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Wed, 07 Sep 2022 06:30:00 +0000
A man fly fishing in East-Rangá got an electrical shock
The police in the southern part of Iceland reports that the police and ambulance were called to the Health Inistitution of South Iceland in Hvolsvöllur just after 10:30 AM yesterday morning because of a man who had been fly fishing in East-Rangá...

Tue, 06 Sep 2022 18:00:00 +0000
Walk to school campaigns starts tomorrow at 8:45 AM
The National and Olympic Sports Association of Iceland will start the campaign Walk to School tomorrow morning at 8:45 AM in Melaskóli in the western part of Reykjavík. This is the 16th time Iceland has been a part of this international campaign...

Tue, 06 Sep 2022 11:00:00 +0000
The chocolate covered liquorice war
The statements of the danish liquorice producer Johan Bülow that he was the one who invented chocolate covered liquorice are "pure nonsense" according to the managing director of Sambó Kólus candy producers.

Tue, 06 Sep 2022 06:30:00 +0000
Rising sea levels a pending problem
Sig­urður Ingi Jó­hanns­son the Minister of Infrastructure says that rising sea levels are alarming and that Icelanders need to tackle this problem to secure the coastline. That would be a massive undertaking.

Mon, 05 Sep 2022 14:15:00 +0000
50-100 litre oil spill when a truck capsized near Reykjavík
It is estimated that around 50-100 litres of oil spilled into the ground when an Eimskip cargo truck capsized just by the exit to Waldorfsskóli.

Sun, 04 Sep 2022 13:35:00 +0000
North has been fully booked since it opened
Recently the restaurant North opened in Akureyri, and it is the brainchild of Gunnar Karl Gíslason, masterchef and then some, but he is the man behind the Michelin restaurant Dill in Reykjavík. As it would be expected by Gunnar Karl and his team...

Sat, 03 Sep 2022 08:00:00 +0000
Sold out too fast for mom to get her garlic
For the last two years there has been an experimental harvesting of garlic in Austur-Landeyjar and they have been trying a few types of garlic. Last year the farmer Hörður Bender in Efri-Úlfsstaðir harvested one ton of fresh garlic which went ...

Fri, 02 Sep 2022 14:30:00 +0000
A third of women in Iceland been harrassed at their workplace
A third of women in Iceland have been sexually harassed at their workplace or have been subjected to violence in their lives. The findings come from a massive research project called Saga Cohort, which documents the impact of stressful life events...

Fri, 02 Sep 2022 08:00:00 +0000
More customers getting indexed mortgages
The key interest rate of the Central Bank has gone up 3.5 percentage points this year. Una Jónsdóttir, the director of the economics department of Landsbanki says to Morgunblaðið that more people are taking indexed loans because of this rise i...

Thu, 01 Sep 2022 12:00:00 +0000
Raising money for the family
Fundraising has started for the family of Eva Hrund Pétursdóttir who died in the shooting attack in Blönduós on 21st of August.

Thu, 01 Sep 2022 09:30:00 +0000
Never more overnight stays than this July
The total number of overnight stays in Icelandic hotels and other accommodation for tourists have never been more than last July, or 1,550,600. This means that every night there were 50 thousand guests staying overnight in Iceland in the month of ...

Wed, 31 Aug 2022 13:30:00 +0000
Nine days of gathering sheep starts today
Now when fall is upon us the round up of sheep is being prepared all over the country. Few areas in Iceland need longer time to gether their sheep than the farmers in Gnúpverjaafréttur, but the area they need to cover goes all the way from Þjó...

Wed, 31 Aug 2022 10:00:00 +0000
Looking into amending the laws regarding theft of wages
Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson the Minister of Social Affairs and Labour says the ministry is looking into changing the laws regarding theft of wages.

Tue, 30 Aug 2022 14:00:00 +0000
The supply of apartments for sale rising
The supply of apartments for sale in the Reykjavík area has gone up 45% in just one month. Now there are 1,013 apartments for sale in the area, but at the end of July there were only 700 for sale.The lowest supply was at the beginning of February...

Tue, 30 Aug 2022 10:38:00 +0000
Has gained consciousness and giving his account of the attack
The police planned to document a report from Kári Kárason at the hospital yesterday, but he has gained consciousness after being shot in Blönduós over a week ago. Páley Borgþórsdóttir, a policeofficer in Northeast confirmed this in talking...

Mon, 29 Aug 2022 17:00:00 +0000
Designed a special necklace for Katy Perry
Guðbjörg Ingvars­dótt­ir, a jewellery designer at Aur­um, presented an especially designed necklace for the famous singer, Katy Perry on Saturday. The singer was in Iceland to give the Norwegian Cruise Line ship, Norwegian Prima, its name at...

Mon, 29 Aug 2022 12:00:00 +0000
The Meradalir eruption is over
Even though the Met Office has not published an announcement stating that the Meradalir eruption if over, scientists think that will happen soon.

Mon, 29 Aug 2022 08:00:00 +0000
A polar bear turned out to be a gray seal
The Coast Guard helicopter was called out yesterday because of suspicion of a polar bear having reached land in Hornstrandir. The helicopter flew to the Westfjords but returned after not finding any signs of polar bears in the area.

Sun, 28 Aug 2022 12:32:00 +0000
Svartaborg Luxury Villas get rave reviews
Svartaborg Luxury Villas in the North gets raving reviews in the American travel magazine Condé Nast Traveler. The journalist Erika Owen writes that Svartaborg is her all time favourite Icelandic Airbnb venue in Iceland.

Sat, 27 Aug 2022 13:26:00 +0000
Suing the Icelandic government for 120 million ISK in two different cases
The writer Hrafn Jökulsson has filed two cases for the District Court of Reykjavík against a few ministers as representatives of the Icelandic government. In total, he is demanding just over 120 million ISK. Jökulsson was diagnosed recently wit...



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