During the main hearing in the Höfðatorg case at Reykjavík District Court today, the prosecutor showed video footage in which a Land Rover can be seen being driven at high speed into a man in the parking garage beneath Höfðatorg.

Individuals will pay ISK 3.1 billion more in income tax in 2027 than they otherwise would have if the government had not decided to suspend the so-called productivity adjustment for next year.

Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir says she realizes that some people are unhappy with individual revenue and expenditure items in the budget bill, but that no one benefits from the country continuing to run a deficit and paying ISK 150 billio...

Foreign Minister Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir and Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir strongly criticized a social media post by U.S. President Donald Trump yesterday in which he depicted Iceland, Greenland, Canada, Mexico and other count...

Today, winds will be fairly light from the southwest or variable, and sunshine is expected across the country. Winds are expected to pick up in the northwest later in the day, while cloud will increase over western Iceland this evening. Temperatur...

“A new chapter in Iceland’s bathing experience has begun,” says Jóhanna Hreiðarsdóttir, managing director of Reykjaböðin, a new geothermal bathing lagoon at the foot of Reykjadalur in Hveragerði, which opened last Saturday.

Harvesting is now beginning on farms in South Iceland following a lush and favorable summer. At Böðmóðsstaðir in Laugardalur, Bláskógabyggð, Styrmir Snær Jónsson has 3.5 hectares devoted to carrot cultivation and expects to harvest aroun...

Hellisheiði will be closed to eastbound traffic for six hours tomorrow, Tuesday, September 8, due to road resurfacing work.

Strong northerly winds are forecast in the southeast of the country today, with gusts of around 30 m/s, particularly from Öræfi eastwards to Höfn.

Between 2020 and 2025, there were 525 cases in which inmates were found to have used drugs at Litla-Hraun prison, with a further 57 such cases reported at Hólmsheiði prison.

Einar Þorsteinsson, chairman of the Reykjavík City Executive Council, says Reykjavík’s decision to close facilities at the caravan settlement on Sævarhöfði was made at the request of the fire department.

Plans for further development of the Skálafell ski area may be in doubt after the Capital Area Ski Areas Cooperation Committee recently agreed to examine whether there are grounds to review a 2018 agreement on development of the area.

Every autumn, the National Museum of Iceland celebrates the Icelandic national costume with a festival, and this weekend’s National Costume Festival is particularly exciting because of the exhibition A Story in the Luggage – The Bridal Costume...

The majority parties on Reykjavík City Council, the Independence Party, the Progressive Party and the Liberal Reform Party, approved changes to parking fees in downtown Reykjavík and other parking-related matters at a meeting of the City Executi...

Vilhjálmur Birgisson, chairman of the Federation of General and Special Workers in Iceland, welcomes IKEA’s decision to lower the prices of more than 1,000 products, in some cases by 30%.

“In my view, this is an effort by the union to reverse the concession made in 2020,” a Morgunblaðið source from the aviation industry tells the newspaper, when asked for his opinion on the results of a survey conducted among Icelandair pilot...

Halla Gunnarsdóttir, chair of VR, says the framework for the upcoming wage negotiations was discussed at a meeting between the Confederation of Icelandic Enterprise (SA) and VR that concluded a short while ago.

Runólfur Ólafsson, managing director of the Icelandic Automobile Association (FÍB), says he is still holding out hope that the government will once again lower VAT on fuel.

Sam Large, the mother of Hannah Jane Large, who died in a car crash on Krýsuvíkurvegur in the early hours of Monday, has thanked Halla Tómasdóttir, President of Iceland, for her kind words in a Facebook post.

Police arrested a man last night in connection with a fire in a building at Laugavegur 16, where two people were taken to the emergency department at Landspítali hospital on suspicion of smoke inhalation.