Nordlandsposten was a daily newspaper published in Bodø

Bodø

is a city and a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the Salten region.The city of Bodø was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 . Bodin was merged with Bodø on 1 January 1968. Skjerstad was merged with Bodø on 1 January 2005...

, Nordland

Nordland

is a county in Norway in the North Norway region, bordering Troms in the north, Nord-Trøndelag in the south, Norrbottens län in Sweden to the east, Västerbottens län to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. The county was formerly known as Nordlandene amt. The county administration is...

, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

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The newspaper was first published in 1862, and last published on 16 February 2002.

In autumn 2001, both Nordlands Framtid and Nordlandsposten were bought out by A-pressen

A-pressen

A-pressen is one of the three largest media companies in Norway and was established on May 27, 1948 with the name Norsk Arbeiderpresse . It got its present name in 1994...

 and Harstad Tidende-gruppen in order to start a new newspaper in Bodø, which would join the two together. The new newspaper, Avisa Nordland

Avisa Nordland

Avisa Nordland is a newspaper published in Bodø, Norway. It was established through a controversial merger of the two competing newspapers Nordlandsposten and Nordlands Framtid. In 2006, it had a circulation of about 24700 copies....

, was first published on 18 February 2002.