Lynley Bilby is currently travelling from England to Norway on the Emerald Princess. She will be posting updates throughout the trip.

Lynley Bilby is currently travelling from England to Norway on the Emerald Princess. She will be posting updates throughout the trip.

He has a laptop, treadmill and PlayStation but Norway's worst mass killer is suing for authorities for "inhumane" treatment in prison.

The natural beauty of Norway is stunning. There are jaw-dropping views nearly everywhere you look.

Today, we'd rather be in Tromso, Norway.

Reindeer have roamed Norway for thousands of years, but now reindeer herders are worried about the impact of climate change on their way of life.

With Mads and Borge in harness, Grant Bradley is in safe paws gliding through the pine forests above the Arctic Circle.

Danger is never far away on an Arctic expedition, writes Sarah Marshall.

Hardy men with pick-axes cut through tough terrain a century ago so a snug Grant Bradley could relish views that can only be described as spectacular.

Norway's Statoil is exploring for oil around New Zealand. Herald reporter Grant Bradley headed north to find out why they've come all this way.

Iran, once OPEC's second-biggest producer, will boost its oil exports by 500,000 barrels a day immediately after sanctions are lifted

A report found that in 2014, Norwegian police threatened to use their weapons 42 times. However, only two shots were actually fired during the entire year.

The city of Oslo now has what it's calling a bee highway - a path of flowering plants designed to keep bees well-fed as they pass through the urban area.

Hundreds of earthworms that were lifted by upcurrents of wind appeared to "rain down" on Norway this week.

Amid coal-dusted Stalinist buildings Jim Eagles finds a pole in the North Pole pointing to a pub ...

The Sea Shepherd group claims to have intercepted an illegal fishing vessel in the Southern Ocean.

New research suggests Viking conquests were more like romantic getaways than drunken stag dos - but they still had a penchant for brutality.

Sometimes there's nothing like a chilly holiday to leave you feeling invigorated.

A Norwegian man has shown that his love for cheeseburgers and McFlurries goes further than most people after tattooing a McDonald's receipt on his arm.

Andrea Jutson finds the real Norway while on a cruise searching for the Northern Lights.

A knife-wielding man has hijacked a bus in western Norway and killed three people on board, including the bus driver, police said.

Norway's domestic intelligence service tried to prevent one of the suspected gunmen in the Nairobi mall attack from joining Somali militants more than three years ago, but failed to talk him out of it, the agency's chief said.

Norway's snow hotel is a truly seasonal venue, writes Andrea Kitay.

Conservative Party leader Erna Solberg - nicknamed "Iron Erna" - will become Norway's new prime minister as the leader of a centre-right coalition government likely including an anti-immigration party.

The fjord-indented coastline delights Gillian Orr during the long daylight hours.

David Hill joins the trail of people who have gazed at or shrunk from a prolific Norwegian sculptor's work.

Norway's North Cape is far bleaker than ours, its summer majesty chilling David Hill to the bone.