Tag: Bohuslän

  • Missing at sea

    Missing at sea

    On October 6, 2011, director Daniel Lind Lagerlöf disappears at the Tjurpannan nature reserve in Bohuslän. When the police end the search, the investigators determine that he fell into the water from slippery rocks and that it was all an accident. Finding the remains of another person But in the search, a strange find has…

  • The song giant Evert Taube – the poet and the time

    The song giant Evert Taube – the poet and the time

    This is part 3 of our series Visgiganten Evert Taube. The previous parts are below. It’s like wherever Evert was, he had to write and tell about it. An impressionist who in words and tone painted everything from Fritiof Andersson’s robust adventures to Rönnerdahl’s shimmering archipelago idyll. Pampas, Shanghai, Bohuslän and Stockholm’s archipelago, everything could…

  • Missing at sea

    Missing at sea

    On October 6, 2011, director Daniel Lind Lagerlöf disappears at Tjurpannan’s nature reserve in Bohuslän. When the police finish the search, the investigators determine that he fell into the water from slippery rocks and that it was all an accident. But in the search, a strange find has been made by a private person, living…

  • Viking kings and Roman merchants – Bohuslän’s history

    Viking kings and Roman merchants – Bohuslän’s history

    On Tryggö outside Smögen, the Viking king Tryggve Olavsson is buried in a mighty cairn that looks out over Skagerrack. Tobias Svanelid meets the archaeologist Tomas Andersson at the cairn to discuss the history of the current Bohuslän book, a story about a landscape that flourished during the Viking Age and the Middle Ages but…

  • SMHI warns of heavy thunder tonight

    SMHI warns of heavy thunder tonight

    SMHI has issued a class 1 warning for Bohuslän, Gothenburg and the Sjuhärad area during Thursday evening due to heavy rain and thunderstorms. Class 1 warning means that there may be extensive and frequent thunderstorms that cause major disruptions to electricity and telephone traffic. Locally, it can also mean very strong gusts and torrential rain.

  • Leaked recording reveals racism – all members are suspended

    Leaked recording reveals racism – all members are suspended

    All board members of the Tenants’ Association for Södra Bohuslän have been suspended from their positions of trust. This after a leaked audio recording from a board meeting in 2019, where several members expressed themselves grossly racist, reports GT. This is now to be investigated and in the meantime, the regional board’s working committee has…

  • Emmalena Andersson is the Construction Woman of the Year – “gives me strength”

    Emmalena Andersson is the Construction Woman of the Year – “gives me strength”

    The award “Building Woman of the Year” has been nominated for the first time, and the prize goes to the sheet metal worker and construction manager Emmalena Andersson from Uddevalla, something that Bohusläningen was the first to report. As a young woman in the construction industry, sexual harassment became everyday and in the end she…

  • Class 2 warning for heavy snowfall in several places

    Class 2 warning for heavy snowfall in several places

    A low pressure is approaching from the west – it can be difficult weather in parts of Sweden tomorrow. SMHI has issued a class 2 warning for snowfall and heavy drift in Värmland, Dalsland and Norra Bohuslän. According to SMHI, around 15 centimeters of snow is expected in the area. In addition, there is a…

  • Cake queen Birgitta Rasmusson has died – turned 81 years old

    Cake queen Birgitta Rasmusson has died – turned 81 years old

    The cake queen and the whole of Sweden Bakar profile Birgitta Rasmusson is dead, a family member confirms to Bohusläningen. Birgitta Rasmusson is from Ljungskile and turned 81 years old. She died after a time in hospital.

  • Criminal case piled up – Uddevalla worst in the country

    Criminal case piled up – Uddevalla worst in the country

    Cases to Sweden’s district courts are piled up. And of the country’s 48 district courts, it is the worst in Uddevalla, this reports Bohusläningen. During the last twelve months, Uddevalla District Court had had 1,054 criminal cases piled up pending being decided. In legal parlance, this intermediate position is called a goal in balance. The…

  • Right now

    Right now

    The rescue service is struggling with a suspected arson, in the old cannery in Lysekil since late Wednesday night. Five stations with about 40 firefighters, three altitude vehicles and the coast guard have been on site to try to put out the fire. “We believe that it is extremely risky to stay close to the…

  • Triple oil spills eludes authorities: “A mystery”

    Triple oil spills eludes authorities: “A mystery”

    In the past month, three oil spills have been discovered in Byfjorden in Uddevalla. The latest as late as Sunday. Despite the fact that both the Coast Guard and the rescue service have been looking for the cause of the leaks, it has not been found. Two of the emissions are investigated as suspected environmental…

  • 200 can lose their jobs in border shops

    200 can lose their jobs in border shops

    Around 200 employees are now being notified of redundancies at one of the largest grocery chain chains on the border with Norway in Bohuslän. The company Grensemat is now notifying another 200 employees of redundancies. The company has previously laid off 96 employees and if the new notice is implemented, around 50 people will remain…