Police in Bergen deployed multiple units early Friday after reports of shots fired and people possibly carrying weapons at an address in the city. Two people were brought under control, and police said no one was injured.

Norway’s foreign ministry will spend NOK 20 million on Oslo Forum 2026 at Losby Gods outside Oslo while keeping the participant list secret. The bill is public; the access rules and the names of those invited are not.

Oslo police have developed drones fitted with electroshock weapons and are now testing them in operational settings, according to the Police Directorate. The trial puts a new category of remote force into ordinary policing and shifts the argument from technical possibility to rules, oversight and rollout.

A teenage boy died after the light motorcycle he was riding collided with an elk near Jonsvatnet outside Trondheim. The crash puts attention back on a recurring hazard on Norwegian rural roads, where large wildlife, dusk conditions and small vehicles leave little margin for error.

Agder’s sexual assault clinic is treating more patients than before, with staff telling NRK that about 70 percent of victims freeze during an assault rather than resist. The increase is concentrated among younger patients and puts pressure on a service that also supplies evidence and documentation used by police and prosecutors.

A new landslide crossed the E6 at Nordnes in Kåfjord during the night to Wednesday, shutting one of northern Norway’s main road links again. The closure puts the usual question back on the table in Troms: not only when traffic returns, but why a national artery keeps failing at the same point.

Trygve Slagsvold Vedum wants to abolish Norway’s zero-growth target for car traffic, a planning rule that has steered urban transport policy for years. Removing it would weaken one of the state’s main tools for pushing commuters from cars to buses, trains and bicycles.

A newly opened Bergen Inclusion Centre has been plagued by a sewage smell for two years, according to staff who say the stench is sending people on sick leave. The case turns a polished municipal opening into a simpler question: who accepted a new public building before basic sanitation worked.

Tromsø is suspending its youth outreach service and the volunteer Natteravnene patrols during the summer holiday because of tight municipal finances. NRK reports that the closure comes as police warn of more youth violence and a higher risk of recruitment into criminal networks.

Repeated ferry cancellations between Hasvik and Øksfjord have pushed local politicians in western Finnmark to demand a better service. For residents and businesses on Sørøya island, the ferry is the main road, and missed departures cut access to jobs, school, health care and deliveries.

Norway’s new Altinn rollout has run into enough trouble that Nav may have to postpone planned changes within two weeks. What began as an IT launch problem now reaches into the country’s welfare administration, where agencies and citizens depend on systems they cannot bypass.

Oslo’s nursing homes are moving cleaning, meal logistics and other routine duties from nurses and health care workers to hotel-service staff. The city says the change frees trained staff for residents; the numbers will show whether it adds care capacity or mainly redraws job boundaries.

The E6 between Trondheim and Stjørdal was closed 306 times in four months, according to NRK, disrupting one of Trøndelag’s main commuter and freight routes. The repeated stoppages have turned a short stretch of road into a recurring cost for workers, hauliers and businesses that depend on predictable access to Trondheim and Værnes.

A large overnight search is under way in Rødberg in Nore og Uvdal after a hiker in his 70s was reported missing. Police say search conditions are difficult, turning a single disappearance into a broad rural rescue operation involving multiple services.

A teenager was taken to hospital after being stabbed during a russetreff near Langangen in Porsgrunn early Tuesday. The incident places another youth gathering under police investigation, this time outside Norway’s largest cities.

A new national mapping found that 80,000 Norwegian primary and lower secondary pupils were absent for more than 10 percent of the school year. The figures move the issue out of the category of exceptional cases and into the daily operation of schools, families and municipal welfare services.

A central Oslo building registered as 18 apartments is being marketed online as an apartment hotel, according to VG. The case puts pressure on how Oslo monitors housing stock, zoning compliance, and short-term commercial use in a city where central homes are scarce and expensive.

Air traffic at Stavanger Airport was briefly disrupted after an unauthorized drone entered the area, and a man in his 40s later admitted flying it. Police seized the drone, turning a short interruption into another test of how cheaply a single operator can interfere with airport operations.

Swedish mining company Grangex has postponed the final investment decision on reopening the Sydvaranger mine in Kirkenes until the third quarter of 2026. The delay extends uncertainty around one of northern Norway’s largest industrial hopes, while the municipality and local businesses are left planning around a project that still lacks a binding go-ahead.

Oslo residents may have paid waste-collection fees for services they never received, according to an internal document cited by Aftenposten and reported by Nettavisen. The case reaches beyond a billing glitch: it puts the city’s control of mandatory household fees under pressure.

Norway’s municipal wage settlement was agreed before a planned strike by 10,000 employees could begin, sparing local services an immediate stoppage. The agreement closes one of the largest public-sector talks for now, while mediation in the state sector and Oslo municipality continued into Friday.

Helse Møre og Romsdal plans to remove 300 full-time positions and close services as it tries to save NOK 1 billion. The cuts expose how Norway’s hospital system is trimming capacity in a large, thinly populated county where centralisation shifts costs onto patients and local communities.