Norwegian maritime authorities said late Wednesday that they had begun towing a Dutch cargo ship that was drifting dangerously towards the coast after the crew were forced to abandon it.
A Dutch cargo ship was adrift in the Norwegian Sea on Tuesday after it was evacuated in dramatic fashion in rough seas, Norway's maritime authorities said.
The Scandinavian airline SAS is to restart flights between Oslo and the UK, Ireland, Germany, and Switzerland, in a bet that restrictions will be lifted on the countries next week.
Rescuers were working Sunday to airlift more than 1,300 passengers and crew off a cruise ship after it got into difficulty in rough seas off the Norwegian coast.
Quick-thinking medical staff in Norway saved a patient's life by calling in an F-16 fighter jet to whisk life saving medical equipment from one hospital to another, media reports said on Friday.
Norway’s Coast Guard service has rescued an 82-year-old British solo yachtsman who on Tuesday refused to be airlifted to safety, despite his boat coming perilously close to an oil platform in the middle of a raging storm.
The Norwegian rescue boat sent to the Mediterranean earlier this summer has made its first rescue, picking up 14 Syrian refugees whose rubber boat floundered as they tried to make the crossing from Turkey to Greece.
A video filmed from a rescue helicopter shows how two fishermen were rescued from an inflatable lifeboat after their ship sank on Thursday off the coast of northern Norway.
The Norwegian rescue crew sent to Kathmandu have rescued a 27-year-old woman who had been trapped under the rubble ever since the city was hit by a devastating earthquake on Saturday.
Norway’s government plans to send two ships to the Mediterranean to join the EU’s Frontex force, a sea rescue vessel with long experience of saving North Sea fishermen, and a larger ship with enough deck space to accommodate 500 people.
Norway’s 34-strong rescue team has finally arrived in Kathmandu to help find and treat victims of Saturday’s devastating earthquake, after their journey ran on some 30 hours longer than originally planned.
Norway’s Norsar rescue team, bound for earthquake-hit Nepal with six rescue dogs, has been held up in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, after discovering that there was no more space at Kathmandu airport to land planes.
Rescue teams on Wednesday morning found and brought home the dead bodies of all four of the skiers who went missing in Norway's Sunndalsfjella mountains on Monday afternoon.
Frozen to the bone but in good spirits, a 23-year-old American was rescued at 10am on Tuesday after spending a bitterly cold night in stormy conditions on a mountainside in southern Norway.
Two electricity workers in Norway were rescued on Tuesday after spending more than 24 hours stuck on a high-tension power
line 85 meters above a fjord.
Two power workers are awaiting the arrival of an alpine rescue team after spending the night in a basket perched 85 metres above a fjord in western Norway.
