Orkney was under Norwegian and Danish control until 1472 when the islands were given to Scotland as part of Margaret of Denmark's wedding dowry to King James III of Scotland.

Oslo also has a relatively high unemployment rate, with 3.1 percent of its working population in one of the two categories. And unemployment is generally higher in counties in eastern and southern ...

Norway is a Census-designated place in White County, Indiana, with a population of 560. According to the most recent estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, 87.30% of residents identify as white, 0 ...

Norway’s hands-off approach to youth sports might explain why they’re so good when they get older The fun-based Norwegian system is the antithesis of the $19 billion American youth sports machine ...

More than a million people in Norway have now received their first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, according to official data. On Friday SYSVAK, Norway’s vaccine register, showed that 1,025,436 people had ...

Approximately 1 percent of Norway's population has antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 disease, according to a new report from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.

Norway is the largest exporter of salmon in the world. And while some of those fish are wild-caught, many are raised in "fish farms"- large cylindrical pens made of nylon in the open water.

Apple says its updated Maps app is now available in Finland, Norway, and Sweden. This is the seventeenth time that Apple has expanded its new map data since its public launch in September 2018. After ...

WWF opposes the hunting of Norway's wolves, following a decision by the Directorate for Nature to kill five individuals — a quarter of Norway's total wolf population. We use cookies to analyse how ...

There's some outrage in Norway as they've announced a plan to cull two-thirds of their endangered wolf population. Patrick Jones (@Patrick_E_Jones) has the details.

According to this map made by a Reddit user named "depo_," the countries with the most metal bands per capita (shown above in bloody-red lacquering) are all frozen Nordic nations: Finland, Norway ...