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A large fire breaks out among terraced houses in Krokstadelva, Drammen, Norway, spreading rapidly between multiple housing blocks and prompting mass evacuations. The municipality declares a crisis and calls in fire crews from eight neighboring municipalities.
2026-07-17

The uncrewed German-built Spectrum orbital rocket is launched in Andøya, Norway, becoming the first orbital rocket to launch from mainland Europe. The rocket stays in the air for just over half a minute before striking the ground and exploding.
2025-03-30

Five people, four from Norway and one from Switzerland, are killed in two separate avalanches while off-piste skiing in the French Alps.
2025-01-29

Russia adds Norway to its list of "unfriendly countries" after Norway expelled 15 Russian diplomats earlier this year.
2023-08-3

One person is killed and two others are injured when a crane collapses in Melhus, Trøndelag, Norway.
2023-01-6

A man threatens passers-by with a knife in Bislett, Oslo, Norway, before being shot dead by police. The motive behind the perpetrator's act is currently unknown, but is under investigation.
2021-11-9

Norway's public broadcaster NRK publishes for the first time video footage of Anders Behring Breivik parking his van bomb that killed eight people in Oslo on 22 July 2011.
2012-11-26

A Norwegian judge orders Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, to be kept in solitary confinement for four more weeks.
2011-09-20

Mordechai Vanunu, who spoke about Israel's nuclear ambitions to "The Sunday Times" in 1986 and was referred to as a "prisoner of conscience" by Amnesty International after Israel imprisoned him for that action, is released from prison again after serving three months for meeting foreigners, including his Norwegian girlfriend, in 2007. He requests that he be allowed to leave Israel.
2010-08-8