“Events like these are organised over four or five days, and this time five days were set aside. The aim was to set two records in two different categories, one involving two separate formations in the same jump and the other three.”

Changes to the Health Insurance Act approved by Althingi on June 1 mean, among other things, that from January 1, individuals travelling to countries outside the EEA will no longer be insured for costs they may incur as a result of illness or acci...

Halla Tómasdóttir, President of Iceland, attended the funeral of King Harald V of Norway yesterday.

Orkuveitan is preparing experimental drilling at Nesjavellir using a method that could make geothermal energy production possible in areas previously considered unsuitable for power generation. It could also produce several times more power from i...

The performance of children in Iceland has, taken as a whole, declined more since 2015 than in any of the more than 70 countries or territories included in a new OECD PISA comparison.

If you listen to Icelandic music, you listen to Magnús Jóhann Ragnarsson, stage name Magnús Jóhann. This goes for any genre. The greatest, most revered rapper in the country, Birnir, his key lick is a Magnús Jóhann lick. Looking for swaggering ...

On November 26, four days before Iceland's 2024 parliamentary elections, then-Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson was greeted by a phone call when he entered his home. It was President-elect Donald Trump. This unusual phone call came with an unusual s...

The Reykjavík Grapevine's Iceland Roundup brings you the top news with a healthy dash of local views. In this episode, Grapevine publisher Jón Trausti Sigurðarson is joined by Grapevine journalist Elías Þórsson, and Grapevine friend and contrib...

Gerard Butler, Bubbi, Michael Brook & Infinite Guitar, Björk's infamous TV appearance in the 80's and so on. Director Jón Einarsson Gústafsson's latest movie Anorgasmia: All the Things We Do To Survive opens in Bíó Paradís on September 1...

Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir publicly chided the actions of President Trump today. Speaking today to the local press regarding an AI map President Trump posted to Truth Social on Monday, September 7, 2026, she stated: "It is an insult to Ic...