Editing Kautokeino Municipality (section)

==== 2000-2009 ====

* On Friday, 21 January 2000, the verdict is given in the case where the state has filed a lawsuit to have parish priest Olav Berg Lyngmo dismissed. The state loses the case in the district court, and the parish priest keeps his job.<ref name="ReferenceB" /> Newly appointed Church Minister [[Trond Giske]] decides on 21 March that the state will appeal the verdict where parish priest Olav Berg Lyngmo is allowed to keep his job as parish priest in Kautokeino.
* On Thursday, 7 September 2000, the new health center in Kautokeino is officially opened. The health center cost 50 million kroner in 2000, equivalent to 81 million kroner in 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nasjonalbiblioteket |url=https://www.nb.no/items/c9b79a75eceb453922263a92cf919698?page=1&searchText=%22helsesenteret%22 |access-date=4 May 2023 |website=www.nb.no}}</ref><ref name="Priskalkulator" />
* On Friday, 12 January 2001, the verdict is given in the Court of Appeals where the state has appealed the district court's decision that parish priest Olav Berg Lyngmo can keep his job. The state wins the appeal case. The verdict in the Court of Appeals is unanimous, and the parish priest is stripped of his job and must additionally pay his own and the state's legal costs in the appellate court.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nasjonalbiblioteket |url=https://www.nb.no/items/14239fbaf5df8ed95a391afe0a5cdcb2?page=5&searchText=%22olav%20berg%20lyngmo%22 |access-date=4 May 2023 |website=www.nb.no}}</ref>
* At the end of May 2001, it becomes clear that the Supreme Court Appeals Selection Committee rejects the appeal from parish priest Olav Berg Lyngmo, so the dismissal verdict where he is stripped of his office as parish priest becomes final and legally binding.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nasjonalbiblioteket |url=https://www.nb.no/items/d2f2526ed96add0c943d6404f377a456?page=5&searchText=%22olav%20berg%20lyngmo%22 |access-date=4 May 2023 |website=www.nb.no}}</ref>
* Mail in Store opens on Monday, 3 June 2002, in Coop Prix's premises. The post office is closed.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nasjonalbiblioteket |url=https://www.nb.no/items/df1293d9294f6a1fc860b2e80f2f3358?page=9&searchText=%22post%20i%20butikk%22 |access-date=4 May 2023 |website=www.nb.no}}</ref>
* On 5 December 2002, the wine monopoly opens in Kautokeino.
* Nordlandia hotel in Kautokeino burns down on 15 July 2003 and is completely destroyed. No persons were hurt in the fire.<ref>{{Cite web |last=NRK |date=15 July 2003 |title=Evakuert fra brennende hotell |url=https://www.nrk.no/tromsogfinnmark/evakuert-fra-brennende-hotell-1.108793 |access-date=4 May 2023 |website=NRK |language=nb-NO}}</ref>
* The population of the municipality falls again below 3,000, with 2,997 inhabitants as of 1 January 2005<ref>{{Cite web |title=06913: Endringer i kommuner, fylker og hele landets befolkning (K) 1951 - 2023. Statistikkbanken |url=https://www.ssb.no/system/ |access-date=4 May 2023 |website=SSB |language=no}}</ref>
* [[King Harald V|King Harald]] lays the foundation stone for the Sami Science Building / [[Diehtosiida]] in 2007.<ref>{{Cite web |date=19 June 2009 |title=Samisk Vitenskapsbygg - Diehtosiida |url=https://www.bygg.no/article/45067!/ |access-date=4 May 2023 |website=www.bygg.no |language=no}}</ref>
* Thon opens a new hotel in Kautokeino in 2008.<ref>{{Cite web |date=27 August 2008 |title=Thon Hotel Kautokeino |url=https://www.bygg.no/thon-hotel-kautokeino/35782!/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=27 December 2008 |title=11 nye hotell i Norge i år: Hotellboom-året |url=https://www.vg.no/i/3j1x0M |access-date=4 May 2023 |website=www.vg.no |language=nb}}</ref>
* The Sami College moves into a new building, [[Diehtosiida]] in 2009.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pulk |first=Åse |date=17 April 2009 |title=Flytter inn i nytt vitenskapsbygg |url=https://www.nrk.no/sapmi/flytter-inn-i-nytt-vitenskapsbygg-1.6570714 |access-date=4 May 2023 |website=NRK |language=nb-NO}}</ref>