The actors Ben Stiller and Ólafur Darri Ólafsson seemed very happy meeting each other in Stykkishólmur recently. Stiller posted a video of them meeting.

The Icelandic company Car­bfix gets the highest EU grant any Icelandic company has been awarded from the EU Innovation Fund.The grant is 16 billion ISK and is for the development and building of Coda Terminal plant in Straumsvík. This will be t...

Will­um Þór Þórs­son the Minister of Health is proposing a bill that decriminalizes small doses of drugs that are clearly for personal use. A very similar bill put forth by the previous Minister of Health, Svandís Svavarsdóttir, did not ma...

The Icelandic journalist Valur Gunnarsson was stopped by an army police and taken to a guard post in the Ukranian city Odessa on Monday night. He says the whole ordeal ended well, because the Ukranian know that their only chance of surviving is to...

Marel released its unedited preliminary results for the second quarter of 2022 today, and it shows a record number of orders, EUR 472m, revenues of EUR 397 and operational performance of 6.3% EBIT.

A driver who was on his way from Hafnarfjörður to Keflavík was seriously taken aback when he heard an explosion due to construction work close by the road.

The siblings Sigfús Sigurðsson and Bryndís Sigurðardóttir are the oldest living siblings in Iceland, but their combined age is 203 years and 8 months, according to Jónas Ragnarsson, who is the moderator of the Facebook website "Langlífi...

The couple Jan Van Hass and Marta Magnúsdóttir opened the coffie roasting coffeehouse Valeria in Grundarfjörður last June and it has been going well. Van Hass is from Colubia and they import the coffeebeans directly from Columbia from small fa...

A new Icelandic film will premiere next Wednesday called Redux (Þrot in Icelandic). The filmmaker is Heimir Bjarnason and it is his first feature film.

Fjalls­ár­lón Ice­berg Boat Tours recently added a new option in their services when they made it possible to stay on special houseboats in the lagoon, which can be used as sledges during winter.

The writer and filmmaker Sarah Thomas lived in Iceland for a decade and now she has written her memoirs from her stay in the Westfjords in the book The Raven's Nest that was published recently.

The interest of American tourists in Iceland is likely increasing since the American dollar has been gaining strenght agaist other currencies says Sigríður Dögg Guðmundsdóttir, a director with Visit Iceland.

Downtown Reykjavík is packed, especially the square Ingólfstorg, named after Ingólfur Arnarson, usally seen as the first nordic settler in Iceland. The reason why is that the Icelandic female football team is playing in the UEFA Women's EUR...

Iceland tops the list for the thirteenth year in a row when it comes to gender equality according to the World Economic Forum.

Two men, a father and a son, were saved this morning from a sinking boat in Breiðafjörður. The boat was leaking and the man got away to a near boat, and no later their boat was on its side halfway in the sea.

Halldóra Kristjánsdóttir's daughter was a victim of an attack outside of Þórufell 14 in Breiðholt in Reykjavík yesterday. She was threatened with a knife and then pushed to the ground. She managed to scream and get away from the assaila...

Vogue Scandinavia published recently an interesting list over the bars/restaurants that are the most interesting and stylish for happy hour or a drink after work. Most of the places have been popular in Iceland for years.

Almost third of all tourists in Iceland this June came from the United States is stated in an announcement from the Icelandic Tourist Board.

The Grandmasters Helgi Ólafsson and Jóhann Hjartarson are certain that the chess table that Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky used when playing the 7.-21st chess matches in the World Chess Championship, or what Icelanders call the Chessbattle of t...

Hörður Kristleifsson, who is a 23 year old photographer, has for quite a few years dreamt about capturing the perfect shot of the mountain Keilir in the Reykjanes peninsula. In his mind the perfect shot would be capturing the top of the mountain...