Run in the Dark takes place tomorrow, November 9th at 8 PM in Elliðaárdalur in Reykjavík, when the darkness of winter is coming. The founder of the run is the Irish outdoors enthusiast and adventurer Mark Pollock, who is blind and has suffered ...

There will be a lot going on in Harpa conference center when the Reykjavík Global Forum – Women Leaders starts today. This is the fifth time the conference is held here in Iceland but behind the project is the government of Iceland as well as m...

The celebrated slow food chef Gísli Matthías­ from Slippurinn in the Westman Islands will be hosting a pop-up at the Bryggjan in Ak­ureyri, where he will be showcasing the best of Slippurinn to locals in the north.

“To have an election like this against the chairman of the Independence Party is a very positive message. I’m very proud of that and proud of my supporters,” Guðlaugur Þór Þór Þórðarson told mbl.is reporter when the results came out ...

Bjarni Benediktsson, Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, got 59 percent of the votes for the leading position in the Independence Party whereas his challenger, Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson, the Minister of Environment, Energy and Climate, g...

“I started photographing birds seriously in 1999. I had always been interested in birds, but it had been laying dormant for quite some time. But at that time the interest just resurfaced and there was no turning back. When you spend hours and ho...

A lot of people made their way downtown Reykjavík last night in order to attend the first day of the Iceland Airwaves music Festival, which is held this weekend.

The final touches are being made in a brand new store for the Icelandic company 66°North, which will open at Regent Street in London at the end of November.

“This is a reckless increase in these property taxes. It’s very burdensome for Reykjavík businesses, absolutely,” says Ingólfur Bender, the chief economist of the Federation of Icelandic Industries (SI), but the budget for the next five ye...

Everything points to residential development being strong at this time and more apartments are expected on the market in the coming months and next years. There is a growing number of apartments under construction, and more apartments are under c...

Gudjón Valdimarsson, the father of National Police Chief, is alleged to have built and sold illegal semi-automatic rifles.

The Christian church Omega violated the Media Act by broadcasting foreign content without Icelandic subtitles on the television station Omega.

“I’d like to write more about one of the main characters,” the crime novelist Ragnar Jónsson says of a possible continued collaboration with the Prime Minister, Katrín Jakobsdóttir, but they just published their first project together, th...

The Norwegian aquaculture giant Mowi is planning to buy shares in Arctic Fish for 26 billion ISK. After the acquisition Mowi will be in control of 51.28% of Arctic Fish shares.

The American grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura won the Fischer Randcom Chess Tournament that ended Sunday night in Reykjavík. The winner of the final was Hikaru Nakamura, defeating Ian Nepomniachtchi in armageddon after drawing the match 2-2. He is the...

The ten full-time jobs of directors of Landspítali will be eliminated while the number of managers will increase from eight to eleven according to the new hospital’s organizational chart.

The exhibition rights for the animated TV series Tulipop Tales have already been sold to ten countries. Apart from Iceland, the TV seriesis already showing in Norway. In other countries, such as Finland, Canada, Poland, South Africa and the Middle...

The government has decided to support the creation of a memorial to the role of “herring girls” in the economic and employment of Icelandic women in the last century with 15 million ISK. The memorial will be placed on a specially built area at...

The reality star Jacques O'Neill is in Iceland with an entourage of influencers. O'Neill took part in the last season of the popular Love Island show and was in a relationship with Page Thorne.

The district attorney's office has charged four men in a major cocaine case first reported last August. One hundred kilos of cocaine were to be shipped to the country by shipment of timber from Brazil with a stopover in the Netherlands.