Minnesota business ties as President Lisa Erickson attracts Norwegian startups to the state’s strong Scandinavian community, Fortune 500 economy, and thriving tech scene, creating new partnerships and ...

Christie Ericson teaches us about the Norwegian language and the resurgence in popularity around Håndarbeid (handicrafts).

As a tour operator specializing in travel to Scandinavia, with a sub-specialty in Norway and heritage travel, Brekke Tours has had the privilege of assisting numerous Norwegian-Americans return to ...

For many, Christmas in the Twin Cities is not complete without a trip through Gingerbread Wonderland at Minneapolis’ Norway House. This year marks the 10th anniversary of this “beloved ...

It is with great sadness that the Greater Tacoma Peace Prize Board of Directors announces the death of beloved board member and 2006 Greater Tacoma Peace Prize (GTPP) laureate William Fawcett Lincoln, ...

Although Norway has a short growing season, it is not short on its love of flora, whether in the abundance of the country’s well-tended home gardens that enchant all passersby or the many public ...

When Lars Dahle, CEO and co-founder of SynPlan, recently traveled from Norway to Minnesota, it wasn’t just to attend a health care conference — it marked a pivotal moment for the company’s U.S.

Almost eight years after the terrorist attacks on the government building complex in Oslo and the island of Utøya, a white paper describes the planning phases to date of the work on the new government ...

The first Midwestern stop for most immigrants was Chicago with more than 47,000 Norwegians by 1910. Chicago was the third largest Norwegian city after Oslo and Bergen at the time, earning it the ...

Over the years’s, it’s been a song that is often sung at gatherings in the Scandinavian-American community across North America. I once sang it at a concert in Iceland with my old friend and musical ...

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The Norwegian oil painting Logging in Modum, Norway, winter 1926, by Anders Abrahamsen Kongsrud, reminds me of the traditional Christmas song “Jingle Bells ...