“This has, of course, been and remains a very difficult dispute. That is simply the reality,” said Ástráður Haraldsson, Iceland’s State Mediator, regarding the labor dispute between Icelandair and the Icelandic Pilots’ Association (FÍA...

“I was diagnosed with smoldering myeloma two years ago, and that prompted me to get involved in advocacy and research related to the disease. This project in Iceland is a result of that,” says Eric Blackburn, an American veteran who served in ...

Foreign Minister Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir believes that Iceland’s membership in the European Union would have no impact on the 1951 bilateral defense agreement between Iceland and the United States.

Icelandair carried 464,000 passengers in May, a 4% increase compared with the same month last year. Of those passengers, 30% were traveling to Iceland, 19% from Iceland, 45% were connecting passengers, and 5% traveled on domestic routes.

The Icelandic Coast Guard, in close coordination with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs’ Defence Office and NATO military commands, is closely monitoring the movements of a Russian military vessel currently sailing outside Iceland’s 12-nautical...

“We had 10 to 15 minutes to prepare,” Tómas R. Einarsson tells us, as he begins to explain his extraordinary experience performing with Chet Baker in 1985. Tómas is fascinating, immensely talented, and exceedingly humble. We detail the ...

The lights were turned on just past one in the morning on election night. Fittingly, the Pirate Party had failed to anticipate the traditionally late arrival of numbers from the Reykjavík municipal elections and was unceremoniously being kicked out ...

“I remember going to Þingvellir as a child and attending the event there in 1994, but sadly not many times after except when showing tourists around. Therefore it was always in the back of my mind that it would be amazing to do a show there,”Jö...

We had a visitor at the editorial office, an old friend in the local music scene. He’s promoting a synthesiser he’s been designing with a small group of people for the past four years. It’s called LOVE synthesiser. It’s on pre-sale. It’s me...

The word for ship in Icelandic is skip. A stolid, dependable word. Say it with me, foreign devil: skip. Icelandic derives a rich vocabulary from this humble word. Skipulag, the word for organisation, can be directly translated as ship-arrangement. Th...