Two are dead and one is injured after a fatal shooting in Blönduós this morning. The shooting took place between 5 and 6 AM says Birgir Jónasson, the Chief of Police in the North West.The alleged shooter is one of the deceased.

The Icelandic champion Arnar Pétursson came in first in the Reykjavík Marathon this morning. Hann ran the marathon in 2:35:18 but there were only a few seconds between him and Silviu Stoica who came in second at 2:35:37.

Hilmar Gunnarsson is going to run 10 kilometers for his son Kristófer and all the kids in the SLF's Rehabilitation Center in Reykjadalur tomorrow in the Reykjavík Marathon sponsored by Íslandsbanki. He has already accumulated almost 1,5 mil...

The geophysicist Páll Einarsson says that the volcanic eruption in Meradalir has been slowing down considerably in the last ten days. He says it is difficult to know whether this is a slowing phase and the eruption will gain more power soon or if...

The Reykjavík Marathon is tomorrow and it will have an impact on traffic and some streets will be closed for the duration of the marathon.

There are examples of people taking their children to the eruption site in Meradalir in spite of it being closed says Bogi Adolfsson who is in Þorbjörn Rescue team to mbl.is. The walk to the volcano and back is 14 km with elevation and through r...

There were 12,240 vacant jobs in the Icelandic job market in the second quarter of 2022. At the same time there were 229,148 manned jobs, so the ratio of vacant jobs is 5.1%.

The Special Forces and the police for the Reykjanes peninsula have arrested a man who was walking on Hafnargata in Keflavík with an axe and acting weird.

The walking paths to the eruption site at Meradalir is closed today due to weather. This is confirmed by Kristín Jónsdóttir a specialist in natural disasters at the Met Office, but the information is also to be found on safetravel.is.

The waves in Reynisfjara Black Beach will reach up to 3.7 meters today. Tomorrow they will be even higher, or up to 4.7 meters, which is quite unusual. This is reported on the weather website Blika.

Liquid lava from the volcano in Geldingadalir is already squeezing out of the older lava field because of the weight of the new lava flowing on top of the old one.

The square at the corner of Garðastræti and Túngata will from now on be dedicated to Kiev, the capital of Ukraine.

Reykjavík is celebrating its 236th birthday next Saturday on the 20th of August with the comeback of the biggest annual event in the city, Culture Night of 2022.

The Instagram star Jay Alvarez published an amazing video of himself walking a tightrope over flaming lava at the eruption site in Meradalir recently.

It is important to have more people 67 and older working, says the economist Ásta Ásgeirs­dótt­ir who works for the National Association of Pension Funds.

Ingi­björg Gréta is a woman who loves hiking and being in the great outdoors. Her new favourite place in the world is Hornstrandir and she had planned three out of four long hikes there this summer. However, things do not always go according to...

A car was driven into the Nettó grocery store in Búðakór in Kópavogur shortly after noon today. The Chief of the Fire Department in Reykjavík confirmed the story to mbl.is. He says that nothing points to anybody getting hurt, since the para...

The police in the Reykjanes peninsula has issued an announcment regarding repairs on trail A at Meradalir:

"The lava had not passed the edge of the pass, but if the flow continues like it has been doing, it will eventually go over the brim. There is a possibility the route might be different in what routes the lava will flow into the valleys," ...

It looks like there will be a huge increase in Cruise ships coming to Icland in 2023, if bookings for that year are anything to go by. Already there are 260 bookings for next summer which means that the summer of 2023 will see more Cruise ships in...