Leon Alexander, a 13-year-old from Garðabær, has interests that set him apart from many of his peers. He spends all his free time learning Chinese, practising Chinese martial arts and the Chinese art of face-changing, and introducing Iceland to ...

A rare vagrant bird was spotted in the Westman Islands for the first time yesterday. The bird, a cattle egret, has been recorded in Iceland several times since the turn of the century, despite being native to tropical regions and warmer parts of E...

Police in the Westfjords discovered dozens of fully grown cannabis plants during a search of a home in Bolungarvík on Wednesday.

Families in Iceland owed an average of ISK 14.7 million in 2025, a nominal increase of 3.5% from the previous year.

A meeting in the labour dispute between Icelandair and its aircraft mechanics will begin at the State Mediator’s office at 10 a.m. today, after the two sides reached an agreement to call off the strike and spend the next four weeks trying to rea...

For one night in August, a glittering combination of fame, politics, and academics filled Háskólabíó. Executives from National Geographic, a subsidiary of Walt Disney, looked impressed. The president, Halla Tómasdóttir, brought an official air ...

As an editor, I frequent Reykjavík Record Shop, and I have repeatedly interviewed Jóhann Ágúst Jóhannsson, but never successfully. Instead, we get distracted. This week, we spent half an hour talking about Arnar Eggert’s writing, for example. ...

In this episode of The Drop-In, hosts Bart Cameron and Jón Trausti Sigurðarson sit down with Montreal-based photojournalist, artist, and multimedia storyteller G. Scott MacLeod. They discuss Scott's career capturing iconic rock musicians and politi...

Ninety years after the famous French scientist and explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot sailed out of Reykjavík harbour for the last time, his great-granddaughter returns to Iceland.

I have lived in Iceland for years and never seen a glíma match. Glíma is the oldest sport in the country, we’re told, practised since settlement. There’s a national championship that has run since 1906 and has a special code of honour. It is on...