Buying alcohol in Norway is expensive but what about the strict rules around purchasing it? Here's what you should know about the system that controls the sale of beer, wine, and spirits.
As Norway extends its controversial ban on serving alcohol, pubs and restaurants are pouring their out-of-date stock down the drain which is providing an unexpected challenge for the sewage system.
Norway is known for having some of the highest prices in the world for beer and wine, but the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic could have a knock-on effect of making such products cheaper.
Poland has prevented hundreds of thousands of bottles of alcohol gel sanitiser from being exported to Norway, demanding that the company instead send the product for use in Polish hospitals.
The largest Norwegian pension fund will blacklist companies that profit from alcohol, gambling and pornography, divesting shares in prominent companies like Carlsberg and William Hill.
Swedish border town Strömstad was preparing for a stampede of Norwegian party-seekers as its western neighbours tried to find a way around the closure of alcohol retailers on the country's biggest holiday.
A Latvian Air Baltic pilot and three crew members were pulled off a Greece-bound passenger plane in Oslo early on Saturday after failing a breathalyser test before take-off, Norwegian police said.
An advert by a Norwegian anti-alcohol campaign group is probably the last thing you’d expect to go viral. But then again, never has not drinking looked quite so cool.
The bartender is not your friend: they'll more often than not ply you with drinks no matter how wasted you are. And according to a new Norwegian study, this becomes practically a certainty if you are a woman.
Norway's state alcohol monopoly has reported its first decline in sales for 17 years, as Norwegians buy more wine and spirits on the black market, duty free, or across the border in Sweden.
The minority Green Party has said that tax-free sales in airport should be disbanded, as the discounted goods encourage Norwegians to fly despite its environmental impact.
The Norwegian state liquor monopoly wants to take over the sale of wine and spirits in tax-free, saying that airport sales threaten the alcohol vendor's legitimacy and financing.
The average blood alcohol content of Norwegian rape victims renders them "near unconscious", according to a Trondheim doctor whose research found that eight out of ten rape victims in Norway had been drinking before the assault.
Police at Gardermoen airport in Oslo opted against detaining a man on Sunday evening because he was 'too drunk for his own well being' and instead took him straight to hospital.
After a dramatic car chase, Swedish police on Tuesday afternoon apprehended the well-known Norwegian smuggler Erik Fallo with hundreds of litres of vodka stowed in his vehicle.
A hunt for the keys to a booze-filled shed led a naked Norwegian all the way to the drunk tank last weekend after a hankering for a snack got him out of bed and into trouble.
Getting drunk repeatedly as a teenager doesn't necessarily increase the risk of becoming an alcoholic as an adult, a new study of young Norwegians has found.
Norwegian customs officials made the country’s second largest ever beer seizure on Sunday afternoon after a 31-year-old Polish truck driver was stopped as he crossed into Norway from Sweden.
