Icelanders’ decision to vote against restarting accession talks with the European Union has put an obstacle in the path of authorities in Brussels as they seek to become a major force in security and defense.

When Gunnhildur Gylfadóttir, a farmer in Svarfaðardalur, pulled up at the polling station in Dalvík on Saturday to cast her vote on whether to continue accession talks with the European Union, she attracted considerable attention, both for her ...

A serious traffic accident occurred on Krýsuvíkurvegur near Bláfjallavegur last night.

The US government says Iceland remains an important NATO ally and a close partner of the United States and Europe following the referendum on whether to restart accession talks with the European Union.

Icelandic voters have rejected restarting Iceland’s accession talks with the European Union.

The number of gyrfalcons in Northeast Iceland has increased by a third since last year, according to a survey conducted in a research area monitored by the Icelandic Institute of Natural History in the region. The area covers 5,300 square kilomete...

“This is a good day. We have now reached the point where this is in the hands of the nation. Either we enter these negotiations, seek a good agreement and then see what happens, or we put the discussion about the European Union aside, at least f...

“Iceland is at its most beautiful today,” economist and CEO Halldór Benjamín Þorbergsson told mbl.is outside Hagaskóli just moments ago.

According to a new Gallup poll, 51.6% intend to vote against continuing Iceland’s European Union accession talks, while 48.4% intend to vote in favor.

Halla Tómasdóttir, President of Iceland, remembers King Harald of Norway, who died early this morning, in a post on Instagram.

A new approach to buying property was presented at the autumn meeting of the Housing and Construction Authority yesterday morning, where the state of the housing market was the main focus.

The foreign tourist who fell into the Jökla river at Stuðlagil is reported by Polish media to have been a Polish citizen.

The Reykjavík Metropolitan Police Commissioner has charged Sema Erla Serdaroglu with violating laws on public fundraising.

Twelve-month inflation measures 5.6%, rising slightly from last month, when it stood at 5.3%.

The Reykjavík City Executive Council today approved a proposal from the mayor for extensive changes to the organizational structure of the Department of Welfare and the Department of Education and Recreation. The new organizational structures wil...

An earthquake swarm that occurred along the Reykjanes Ridge yesterday has ended. Around 200 earthquakes were recorded during the swarm.

Wages in Iceland are now among the highest in Europe and, indeed, among the highest more broadly.

An earthquake swarm has been ongoing on the Reykjanes Ridge since shortly after 3:30 a.m., when a magnitude 4.1 earthquake struck.

Divers found the body of a foreign tourist who fell into the Jökla river at Stuðlagil yesterday. The body was found shortly before 10 p.m., close to where he had fallen into the river.

Claudia Goldin, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences and the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University, will be one of two keynote speakers at a conference hosted by Reykjavík University’s Department of Business Admi...