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...

Iceland’s autumn weather appears to be catching some visitors to Reykjavík off guard, with several tourists seen being blown over by the strong winds sweeping through the city.

Yellow weather warnings are in effect across parts of Iceland today as strong easterly winds and heavy rain sweep the country.

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. ...

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...

Update: As noted in the Icelandic Stock Exchange, at 11:08 the Icelandic Aircraft Mechanics Association (FVFÍ) ended their strike. Icelandair flights are expected to resume.  The government met this morning to pass a law to require the Icelandic Ai...