At the Skoda dealership in Alta, Finnmark’s largest city, ...

Midnight sun, cod fishing and king crab safari are on the list of highlights as Finnair starts selling tickets to Alta, the largest town in Norway’s Finnmark region. The airline will serve Alta five ...

After four flights (Raleigh-Durham to Boston to Reykjavik to Oslo to Alta), I arrived in Alta, a small commune in the Finnmark region that calls itself “the city of the northern lights.” ...

Norway's new Finnmark Brigade will closely cooperate with Finnish forces and self-imposed restrictions on allied training along the border to Russia are up for change, leader of the Norwegian Army ...

Finland has adopted the use of the Euro as currency and, at the time of writing, £1 is equivalent to €1.20, meanwhile Norway uses the Norwegian Krone (£1 = 14NOK) and Sweden the Swedish Krona ...

Some 5,000 soldiers from northern Sweden and Finland then crossed the border into Finnmark near Kautokeino and continued to the Barents Sea coastline near Alta. Although self-imposed restrictions, ...

As Norway’s struggling left-center government braces for a new conservative Trump presidency in the US, it also faces a new reality at home. A majority of young Norwegian men are voting for ...