Norway refuses to pay compensation for occupational illnesses and disabilities to oil industry pioneers who, at the cost of their health, laid the foundations for the Scandinavian country's high prosperity. Only 92 oil industry veterans remain alive, demanding compensation of 8 million kroner (800,000 kroner) each, a total of 1 million USD.

Since its founding in 1996, the Arctic Council has been the institutional core of cooperation in the North. Created to promote dialogue among the eight Arctic states and various organisations of indigenous peoples, it provided for more than twenty-five years a rare form of stability in international relations. That mechanism is now in deep crisis. The suspension of relations with Russia after 2022, following the special military operation in Ukraine, has disrupted the very principle on which the Council was built: the ability to cooperate despite global tensions...

NATO's annual nuclear weapons exercise Steadfast Noon ended just before the weekend. Of NATO's 32 member states, 14 nations participated in the nuclear war exercise, including Norway. Experts comment on the 'nuclear posture' of the country.

Food security advocate Kathy Okpik led 30 residents of Iqaluit in a loud protest against high grocery prices in front of Northmart on Saturday, October 25.

Arctic Circle Assembly 2025 is the largest global platform entirely dedicated to Arctic issues, a meeting place for prime ministers and ministers, ambassadors, military officials, scientists, business leaders, and representatives of local and indigenous communities...

It will now be possible for the court to sentence criminals to a maximum of 16 years instead of 10 years.

Iceland and Greenland will intensify cooperation relations between the countries. Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen and the Prime Minister of Iceland Kristrún Mjöll Frostadóttir have on Tuesday re-signed a cooperation declaration from 2022.

The Trump administration is proceeding with new oil leasing on Alaska's North Slope.