A Norwegian fighter jet on a training exercise jet mistakenly machine-gunned a control tower with three officers inside, who survived unhurt, the military said on Sunday.
Norwegian teacher and local politician Roy Bø was recently at an international pigeon enthusiasts’ conference in Netherlands when he received a rather out-of-the-ordinary business proposal.
Two people were taken into police custody at Bergen Airport on Tuesday after reports of disruptive and abusive behaviour on board a Wizz Air flight from Gdansk, Poland.
While two officers were discussing the problem of accidentally discharging their weapons, one officer reached into a colleague’s holster and accidentally shot through their pants leg.
Norwegian estate agent Vermund Thorkildsen got much more than he bargained for with his recent purchase of a flat in the Oslo neighbourhood of Majorstua, according to a report in Dagbladet.
Leap Day gives the rest of us an extra 24 hours every fourth year to get around to those tasks we just never seem to have time for, but for one Norwegian family Leap Year brings something extra special.
As proof that sometimes mysteries are better left unsolved, Tuesday’s public viewing of three film reels left unclaimed in a Norwegian hotel for 36 years was somewhat anticlimactic.
An American man sent a box containing three rolls of film to himself at a hotel in Western Norway in September 1980 but never claimed the package. On Tuesday, the mysterious films will be shown, although no one knows what to expect.
Using Hitler, Gaddafi and Kim Jong-il teddy bears, the Norwegian Heart and Lung Association wants parents to be aware of the dangers in their kids' bedrooms.
A car thief in Norway got more than he bargained with when the vehicle's owner, dressed only in his underwear, clung heroically to the vehicle's roof in temperatures of -17C to foil the theft.
Stig ‘Tonish’ Tonsjø is a proud Norwegian police officer and a big fan of Rihanna, so he and a colleague decided to post a video of his fancy footwork to show the human side of Norway’s finest.
Children can rest assured that Santa Claus is alive and well, after Norway's largest newspaper apologised Friday for announcing that he had died at the age of 227.
Police in Oslo who responded to an emergency call after hearing screams from an apartment were shocked to find the howls belonged to a lone chess player displeased with his performance during a game.
Police in northern Sweden have arrested two individuals with a haul of over 25,000 Norwegian nappies, which they believe were destined for the black market in eastern Europe.
Bjørn Frilund was gutting a large cod he'd caught, when he felt a big lump in its belly. As he cut in, he first found two semi-digested herrings. Then he pulled out a hefty orange vibrator.
OK, the joke’s over. It’s time for us to reveal which of our The Local’s stories across our network today were red herrings, or April fish as they say in France and Italy.
