The majority parties on Reykjavík City Council, the Independence Party, the Progressive Party and the Liberal Reform Party, approved changes to parking fees in downtown Reykjavík and other parking-related matters at a meeting of the City Executi...

Vilhjálmur Birgisson, chairman of the Federation of General and Special Workers in Iceland, welcomes IKEA’s decision to lower the prices of more than 1,000 products, in some cases by 30%.

“In my view, this is an effort by the union to reverse the concession made in 2020,” a Morgunblaðið source from the aviation industry tells the newspaper, when asked for his opinion on the results of a survey conducted among Icelandair pilot...

Halla Gunnarsdóttir, chair of VR, says the framework for the upcoming wage negotiations was discussed at a meeting between the Confederation of Icelandic Enterprise (SA) and VR that concluded a short while ago.

Runólfur Ólafsson, managing director of the Icelandic Automobile Association (FÍB), says he is still holding out hope that the government will once again lower VAT on fuel.

Weeks of dark omens. The sky went dark and day turned to night. Horses were observed walking on their hind legs. Dark-clad men, unknown persons all, were heard speaking in the long-dead Ostrogothic tongue. At the Grapevine building, our in-house econ...

Time caught up to me at this year’s Menningarnótt in ways I wasn’t expecting. The annual culture festival/Reykjavík birthday celebration has been a big part of this magazine for more than 20 years. In my first editorial run, we worked closely w...

Finally the referendum is over. While this is written before the votes have been counted, we can pass some preliminary judgement on how Iceland as a society and as a democracy fared. In short, not well. Icelanders are collectively suffering from refe...

Icelanders call the roof box for storage that sits on top of the car the “tengdamamma box” or the “mother-in-law box.” The place where the mother-in-law is supposed to travel, rather than sit in the car with everyone else. Now, jokes about in...

On Saturday 29 August Iceland held a referendum on whether or not to restart negotiations with the EU on joining that entity. The result was that 52,8% of the voters, 118.040 people, said no, and 47,2% or 105.339 people, voted yes. The vote was broug...