“Events like these are organised over four or five days, and this time five days were set aside. The aim was to set two records in two different categories, one involving two separate formations in the same jump and the other three.”

Changes to the Health Insurance Act approved by Althingi on June 1 mean, among other things, that from January 1, individuals travelling to countries outside the EEA will no longer be insured for costs they may incur as a result of illness or acci...

Halla Tómasdóttir, President of Iceland, attended the funeral of King Harald V of Norway yesterday.

Orkuveitan is preparing experimental drilling at Nesjavellir using a method that could make geothermal energy production possible in areas previously considered unsuitable for power generation. It could also produce several times more power from i...

The performance of children in Iceland has, taken as a whole, declined more since 2015 than in any of the more than 70 countries or territories included in a new OECD PISA comparison.

All Icelandair flights to London are operating according to schedule, although some delays could occur due to conditions at the city’s airports.

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...