https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Norway in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A wooden bridge collapsed in southern Norway on Monday, sending a car and truck hurtling into a river, police said. Two drivers have been rescued from their vehicles. https://www.thelocal.no/20220815/two-drivers-rescued-after-bridge-in-south-norway-collapses Mon, 15 Aug 2022 12:48:13 +0200 two-drivers-rescued-after-bridge-in-south-norway-collapses Foreign residents in Norway may need to exchange their driving licence for a Norwegian one to be able to drive on the country's roads. https://www.thelocal.no/20210112/what-you-need-to-do-to-exchange-your-driving-licence-for-a-norwegian-one Tue, 12 Jan 2021 10:54:15 +0100 what-you-need-to-do-to-exchange-your-driving-licence-for-a-norwegian-one Norway's Prime Minister has encouraged everyone to holiday at home this year. But as well as bringing much-needed spending to tourist areas across the country, it has also brought traffic. https://www.thelocal.no/20200709/traffic-jams-and-ferry-queues-as-norway-holidays-at-home Thu, 09 Jul 2020 11:55:27 +0200 traffic-jams-and-ferry-queues-as-norway-holidays-at-home Norway is closing all schools, kindergartens, and universities to slow the spread of coronavirus, in what Prime Minister Erna Solberg has called "the most far-reaching measures we have ever had in peacetime in Norway". (Paywall free). https://www.thelocal.no/20200312/norway-shuts-all-schools-and-universities-to-fight-coronavirus-pandemic Thu, 12 Mar 2020 15:17:27 +0100 norway-shuts-all-schools-and-universities-to-fight-coronavirus-pandemic Norway's health minister has warned that the government will later today announce "the most far-reaching measures Norway's population has ever experienced in peacetime," to slow the spread of coronavirus. https://www.thelocal.no/20200312/norway-to-launch-most-far-reaching-measures-seen-in-peacetime-to-slow-coronavirus Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:02:26 +0100 norway-to-launch-most-far-reaching-measures-seen-in-peacetime-to-slow-coronavirus Norway's main airport operator is considering closing one of its runways at Oslo's Gardemoen airport, and shutting down several other airports following the US's dramatic decision to stop incoming flights from Europe. https://www.thelocal.no/20200312/norway-may-close-airports-as-coronovirus-travel-ban-hits Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:15:00 +0100 norway-may-close-airports-as-coronovirus-travel-ban-hits Oslo's city government has raised its emergency level to 'Level 3', and brought in a raft of strict new measures to slow the spread of coronavirus, citing the "extremely serious" situation. https://www.thelocal.no/20200311/oslo-raises-emergency-level-to-step-up-battle-against-virus Wed, 11 Mar 2020 17:10:31 +0100 oslo-raises-emergency-level-to-step-up-battle-against-virus An issue with software at the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (Statens vegvesen, NPRA) may have resulted in police and prosecuting authorities receiving incorrect information in legal cases. https://www.thelocal.no/20200113/norway-data-errors-may-have-caused-incorrect-traffic-convictions Mon, 13 Jan 2020 14:22:07 +0100 norway-data-errors-may-have-caused-incorrect-traffic-convictions Traffic in eastern Norway is feeling the effects of heavy snowfall on Monday morning. https://www.thelocal.no/20191111/traffic-and-flight-delays-in-eastern-norway-after-snowy-start-to-week Mon, 11 Nov 2019 12:59:55 +0100 traffic-and-flight-delays-in-eastern-norway-after-snowy-start-to-week A woman near Tromsø has had her driving license confiscated after failing to ensure visibility through her iced-up windscreen. https://www.thelocal.no/20180129/norwegian-driver-loses-licence-after-not-scraping-ice-from-window Mon, 29 Jan 2018 15:23:21 +0100 norwegian-driver-loses-licence-after-not-scraping-ice-from-window GPS surveillance is a fairer method for charging motorists for their use of Norway’s roads than toll booths, says the Norwegian Road Traffic Advisory Council. https://www.thelocal.no/20170926/satellite-surveillance-should-replace-tolls-on-norways-roads-council Tue, 26 Sep 2017 18:51:50 +0200 satellite-surveillance-should-replace-tolls-on-norways-roads-council Two Norwegian cyclists have been flown to hospital with serious injuries after a runaway trailer collided with them and a third cyclist in Vestfold County. https://www.thelocal.no/20170804/three-norwegian-cyclists-hit-by-runaway-trailer Fri, 04 Aug 2017 20:01:32 +0200 three-norwegian-cyclists-hit-by-runaway-trailer Severe weather caused havoc across Norway on Sunday and Monday, with property and roads damaged and traffic delays in several areas. https://www.thelocal.no/20170724/torrential-rain-causes-road-closures-evacuations-and-damage-across-norway Mon, 24 Jul 2017 15:45:27 +0200 torrential-rain-causes-road-closures-evacuations-and-damage-across-norway Motorists on Norway’s E6 highway were greeted by a rare sight Monday as a reconstruction of a woolly mammoth appeared to be hightailing it north. https://www.thelocal.no/20170515/woolly-mammoth-spotted-in-norwegian-traffic Mon, 15 May 2017 22:17:40 +0200 woolly-mammoth-spotted-in-norwegian-traffic The former head engineer of the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (Norges vegvesen, NPRA) says he is concerned about traffic and safety in a mooted second Oslofjord tunnel. https://www.thelocal.no/20170508/oslofjord-tunnel-has-serious-omissions-former-lead-engineer Mon, 08 May 2017 16:50:29 +0200 oslofjord-tunnel-has-serious-omissions-former-lead-engineer Fewer people have lost their lives in traffic accidents so far this year in Norway compared with the same period in any other year. https://www.thelocal.no/20170502/fewer-than-ever-norwegians-killed-in-traffic-accidents Tue, 02 May 2017 13:17:53 +0200 fewer-than-ever-norwegians-killed-in-traffic-accidents The Norwegian government is working on legislation that would allow the general public to test self-driving vehicles on the nation’s roads. https://www.thelocal.no/20161227/norway-to-clear-the-way-for-self-driving-cars Tue, 27 Dec 2016 15:50:07 +0100 norway-to-clear-the-way-for-self-driving-cars As 2015 draws to an end, Norway is on pace to have its safest ever year on the roads. https://www.thelocal.no/20151204/no-norway-kids-have-died-in-traffic-this-year Fri, 04 Dec 2015 17:01:07 +0100 no-norway-kids-have-died-in-traffic-this-year A bus carrying 29 school children slid off the side of the road and overturned outside of Tønsberg in southern Norway on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.no/20151124/school-bus-crashes-in-southern-norway Tue, 24 Nov 2015 11:42:23 +0100 school-bus-crashes-in-southern-norway A man in northern Norway accidentally ran over and killed his own 74-year-old father on Thursday afternoon as he came to pick him up for a hospital appointment. https://www.thelocal.no/20140328/norway-man-runs-over-and-kills-74-yr-old-dad Fri, 28 Mar 2014 09:21:00 +0100 norway-man-runs-over-and-kills-74-yr-old-dad