Fjalls­ár­lón Ice­berg Boat Tours recently added a new option in their services when they made it possible to stay on special houseboats in the lagoon, which can be used as sledges during winter.

The writer and filmmaker Sarah Thomas lived in Iceland for a decade and now she has written her memoirs from her stay in the Westfjords in the book The Raven's Nest that was published recently.

The interest of American tourists in Iceland is likely increasing since the American dollar has been gaining strenght agaist other currencies says Sigríður Dögg Guðmundsdóttir, a director with Visit Iceland.

Downtown Reykjavík is packed, especially the square Ingólfstorg, named after Ingólfur Arnarson, usally seen as the first nordic settler in Iceland. The reason why is that the Icelandic female football team is playing in the UEFA Women's EUR...

Iceland tops the list for the thirteenth year in a row when it comes to gender equality according to the World Economic Forum.

Two men, a father and a son, were saved this morning from a sinking boat in Breiðafjörður. The boat was leaking and the man got away to a near boat, and no later their boat was on its side halfway in the sea.

Halldóra Kristjánsdóttir's daughter was a victim of an attack outside of Þórufell 14 in Breiðholt in Reykjavík yesterday. She was threatened with a knife and then pushed to the ground. She managed to scream and get away from the assaila...

Vogue Scandinavia published recently an interesting list over the bars/restaurants that are the most interesting and stylish for happy hour or a drink after work. Most of the places have been popular in Iceland for years.

Almost third of all tourists in Iceland this June came from the United States is stated in an announcement from the Icelandic Tourist Board.

The Grandmasters Helgi Ólafsson and Jóhann Hjartarson are certain that the chess table that Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky used when playing the 7.-21st chess matches in the World Chess Championship, or what Icelanders call the Chessbattle of t...

Hörður Kristleifsson, who is a 23 year old photographer, has for quite a few years dreamt about capturing the perfect shot of the mountain Keilir in the Reykjanes peninsula. In his mind the perfect shot would be capturing the top of the mountain...

"The excitement is growing," said Ingibjörg María Guðmundsdóttir and Örn Torfason, the parents of Guðrún Arnardóttir who is a defender on the Icelandic National Women's team in football. The parents were talking to a sports'...

UEFA Women's Euro has started in England and the Icelandic national team is getting ready to play Belgium today at 4 PM. Ari Páll Kristinsson, a journalist at mbl.is, went downtown yesterday to see if pedestrians were up for a little football...

The police was called out yesterday when a man attempted to rob a drugstore on Laugavegur at 2:30 PM. The pharmacist Skúli Skúlason was working when the man burst into the drugstore and aimed the gun at him and other staff demanding to get drugs...

Hilmar Einarsson captured pictures of a humpback whale which had drifted to the shore by Hringsdalur in Arnarfjörður. He says he has never been aware of whales drifting on shore in these parts.

A nightbus will be back from downtown Reykjavík to different neighbourhoods in the Reykjavík area after a two year hiatus. The bus will run on weekends, Friday night and Saturday night, at least over the summer and it will start tonight after mi...

Today will be windy with the wind coming from the southwest and the west all over the country and people should keep their wits about them when travelling. Yellow warnings are in place for many areas in the country.

“There is nothing left,” says Birgir Haukdal Rúnarsson the owner of the boat Gosi KE-102 that caught fire this morning when the boat was two nautical miles north of Rif.

A member of the crew from the boat Gosi-KE who caught fire this morning not far from Rif this morning was saved when the fishing boat Diddi SH-159 came to his rescue just before 10 AM this morning in Breiðafjörður.

Rescue teams were called out twice last night just before 8 PM. One of the emergencies was because of a dog that had fallen off a cliff and the other one because of a motocycle accident. This information comes from an announcement from Landsbjörg...