Avalanche death settlement: Parents of Nikoline Røkenes, 2, resolve negligence complaint against city for 2.3M kr.
The parents of a two-year-old girl killed when their home was buried in the Dec. 19, 2015, avalanche have agreed to settle a negligence complaint...
Briefs from Svalbardposten for the week of Jan. 30, 2018
Record number of fire alarms; kitchen fires a particular concern The Longyearbyen Department received a record 187 alarms during 2017, 15 of which were fires...
‘Never got information about the danger’: Parents of 2-year-old girl killed in 2015 avalanche seek 4.4M kr. in lawsuit
"Had we known about the danger of avalanches we never would have agreed to live there." But Pia Sivertsen says she never learned about that...
Two lawsuits challenging Norway’s control of Arctic resources may have drastic – and drastically different – impacts
Make Norway share its oil and other natural resources in the vicinity of Svalbard, or prevent drilling altogether? Two lawsuits now before the court are...
