Hafnarfjörður’s municipal council executive committee decided at its meeting yesterday not to raise general fees by more than 2.5% in 2027. It was decided that this would serve as a key benchmark in the municipality’s budget preparations, wh...

Bryndís Björnsdóttir, managing director of Laugarás Lagoon, says the planned increase in VAT on geothermal lagoons, from 11% to 24%, will prompt the company to reassess further development in Laugarás.

Petrol prices have surged over the past month, rising by as much as ISK 50 per litre.

“I couldn’t kill myself. That’s why I asked my husband to do it. But he failed, and so I’m still alive, unfortunately.”

Around 43% of Icelanders consider Sjónvarp Símans Premium the country’s best domestic streaming service, according to a new survey by Maskína. By comparison, 35.9% named RÚV and 17.8% chose Sýn+.

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...

We weren’t secretive about it. Coming into this spring, our paper was in rough shape. We lost our staff writers. We reached out for donations. We did some handwringing. Then, having lost our crossword writer, we turned to sheep. It turns out those ...

Economy in the dumps The so-called gúrkutíð, or silly season, is over and now we can start focusing on the truly depressing stuff: the economy. Recently Iceland has been bombarded with a flurry of grim economic news, and the Central Bank says ther...

Hidden in the basement of a historic building in downtown Reykjavík, Japanese cocktail bar ĒN is dark, intimate and seductive, a neon-lit meeting of Japanese cocktail craft and Icelandic imagination.

For archaeologists, Iceland has one enormous advantage over many other parts of the world: its volcanoes have left timestamps in the ground. Dig into Icelandic soil, or extract a core through it, and you will encounter bands of dark volcanic material...