Suggests New Measures For Population Growth in the North Extended arrangements for reducing student loans, increased child benefits, permanent trainee programs, and measures for new housing. These are among the recommendations from an advice panel on the Finnmark and Northern Troms action zone in Northern Norway.
More Than NOK 100 Billion to be Invested in the Norwegian Arctic This Decade “The amounts currently invested in Northern Norway are under-communicated”, says Director Kjell Giæver of Petro Arctic. High North News has mapped the largest investment projects in the Norwegian Arctic.
“Must Strengthen Trust Between the Authorities and the People” The Norwegian Defense Minister has appeared at the NGO Utsyn’s two last dialogue meetings. Utsyn Manager Hedda Bryn Langemyr believes that is a sign that the authorities want a better dialogue with the civilian population.
Updated Corona in the Arctic: Northern Norway Still Defying National Regulations High North News provides updates about the spreading of the coronavirus in the Arctic. Today, Tuesday, the number of infections in the circumpolar High North is still low. In Norway, Mayor Ronald Wærnes of Båtsfjord municipality is one out of a series of local actors who are still critical of the government's asking municipalities to lift quarantine regulations for healthy persons who have traveled from further south in the country.
