The district attorney's office has charged four men in a major cocaine case first reported last August. One hundred kilos of cocaine were to be shipped to the country by shipment of timber from Brazil with a stopover in the Netherlands.

The President of Iceland Guðni Th. Jóhannesson and First Lady Eliza Reid are expected to arrive late tonight after an official visit to Slovakia. Guðni says that the visit has been extremely successful and that it will strengthen the bond betwe...

The Icelandic company Carbon Recycling International (CRI) has helped set up the world's largest chemical plant in China that uses carbon dioxide emissions as material for chemical processing.

A fire occurred in the container area of the recycling operation Terra just outside Akranes, and heavy smoke was visible from the capital area this afternoon.

The President of Iceland, Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, lost to eight-year-old boy Haukur Haukur in a chess match at the Fisher Random chess tournament, currently in Reykjavík.

All invited, except the disabled? is the title of a new accessibility campaign by Sjálfsbjörg, the national federation of physically disabled people, designed to raise awareness of the fact that without adequate accessibility, disabled people ar...

“Yes, there was a body that was found and we don't think there was foul play,” the Chief Inspector of the Capital Region Police, Rafn Hilmar Guðmundsson, told mbl.is about a body found in Skeifan area in Reykjavík this evening. The body ...

The performances of the theatrical show The Snake has been postponed at Borgarleikhúsið, because an actor from the play was deported. This is confirmed by Hlynur Páll Páll Pállsson, communications director of Borgarleikhúsið, in a conversat...

“There has been a lot of talk about the Icelandic population getting older, so proportionally more people are nearing retirement age and then subsequently fewer people are in the labor market. It’s a challenge, of course, but it now seems to m...

Many of the world’s best chess players compete in the World Fischer Random Chess Tournament, which begins at the Hotel Natura in Reykjavík tomorrow in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the duel between the grandmasters Fischer and Spassky....

In total there have 1,400 earthquakes occurred in the vicinity of Herðubreið since the earthquakes started last Saturday. Of these, nearly 200 have occurred since midnight. Apart from the largest earthquake of 4.1M that struck on Saturday night,...

“I am doing fine, the workday is a bit long these days, but anything is possible,” says Stefán Máni, a crime novelist from Ólafsvík, after his latest novel was published on Friday. The book is called Hungur, or Hunger in English.

Landlords are expected to meet in early November for discussing the issue of Kirkjufell in Grundarfjörður, according to landowner Jóhannes Þorvarðarson. The land in Kirkjufell is divided into three holdings, and Jóhannes says it takes time t...

The crew of the Icelandic Coast Guard vessel Þór trained this week with the crews of the Brimil, the Faroese Coast Guard, and Vædderen, the Danish navy’s patrol vessel, off the Faroe Islands coast.

The Hvammsvík Hot Springs in Hvalfjörður and World Class Gym are setting up a a powerlifting competition where competitors raise three Atlas rocks to their shoulders on the beach at Hvammsvík. The competition will begin at 13 pm tomorrow, Satu...

Veitur, a subsidiary of Reykjavík Energy, is planning an extensive exploration for hot water in Kjalarnes. The company has applied for a permit to drill exploration wells and the Reykjavík Planning Commissioner has recommended that an executive ...

A man died in an accident on Kirkjufell in Grundarfjörður yesterday but in the past few years there have been several fatal accidents and rescue teams have had to rescue people that have either been trapped or had an accident.

The earthquake swarm that started on September 8th outside of north Iceland is still ongoing, but nearly 150 tremors were reported on meters near Grímsey yesterday. There have been 20 tremors in the area since midnight, according to a natural haz...

One man died in an accident at Kirkjufell in Grundarfjörður today. Rescue teams and the police were called to the scene at 3:30 PM today because of the accident.

The Icelandic design studio R57 has published the wall poster “Love is Blind” in five colours to support the Icelandic Association of the Visually Impaired. The project is meant to increase awareness of the situation of visually impaired peopl...