Kópavogur is considering installing a 100-metre-long floating breakwater in Kópavogur Harbour to reduce the impact of waves generated by strong southwesterly winds.

The board of the Icelandic Travel Industry Association (SAF) has expressed serious concern about the damaging effects of the planned indefinite strike by Icelandair aircraft mechanics.

A total of 90 fin whales have been caught so far this whaling season. The two whaling vessels, Hvalur 8 and Hvalur 9, headed back out to sea the night before last after spending the previous two days docked in Hvalfjörður, Kristján Loftsson, CE...

Police are investigating an incident in which a KR swimming coach attacked a Grótta swimming coach two days ago. The victim required medical treatment for injuries at an emergency department.

There is unnecessary secrecy surrounding the PISA results of individual schools, according to Jón Pétur Zimsen, an MP for the Independence Party and first vice-chairman of Parliament’s General Affairs and Education Committee. Schools and munic...

Today, whenever a large enough scandal breaks, there will inevitably follow calls for it to be investigated, and not just investigated but properly investigated. “Þetta þarf að rannsaka!” people say, “This must be investigated!” The verb r...

Solo travelers to a foreign land often ponder their future, or escape a relationship. Sometimes horny Gen-Zers and Millennials revel in online dating’s anonymity to indulge in one-night stand/s.    Anorgasmia: All the Things We Do to Survive ...

You know the rules. Name that sheep. Tell us the name of this specific sheep. Email us at sheep@grapevine.is. If you get the right name, and you’re in Iceland, you win a hot dog, made in part with sheep. One guess per email address please. Not in I...

Every creator, publisher, writer and musician over 30 seemed present at a packed Háskólabíó to watch composer, keyboardist, jazz musician, classicist, beat maker, film scorer, and master producer Magnús Jóhann celebrate his 30th birthday. This ...

In 1995 I was turning 17 and had plans to attend Þjóðhátíð í Eyjum – a notoriously boozy outdoor festival in Vestmannaeyjar – with two of my friends. Plans which my mother disapproved of. However, at the time, people turned legally compete...