municipalities of Norway

Talking to Geir Lippestad, then Vice-Mayor of Oslo, at an Intercultural Cities Milestone Event last November, about hatred of multiculturalism, diversity .... We saw when we had the refugee crisis, how small villages in Norway who set up refugee camps reacted when they started closing down because there ...

Oslo: Norway's fjords have long inspired the country's artists and drawn streams of tourists. In winter, their ice-laced surfaces shimmer beside snow-capped mountains: a vision of natural beauty, blissfully untouched. But lost in the depths of the fjord in Oslo, stretching out from the capital, is a trove that would ...

OSLO (NYTIMES) - Norway's fjords have long inspired the country's artists and drawn streams of tourists. ... Ambitious plans to clean up the city's industrial waste and sewage have been in the works for decades, along with a proposal for a car-free city centre and a ban on using oil to heat buildings that is to ...

Ambitious plans to clean up the city's industrial waste and sewage have been in the works for decades, along with a proposal for a car-free city center and a ban on using oil to heat buildings that is to go into effect in 2020. Campaigns like these won Oslo the European Green Capital Award for 2019.

"The city will not be held liable if you go and the hillside continues to slip and they end up over the hill injured or, even worse, dead," Huntington Mayor Steve Williams said during a Huntington City Council meeting Monday. "It's time that individuals start showing a little bit of sense ... We're doing what we ...

Of all the right chords Norway's capital strikes, Saturday sundown is probably best. We're sailing through the island labyrinth of Oslofjord as a buffet of prawns is laid out below decks. A Nordic singsong breaks out. As views and beer hit the sweet spot, it strikes me that there's a grand stretch in the evenings.

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South Korean officials built a modern yet traditional Olympic Village to house athletes competing in the Winter Olympics but Norwegian skiers and biathlon athletes aren't staying there. They have their own exclusive accommodation aimed at helping them win medals, and their haul increased on Tuesday.

Norway is moving to ban semi-automatic firearms as of 2021, which will mark a decade since Anders Behring Breivik used such weapons to kill 69 people, most of them teenagers, before surrendering to police, a lawmaker said Wednesday. Peter Frolich of the Norwegian Parliament's judicial affairs ...