Carrying a rifle and keeping an alcohol-ration card are a few things that surprised me about living in Longyearbyen, the northernmost town on Earth.

The country’s famously steep mountains and deep fjords were shaped by the glaciers that covered Scandinavia 10,000 years ago.

Stockholm Wood City is swapping polluting steel and concrete for a more climate-friendly construction material: timber.

The developer will demolish a building on the east side of the Bergen Town Center property that currently contains a former ...