Candidate lists, rail delays and emergency response

The latest Trøndelag / Trondheim news from the past forty-eight hours concerns changes to the county’s candidate lists, rail services north of Stjørdal, and simultaneous roadworks. Two emergency responses — the evacuation of Oppdal videregående school (a municipality in southern Trøndelag) on Thursday and the diversion of a Widerøe flight to Bodø — mobilised emergency services without causing injuries (NRK Trøndelag / Trondheim, Adresseavisen). The news briefs recorded in the county are grouped at the end of the article.

Trøndelag / Trondheim News: reshuffled lead candidates

Adresseavisen reports, in its Thursday 5 November edition at 22:00, that several personalities have been placed at the top of the list in Trøndelag following a series of party switches («partibytter»). The regional newspaper devotes its evening article to these party affiliations, which change the order of the lead candidates in the county (Adresseavisen, 5 November, 22:00).

Economically, NRK Trøndelag’s Midtnytt bulletin reports that Christmas shopping has begun in the region; the regional newsroom devoted a story to the start of the trading season (NRK Trøndelag / Trondheim).

Transport: two trains per hour, but not north of Stjørdal

Rail services are being debated in the northern part of the county. On Thursday evening, Adresseavisen highlighted users’ finding that the two-trains-per-hour frequency does not apply north of Stjørdal (Adresseavisen, 5 November, 21:00). The regional newspaper devoted an article to this difference in service between the section served around Trondheim and the northern part of Trøndelag.

On the road, the same newspaper reports queues because construction work is taking place on the E6 and the “old E6” at the same time (Adresseavisen, 5 November, 21:00). The coincidence of the two construction sites causes delays for motorists in the area.

In the air, a Widerøe aircraft departing Trondheim for Mo i Rana was unable to deploy its landing gear and was diverted to Bodø (NRK Trøndelag / Trondheim). “We are fully mobilised and ready,” Avinor spokesperson Ylva Celius Trulsen said, adding that firefighters were in position to receive the aircraft. Norwegian’s (Widerøe’s parent company) press manager, Catharina Solli, said the landing gear was eventually able to be lowered; the aircraft landed normally at Bodø Airport at 19:15.

School: evacuation in Oppdal and announced reform

At 13:40 on Thursday, emergency services received a report after a bottle containing a chemical that had dried out was discovered in the chemistry laboratory at Oppdal videregående school (NRK Trøndelag / Trondheim). “When dry, the substance can become explosive,” said operations manager Einar Røstum of the Trøndelag Police District. The substance in question is dinitrophenylhydrazine.

Pupils and staff were evacuated, the school was closed and locked down, and a perimeter was established. “There is no risk of an explosion as long as the bottle remains still,” Einar Røstum said, adding at 16:00 that the site was being inspected. A specialist company was expected to arrive in the evening to remove the substance.

On the educational front, NRK’s Midtnytt bulletin (NRK) also announces changes for secondary schools in the county (NRK Trøndelag / Trondheim).

📌 Local briefs

A grenade, probably of the BK type, was found under the lawn of a property in Kroppanmarka, Trondheim, on Wednesday at around 13:00, during sewerage network replacement work; the work was halted and support from the armed forces was requested (NRK Trøndelag / Trondheim).

During the night, police attempted to stop a vehicle on Sørsidevegen in Overhalla (a municipality north of Steinkjer); the driver continued towards Namsos and then onto county road 17 before being stopped by two patrol cars just before Korsen, on the road to Namdalseid (a village between Steinkjer and Namsos), after driving over a spiked barrier (NRK Trøndelag / Trondheim). Two men in their twenties were arrested; several empty diesel canisters were found in the car. The driver is reported for refusing to obey a police order, speeding and dangerous driving, and his licence was revoked. No one was injured, and there is no suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs.

The Frostating Court of Appeal will examine Jørn Andersen’s appeal on 15 December regarding the sentence imposed on Jørn Andersen, who was convicted in the district court of Trøndelag to 21 years of preventive imprisonment for the murder of Marita Løfshus Haugen (NRK Trøndelag / Trondheim).

A Trøndelag hunter shot an elk with 24 antlers, a first for him after 26 years of hunting, according to NRK Trøndelag / Trondheim. Adresseavisen also revisits the case of Hege, 28, who was told that a growth was not dangerous, only for the condition to spread the following year (Adresseavisen, 5 November, 20:00).

Sources: NRK Trøndelag / Trondheim, Adresseavisen, The Local Norway — Period: 05 November 2026 and 06 November 2026