Norway’s defense minister said the strategic importance of the energy-rich nation’s polar archipelago is rising due to ...

A recent CNN report revealed that the infrastructure of the world's northernmost commercial airport, located in Svalbard, Norway, is under threat as the permafrost beneath it starts to melt. Svalbard ...

NORWEGIANS are fearing that Donald Trump or Vladimir Putin may target their Arctic islands next if Greenland is invaded.

Life here follows its own wild rules.

HELSINKI (Reuters) -Russia accused Norway of militarising the Svalbard archipelago, a claim Norway denied in a comment to news agency NTB after Russia on Friday had summoned the Norwegian ambassador ...

A large plot of private land in Norway’s Arctic Svalbard archipelago may soon be sold for about €300 million ($330 million), but the deal has raised concerns in Oslo over national security. The ...

The world's northernmost town is Longyearbyen in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. The town is 800 miles from the North Pole and one of the most remote human settlements on Earth. Longyearbyen ...

On a wind-blasted plateau high above the most northerly town on Earth, arrays of white spherical domes stand like sentinels in the Arctic snow. Hidden from casual observers below in Longyearbyen, the ...

Norway-based state-owned airport operator Avinor has launched a pilot project using liquefied biogas to generate electricity ...

President Trump wants to annex Greenland. We look at the fight over a different Arctic territory for insights.

President Donald Trump dishonors the United States and Denmark, one of America’s most loyal allies, with his threats that the Danish territory of Greenland must be transferred to American ownership.