Norway’s abundant renewable electricity questions the need for new power projects, as expanding energy-intensive industry ...

When Kate Butchart moved to Oslo in 2018 for what was supposed to be a five-month work assignment, she had no idea she’d spend seven years there, become a Norwegian citizen, and fall in love with a ...

Skjolden, at the innermost tip of Norway’s Sognefjord, offers dramatic fjord sailing, alpine excursions, UNESCO-listed Urnes ...

A new book examines Stavanger as a model smart, sustainable city, exploring its use of technology, governance, and urban ...

Dugnad is a Norwegian tradition of voluntary, unpaid community work where neighbors and groups collaborate on projects like cleaning, maintenance, or fundraising, fostering cooperation, connection, ...

The look on the lady’s face said it all as she grabbed at the Thor’s hammer dangling from my necklace. “Skinheads wear these,” she snarled. “Racists and Nazis!” “I do Viking reenactment,” I explained, ...

Though Norwegian Americans practically define who they are through the eating of lutefisk during the Christmas season, I have found to my surprise that the vast majority of Norwegian Americans know ...

Neanderthal humans (Homo neanderthalensis) are documented in European contexts for around 430,000 years, according to new studies. The accepted genomic contribution of Neanderthal DNA in modern Homo ...

For over 48 years, her life and death have remained a mystery. Isdalskvinnen, the “Isdal Woman” or the “Woman from Ice Valley,” is one of the most famous unsolved cases in recent Norwegian history.

In 1979, George Lucas chose Finse, Norway, for the film location for Star Wars Episode V—The Empire Strikes Back, and who does not remember the epic scenes from the ice planet Hoth? This year marks ...

Celebrating Syttende Mai and all that is Norwegian is nothing new to the Norwegian-American community of Westby, Wis. Located in the Driftless Region of western Wisconsin, the area around the present ...