For the second year in a row, there will be no bonfires in Reykjavík and vicinity on New Year’s Eve.

The IKEA Christmas goat is installed in front of the IKEA store in Garðabær, south of Reykjavík, every October, as a symbol of the Christmas season.

Iceland Monitor wishes you a merry Christmas.

Tonight, Christmas Eve, is when Icelanders traditionally celebrate Christmas and exchange gifts.

It was an emotional moment when baby Arsalan arrived in Iceland Tuesday, after being separated from his mother for more than four months.

More than 500 new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in Iceland yesterday.

The national police commissioner, in consultation with the Suðurnes chief of police, has activated the uncertainty phase of the Department of Civil Protection and Emergency Management, due to the ongoing seismic activity near Fagradalsfjall mount...

A swarm of earthquakes that started around 5 pm yesterday is still affecting the Reykjanes peninsula, Southwest Iceland.

The Icelandic government has decided to enact tighter COVID-19 restrictions in face of an exponential rise in the number of new confirmed cases in recent days.

“The parents didn’t expect to see their child until possibly many years from now…Arsalan is this year’s Christmas child.”

The body of Almar Yngvi Garðarsson, a 29-year old man who had been missing since Sunday, was discovered in Hafnarfjörður harbor last night.

Extensive search is underway in Southwest Iceland for a 29-year-old man, Almar Yngvi Garðarsson, who has been missing since early Sunday morning.

Már Kristjánsson, head of Landspítali National University Hospital’s infectious diseases division, tells mbl.is that if the Omicron variant of the coronavirus spread as quickly in Iceland as in neighboring countries, we can expect to see 600 ...

An Icelandic woman has been charged with human trafficking.

The Icelandic Association for Search and Rescue (ICE-SAR) recently began selling Swiss watches in a fundraising effort.

The travel photography blog Capture the Atlas has just published its latest edition of the annual Northern Lights Photographer of the Year.

Yesterday afternoon, the shipping company Eimskipafélag Íslands (Eimskip) issued a statement through Nasdaq Iceland, saying the district prosecutor had received permission from court authorities to raid the company’s offices.

Close to 1,100 families will receive aid from the Mothers’ Aid Society of Reykjavík this Christmas season.

Freyja, the Icelandic Coast Guard’s newest ship, came to the rescue of the Greenlandic fishing vessel Masilik, when it ran aground 500 meters off the shore of Gerðistangi point on the Reykjanes peninsula.

N1, a company that owns numerous gas stations in Iceland, has stopped importing diesel B7 — a fuel with added biocomponents of up to seven percent — from Norway.