Around 1,500 horses were gathered at Laufskálarétt in North Iceland on Saturday, with hundreds of riders taking part in the annual horse roundup.

Reykjanesbraut will be closed to northbound traffic tonight and tomorrow night, as well as overnight into Monday and Tuesday, from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m. due to milling and paving work.

Average advertised rents per square metre were 9.3% higher last week than the average rent in new leases registered with the Housing and Construction Authority (HMS) in August, according to an analysis by the Icelandic Tenants’ Association based...

“This is a dark story that takes us into the world of people who become drawn into the darker corners of the internet and then act on their twisted impulses. We wanted nature to play a prominent role, along with both the past and the present.”...

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 ...

For most of its history, Iceland’s food delivery system was a pizza place and a cousin with a car. Then, in May 2023, a Finnish company in a very particular shade of blue arrived and announced that KFC could come to your door, and I have been part ...

On Wednesday, 23 September, the Icelandic Aircraft Mechanics Association (FVFÍ) began a strike, which disrupted Icelandair’s flight schedule significantly, affecting 26 flights and 5,500 passengers. During the morning of the same day Eyjólfur Ár...

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...