Guðlaug­ur Þór Þórðar­son the Minister of the Environment, Energy and Climate and Peter Hultqvist the Defense Minister of Sweded signed a mutual agreement about the cooperation of Iceland and Sweden in security and defense matters.

The Financial Stability Committee of the Central Bank of Iceland has decided to lower the maximum mortage rate for first time buyers from 90% to 85%. The mortage rate will still be 90% for other buyers.

An earthquake at the size of 3.9 M hit last night around 1 AM last night north of Grindavík on the Reykjanes peninsula. The Icelandic Met Office got news about people feeling the earthquake

"I think I can talk for all guides in the country when I say that I am mortified over the death that occurred in Reynisfjara Black Beach last weekend," says Friðrik Rafnsson the chairman of Leiðsögn, the union of Icelandic guides.

"It is obvious that the same feeling of support that fishermen and the fishing industry had in the year 1938 when the Fisherman's Day was celebrated for the first time still prevailsl," says Aríel Pétursson, chairman of the Fisherman...

Rescue teams from the Southern part of Iceland and the Westman Islands were called out last Friday because of an accident in Reynisfjara Black Beach just before five o‘clock.

The photographer Kári Sverriss wanted to be like his parents from an early age. They were prominent in the Icelandic fashion world and were living the life. Before he came out of the closet he had two children and followed his dreams by going to ...

Niceair has had to cancel all flights to London in June because of problems with legal issues having to do with Brexit and EU and Iceland. There won't be any flights to England until a permanent solutionhas been found to the problem.

Six NATO warhips arrived at Reykjavik airport yesterday because of a scheduled exercise that will take place on the 13th of June in the sea between Norway and Iceland.

The suspects, arrested in relation to the big drug bust cases that were reported yesterday, were all Icelandic men, and mostly in their forties, although there was quite a wide age gap between the youngest and the oldest, according to Grímur Grí...

Police seized drugs and materials for drug production for 1.7 billion ISK after an investigation that has been ongoing for the last few months.

It looks like the first cases of monkeypox were diagnosed yesterday in Iceland. Two middle aged men were diagnosed with monkeypox in a test in Iceland, and their tests will be sent abroad as soon as possible to confirm the diagnosis. This is repor...

The man who died last Saturday in Bardavogur because of head injuries was Gylfi Bergmann Heimisson. He was born in 1975 and leaves behind four children aged 2 to 24 years old. His notice of passing was published in Morgunblaðið today.

The Waves reached the shore of France at 19:44 last night after swimming for sixteen hours and four minutes in the English Channel.

A car was driven into a cyclist in Laugavegur Saturday night around 8:30 PM. According to witnesses the driver of the car had been stepping on the gas and honking before he drove into the cyclist.

The sea swimming group The Waves started their swim through the English Channel last night at 4:00 AM.

Today at 3 o’clock PM a new City Council will be announced in a press conference as well as their new issue agreement. The Progressive Party, with The Social Democratic Alliance, The Pirate Party and the Reform Party have been in talks for over ...

A man in his 20s was taken into custody Saturday night and will be until the 1st of July while the police is investigating a murder that happened in the eastern part of Reykjavik last Saturday night.

There were 64 competitors from ten countries that participated in the EFSA European Species Championship (Cod and Coalfish) in sea fishing that took place in Ólafsvík on the 27.-28th of May.

The Icelandic film Godland was premiered at the Film Festival in Cannes and was very well received. The audience gave a standing ovation and the end of the premiere and critics have given the film their best scores to date.