The final touches are being made in a brand new store for the Icelandic company 66°North, which will open at Regent Street in London at the end of November.

“This is a reckless increase in these property taxes. It’s very burdensome for Reykjavík businesses, absolutely,” says Ingólfur Bender, the chief economist of the Federation of Icelandic Industries (SI), but the budget for the next five ye...

Everything points to residential development being strong at this time and more apartments are expected on the market in the coming months and next years. There is a growing number of apartments under construction, and more apartments are under c...

Gudjón Valdimarsson, the father of National Police Chief, is alleged to have built and sold illegal semi-automatic rifles.

The Christian church Omega violated the Media Act by broadcasting foreign content without Icelandic subtitles on the television station Omega.

“I’d like to write more about one of the main characters,” the crime novelist Ragnar Jónsson says of a possible continued collaboration with the Prime Minister, Katrín Jakobsdóttir, but they just published their first project together, th...

The Norwegian aquaculture giant Mowi is planning to buy shares in Arctic Fish for 26 billion ISK. After the acquisition Mowi will be in control of 51.28% of Arctic Fish shares.

The American grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura won the Fischer Randcom Chess Tournament that ended Sunday night in Reykjavík. The winner of the final was Hikaru Nakamura, defeating Ian Nepomniachtchi in armageddon after drawing the match 2-2. He is the...

The ten full-time jobs of directors of Landspítali will be eliminated while the number of managers will increase from eight to eleven according to the new hospital’s organizational chart.

The exhibition rights for the animated TV series Tulipop Tales have already been sold to ten countries. Apart from Iceland, the TV seriesis already showing in Norway. In other countries, such as Finland, Canada, Poland, South Africa and the Middle...

The government has decided to support the creation of a memorial to the role of “herring girls” in the economic and employment of Icelandic women in the last century with 15 million ISK. The memorial will be placed on a specially built area at...

The reality star Jacques O'Neill is in Iceland with an entourage of influencers. O'Neill took part in the last season of the popular Love Island show and was in a relationship with Page Thorne.

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...