Tinna Bessadóttir, a designer and event manager, accuses the municipality of Hafnarfjörður of taking over the Álfahátíð festival, which she says she created and developed from scratch.

Þverá/Kjarrá, Eystri-Rangá and Ytri-Rangá all passed the 2,000-salmon mark yesterday. Þverá/Kjarrá naturally stands out among the three, as it is a wild salmon river, while the other two rely entirely on the release of juvenile salmon.

The President of Iceland awarded pediatric cardiologist Stanton Perry the Order of the Falcon at Bessastaðir this week. He received the honor for his invaluable work on behalf of children with heart conditions in Iceland.

When the sun went dark the day before yesterday, the trawler Kaldbakur EA was fishing for cod and saithe on the Hali fishing grounds northwest of Iceland, directly in the path of totality. Conditions would undoubtedly have been ideal for the crew ...

Flatey Church is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, a special anniversary service will be held today, Friday, August 15.

In a sense, stepping into Kolaportið in the old customs building across the street from the harbour in Reykjavík is like a trip back in time, not just because of the antiques they sell, but because it harkens back to a slower, less fancy society. W...

Time and Water (Um tímann og vatnið) premieres on August 27 at Háskólabíó, in Icelandic with English subtitles. The next night it will be shown on a regular schedule at Bíó Paradís, which is serving as its local theatrical distributor. The f...

To live is to suffer. One way to deal with the pain is to find elaborate ways of expressing it. To take an example: it’s a little-known fact that the Danish language was designed to express the emotion of pain at all times; when the language is spo...

“It is getting a bit darker, but that could be the rain clouds,” my wife said as we stood with our kids in the Laugarneskirkja churchyard. The clouds did not part for Reykjavík during our once-in-600-years eclipse. In fact, it rained. And it was...

On August 12, 2026, Reykjavík was on the receiving end of a total eclipse. Inside the city limits, we received about 55 seconds of total eclipse 17:47. As one of many who gathered, it did indeed get dark, and quiet, during the eclipse. Like a bunch ...