“This is a crazy approach,” says Jón Karl Ólafsson, former CEO of Icelandair, referring to demands by Icelandair aircraft mechanics, who have voted to call an indefinite strike beginning September 23.

A fire has broken out at Toppstöðin in Elliðaárdalur, with thick smoke visible rising into the air.

The main hearing in the Kársnes homicide case has been postponed by two weeks and is now scheduled to begin on September 29. It had previously been scheduled to begin today and last four days.

Ville Cantell, Finland’s ambassador to Iceland, says he is excited about greater cooperation with Iceland in the field of defense and stronger trade ties between the two countries.

“It was a good experience at the cinema,” says eider farmer Ólafur Aðalsteinsson, who this week attended the premiere of the documentary Birds (and Men), in which he plays a major role alongside his close friend Albert Haukur Gunnarsson, who...

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 editor Aðalsteinn Kjartansson, and Grapevine friend and cont...

Driving through a deliberately out-of-focus countryside, an old man in a wool sweater tells his adult son that “you don’t know what you got until it’s gone.” The implication being that the son, who is pondering voting for EU talks, would regr...

Produced and recorded entirely from the bedroom, Una Mist released her debut album KUÐUNGUR on September 1. Glitchy electronics, introspective lyrics and a DIY attitude. More and more young artists mix and produce on their laptop at home, instead of...

On September 10, 2026, RÚV reported that Bjarni Benediktsson received a telephone call from President Elect Donald Trump stating an intent to make Iceland a 51st US state. We have reported that here. For contact, here is a detailed history of Bjarni...

The EU referendum is over; now it’s time for the hangover. And this nastiest of campaigns has exposed critical financial regulation oversight that the government failed to address. On August 12th, less than three weeks before the vote, Minister of ...