Optise has become the first Icelandic company to be selected for Startup Battlefield, the startup competition run by technology publication TechCrunch, in the competition’s 20-year history.

Hellisheiði has been reopened. The road was closed to eastbound traffic this morning following a three-car collision on the mountain pass.

A memorial service celebrating the life of Hannah Jane Large will be held at Áskirkja church on Saturday at 4 p.m.

Morgunblaðið has obtained documents showing that a number of foreign nationals come to Iceland and receive municipal financial assistance for years at a time. The assistance is intended as an emergency measure for people who are unable to suppor...

The Urriðaholt Sports Centre and its new swimming pool will open to the public tomorrow, according to an announcement from the municipality of Garðabær.

The board of the VR trade union has expressed serious concerns over the government’s budget bill, saying it significantly reduces the chances that collective agreements in the private sector will remain in force.

“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.