Kautokeino

Warm, wet spring weather has created ideal conditions for mosquitoes, and researchers say Norway is heading into an unusually heavy mosquito season nationwide. In Finnmark, mosquitoes have already emerged earlier than normal, driving some residents to flee inland for the coast.

An NRK video clip reports temperatures close to −40°C in Kautokeino in northern Norway.

Around one hundred reindeer broke through thin ice at Mierojávri, north of Kautokeino; at least 20 drowned. Rescuers had to abort because the ice was too thin to walk on and too thick to use their boat.

Nearly 190 reindeer perished after falling through thin ice in Finnmark, revealing a lack of proper rescue equipment and the need for better emergency preparedness in reindeer herding communities.

Changing weather with a lot of snow, rain and strong frost with icing, has made it difficult for the reindeer to reach lichen and moss on the ground in Nordland.

The reindeer owners feel they had to choose. Pay expensive fines or move with the reindeer across the river even if the ice was too thin. On Saturday, a thousand reindeer went through the ice in Vuorašjávri, a mile east of Kautokeino municipality in Finnmark.

Odd Arne Hætta thought his dog Leo had found an elk, but it turned out to be something else entirely. Badgers are not common so far north but, sporadic cases have been observed in the past, including in Skibotn in Troms.

Tuomas Siilasjoki and Minna Näkkäläjärvi say they were taken by surprise when a mobile drill rig one day appeared in the horizon. Nobody had asked them about exploring for minerals inside their siida, a reindeer foraging area, in northern Finland.

Some try to be creative to avoid reindeer driveways. But this is not something the Norwegian Public Roads Administration wants.

Nils Thomas discovered "sinkhole" in the middle of Finnmarksvidda. Scientists have long warned against this, and now it happened.

Spring 2026 was reported as the warmest spring ever measured in Norway, with Northern Norway—especially Finnmark—driving the national average upward. The article notes record-breaking warmth on the Finnmark plateau and unusually early flowering already in April.

A resident in Kautokeino filmed what he first thought was a mouse, which turned out to be a small bat. A researcher says such a sighting this far north is rare and that the finder was lucky.