A specially designed ship with a helicopter pad prepares to take supplies from Stavanger harbor to an offshore oil platform. OSLO, Norway -- Kristian Midtoy is a kindergarten chef in downtown Oslo.

OSLO (Reuters) -Sitting in his lakeside villa in the Swiss city of Lucerne, Borger Borgenhaug misses his grandchildren and the smell of the Nordic sea on a clear summer night. The carpenter turned ...

Norway's oil industry has yet to learn lessons from accidents and spillages, and StatoilHydro and other operators need to improve, according to the country's safety watchdog, writes Beate Schjolberg.

All over Europe, companies are looking to reduce energy costs and their carbon footprint. And it’s more than just talk — the weekend saw the world’s largest floating (offshore) wind farm, Hywind ...

Scandinavia has long been looked at admiringly by democratic socialists in the United States for its generous welfare state. In the last few years, Norway in particular has gained attention from ...

The Atlantic Council’s Ian Hansen made the argument last month that realists are wrong to identify NATO’s expansion as the source of tension with Russia. He argued that if only NATO had been enlarged ...

Norway has something to teach almost every other nation in the developed world. Unemployment in the country moved to 2.8% last month. That is very high by Norway’s standards. Last year the figure was ...

GRIMSTAD, Norway, February 15 (UNHCR) - As a strong swimmer in a nation of mainly nomadic camel herders, Abdullahi Yusuf Jibril was always a little different. But today, as a Somali refugee in Norway, ...