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...

Bubbi Morthens filled Reykjavík’s Laugardalshöll arena twice over the weekend, while many more watched via livestream. Yet it nearly came to pass that his 70th birthday concerts would not happen at all.

A new study by an international team of geoscientists suggests that volcanic activity on Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula is being driven primarily by the long-term accumulation of stress along the boundary between the North American and Eurasian t...

The State Mediator has summoned representatives of both parties in the labor dispute between Icelandair pilots and the airline to a meeting at the mediator’s offices at 4:00 p.m. tomorrow, Monday. This was confirmed by State Mediator Ástráður...

A full schedule of events will take place in Reykjavík’s harbor area on Fishermen’s Day tomorrow, Sunday. A ceremony honoring seafarers will be held at Harpa Concert Hall, and the TM Family Run will begin at 10 a.m.

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...

In Andri Snær Magnason’s recent novella, Jötunsteinn, a man throws a stone at a Range Rover. This being Andri Snær, the stone is also Reykjavík. The book is an argument about beauty, or the loss of it, in a city being shrouded in black cladding...

Should Iceland’s National Poet, Jónas Hallgrímsson, Be Dug Up? Jónas Hallgrímsson was a poet and writer born in 1807. In 1845 he died after falling down a flight of stairs in Copenhagen whilst drunk. For the past 30 years, his birthday, 16 Nove...

Hildur Björnsdóttir was handed the keys to her new office as mayor of Reykjavík by the outgoing Mayor Heiða Björg Hilmisdóttir in a small ceremony at Reykjavík’s City Hall at 13:30 on 2 June. Heiða handed Hildur a portrait of Iceland’s fo...

This morning, a giant phallic rocket blew up in Florida, resulting in a spectacular explosion, 48 lost satellites, and mercifully no injuries. The offending company was Blue Origin, owned by Jeff Bezos, the symbol of the modern age’s intellectual a...