If you’re visiting Iceland, or if you recently moved here, pay close attention to how the nation behaves tonight.

When the residents of Akureyri, North Iceland, got ready to go to work yesterday morning, they had trouble finding their cars.

New Year’s Eve is approaching — a night of fireworks and noise that can cause fear among pets.

Chief Epidemiolgist Þórólfur Guðnason is currently looking into the possibility of changing his recommendations regarding time spent in quarantine and isolation.

ICE-SAR’s rescue teams began the sale of fireworks today.

A total of 893 new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in Iceland yesterday

Due to ongoing seismic activity near Fagradalsfjall mountain, Southwest Iceland, the Department of Civil Protection and Emergency Management and the Suðurnes chief of police have activated text messages (SMS messages), which will be sent to peopl...

Seismic activity on the Reykjanes peninsula, Southwest Iceland, continues.

Seven babies were born in Iceland on Christmas Eve and another seven on Christmas Day.

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.