"I am very happy with the decicion of the board on Isavia to put Icelandic first," says Lilja Dögg Alfreðsdóttir Minister of Tourism, Trade and Culture and adds that it was about time.

Hlaðgerður Snæbjörnsdóttir and Svanhildur Snæbjörnsdóttir are twins. They are celebrating their 100th birthay today. No Icelandic twins have reached the great age of becoming 100 years old before in this country so they are the oldest twin...

The glacial flood in Grímsvötn in Vatnajökull continues and now it is estimated that the water coming from Grímsvötn isover 350 square meters per second.

The wife of the man who was stabbed to death in Ólafsfjörður last week is under the suspicion of having stabbed him with a knife last March. The Northeast Iceland police have a few other instances under scrutiny where the couple had been physic...

A driver lost control of his car on the ice roads this morning when driving downtown and it resulted in the nose of the car going into the city pond Tjörnin in Reykjavík.

Sigvaldi Jóhannesson also known as Chef Silli came in second in a competition for the best street food in Europe in Munich in Germany last weekend. This summer he won the preliminary competition here in Iceland that qualified him for the main com...

Just over 19 thousand people got vaccinated in two weeks in Laugardalshöll, in a special effort to get to people 60 years and older which ended last week. The effort was very successful and people were happy with the service according to The Heal...

It is hard to say whether a glacial flood has started in Grímsvötn in Vatnajökull and detectors will probably not show definitive signs until tomorrow when it is estimated that the possible flood has reached its maximum, according to Salóme J�...

The Metropolitan police released two men from custody today who were apprehended this weekend on the suspicion of having killed a woman in Laugardalur in Reykjavík.

The American orthodontist Richard Burns and his wife Cindy waited for eight years before they were able to go on a cruise with North Sailing to Scoresby Sund in eastern Greenland. They went on the trip this August with a group of ten people and Bu...

The duo Sycamore Tree released a new album today called Colors. In the band are Gunni Hilmars and Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir, and the album has been in the works for three years.

The investigation into the death of a man in Ólafsfjörður last Monday is going well according to an announcement from the Police North East. The investigation at the scene is finished and now the data is being analyzed. Furthermore, both suspec...

Rescue teams all over the country are now on standby because the first snowstorm is forecast for Sunday and supposed to last until Monday morning.

A part of a dinosaur skeleton could be on its way to Reykjavík according to an announcement on the city's website. The skeleton would be a gift and are said to be approximately 65 million years old.

Today the Reykjavík District Court extended the custody for two weeks of one individual who has been held on the suspicion of planning a terrorist attack. The ruling has already been appealed to the National Court by the man's defense attorne...

The popularity of tattoos have been on the rise in the last ten years. The rise has been 9% since 2018 and now 29% of Icelanders sport a tattoo, whereas there were 20% in 2018 according to a recent survey by Gallup.

Approximately half of Icelandic Fire Departments do not meet the requirements for the job when it comes to smoke diving and fighting fire indoors, whether it be because of lack of equipment, training, education or the set standard for fire fighter...

The Central Bank of Iceland raised the Bank’s interest rates by 0.25 percentage points this morning. The Bank’s key interest rate on seven-day term deposits is now 5.75%. According to an announcement from the bank the hikes in key interest ra...

Two women and one man were remanded to a week long custody last night in relation to the murder in Ólafsfjörður. They went in front of a judge in the North East District Court in Akureyri where the police recommendations of custody was confirme...

Iceland is scoring high in international comparison when the topic is digital service and infrastructure. This is reported in an announcement from the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs where there is furthermore the latest E-Government Surv...