Fifty rescue workers from nine rescue teams are on their way to Vatnajökull glacier, due to an emergency signal, received from a personal location beacon early this morning.

The northern lights have been very active in the sky above Iceland in recent days.

At a meeting today, the National Association of Police Officers (LL) will be discussing Icelandic police officers’ safety and whether they should carry weapons.

The special unit of the Icelandic national police commissioner has been called out increasingly often in recent years to respond to armed individuals.

Three men were arrested in Reykjavík yesterday morning after a man was shot and injured outdoors on Ingólfsstræti street.

Heavy snowfall in the southwestern part of Iceland overnight has resulted in numerous road closures.

An autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) from the AUV manufacturer Teledyne Gavia, proved useful in the search for the wreck of a plane that crashed into Þingvallavatn lake, Southwest Iceland Thursday last week.

The northern lights adorned the sky above Iceland last night.

Following a government meeting this morning, Minister of Health Willum Þór Þórsson announced the second phase of the easing of COVID-19 restrictions in Iceland.

Secret of the Sprakkar: One Small Island Nation, the Women Who Live There, and How They Are Changing the World, by Iceland’s first lady, Eliza Reid, was featured Tuesday In the What to Read section of The New York Times.

The bodies of all four victims of last week’s plane crash into Þingvallavatn lake, Southwest Iceland, were recovered yesterday.

A man in his twenties has been arrested by the police, following a shooting incident in the Grafarholt neighborhood of Reykjavík.

“The slope suddenly collapsed, as if the mountain had rifted.”

Efforts to retrieve the bodies of the victims of last week’s plane crash in Þingvallavatn lake, Southwest Iceland, will likely have to be postponed, since the ice on the lake has become too thick for diving to be possible.

The severe weather that moved across Iceland the night before last caused a sand storm in the village Vík í Mýrdal.

Due to poor driving conditions, the transport of equipment needed to retrieve the bodies of victims of Thursday’s plane crash in Þingvallavatn lake, Southwest Iceland, had to be postponed until today.

There was high surf and big waves near Vestmannaeyjar islands yesterday.

“The front door burst open in the severe weather at 6 o’clock [yesterday] morning.”

The South Iceland police have obtained footage from security cameras, located on cabins near Þingvallavatn lake, where a small airplane crashed on Thursday, killing all four on board.

Preschools in Reykjavík and vicinity will open at 1 pm and recreational activities of grade school students will resume.