The Fjarðabyggð municipal council executive committee strongly opposes the planned merger of the police districts in East Iceland, South Iceland and the Westman Islands and is calling for the plans to be abandoned.

Marco Rubio, the US Secretary of State, is in Iceland on an official visit but will leave the country today.

A total of 346 sexual offences were reported to police nationwide from January to June this year, the highest number recorded in the first half of a year since 2021.

Marco Rubio, U.S. Secretary of State, is expected to arrive in Iceland today after accepting an invitation from Icelandic Foreign Minister Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir to visit the country, as reported ahead of the weekend.

Hafnarfjörður’s municipal council executive committee decided at its meeting yesterday not to raise general fees by more than 2.5% in 2027. It was decided that this would serve as a key benchmark in the municipality’s budget preparations, wh...

Update on Name That Sheep: We have received the correct name. At 12 days, this is not the quickest victory, but it remains alarming. (Quickest victory was Ösp in our debut week.)   Just so this is clear, somebody in this country was able to ide...

I caught his eye by mistake in the midst of the jumping and drunken partygoers, and I couldn’t stop laughing. He was taken aback at first then started to laugh with me. Everyone else around us at the árshátíð was too busy shouting the words alo...

The head of an American investment firm says his company paid 2.2 million ISK ($18,000) in 2025 to a Washington consultant hired by the Independence Party, Iceland's largest opposition party, towards lobbying.     J. Heath Cardie, managing ...

The discussion about the referendum on the negotiations for Iceland’s accession to the EU has been obliterated by another topic that is arguably the most discussed in Iceland right now: the PISA results. The PISA 2025 results, released in September...

A medical doctor by training, Dagur B. Eggertsson currently serves as a minister of parliament. He was mayor of Reykjavik from October 2007 to January 2008 and for 10 years, from 2014 to 2024, marking him as one of two mayors in the history of Reykja...