Eyjólfur Ármannsson, Iceland’s Minister of Infrastructure, and Jón Gunnar Jónsson, Director General of the Icelandic Transport Authority, underwent a traditional “seafarer’s baptism” earlier today ahead of Seamen’s Day, which will be...

Earlier this week, a deed of gift transferring part of the Miðfell estate in Þingvallasveit to the Icelandic state was formally signed.

Member of Parliament Guðmundur Ingi Kristinsson criticized security screening procedures at Keflavík International Airport during a speech in Parliament.

The managing director of a tourism company in Patreksfjörður says the government’s decision to remove the ferry Baldur from service in the Westfjords demonstrates a lack of concern for the region and its residents. She warns that the consequen...

A negotiation meeting in the labor dispute between Icelandair and its pilots has been scheduled for tonight at 7 p.m. State Mediator Ástráður Haraldsson confirmed this in an interview with Morgunblaðið.

Stepping into Örlygur Kristfinnsson’s “Exhibition about a holy bird” at the Akureyri Art Museum feels more like climbing into the body of a seabird than entering a gallery. The room is dark, illuminated only by spotlights cast upon driftwood, ...

You know the rules. Name that sheep. Tell us the name of this specific sheep. Email us at sheep@grapevine.is. If you get the right name, and you’re in Iceland, you win a hot dog, made in part with sheep. One guess per email address please. Not in I...

Ask most people what they believe Icelanders used to eat in the past and you will often get the same answer: fermented shark, dried fish, and not much else. The popular image of historical Icelandic food is one of grim survival, monotony, and near st...

Keflavík International Airport is not where it is because anyone thought carefully about urban planning. It is where it is because the Americans needed a runway during the Cold War. The NATO forces left, mostly. The terminal stayed. Getting there fr...

I am shaking and close to crying the whole exhibition through, as I attend — together with half of Reykjavík —the opening of Björk’s new exhibition echolalia, presented alongside “sister exhibition’’ Metamorphlings by James Merry in the...