American daredevil and BASE jumper Jack Propeck posted an astonishing video on Instagram yesterday showing himself jumping off Skógafoss waterfall with a parachute.

The former owners of a house on Austurvegur in Grindavík say they repeatedly asked the real estate company Þórkatla for permission to retrieve a hot tub that stood on a deck outside the house before it was demolished. Their requests were denied...

At the beginning of the year, there were 77,226 immigrants living in Iceland, accounting for 19.6% of the country's population.

The French Embassy in Iceland held a ceremony yesterday to honor the memory of the many French sailors who lost their lives off the coast of Iceland.

“This has, of course, been and remains a very difficult dispute. That is simply the reality,” said Ástráður Haraldsson, Iceland’s State Mediator, regarding the labor dispute between Icelandair and the Icelandic Pilots’ Association (FÍA...

I trust that you already have some murky idea of what ‘murky’ means. If water is murky, then it’s obscure or dark. You might feel hesitant about bathing in a murky pond. Someone might say, “I asked my wife where she’d been, but her answers ...

Born and raised in Mexico, Jose Luis Andervel has been kicking around the local arts scene since embarking on his studies at the Iceland University of Arts in 2018. One winter at a time, the 32-year-old singer songwriter initially grew accustomed to ...

“We had 10 to 15 minutes to prepare,” Tómas R. Einarsson tells us, as he begins to explain his extraordinary experience performing with Chet Baker in 1985. Tómas is fascinating, immensely talented, and exceedingly humble. We detail the ...

This week, The Reykjavík Grapevine’s Iceland Roundup brings you the top news with a healthy dash of local views. In this episode, Grapevine publisher Jón Trausti Sigurðarson is joined by Heimildin journalist Aðalsteinn Kjartansson, and Grap...

The lights were turned on just past one in the morning on election night. Fittingly, the Pirate Party had failed to anticipate the traditionally late arrival of numbers from the Reykjavík municipal elections and was unceremoniously being kicked out ...