Three Icelandair flights have been canceled so far today due to a shortage of pilots, amid growing claims from the airline that pilots have resumed informal labor actions.

“As you can see, the real exchange rate measured by wages swings wildly, prices swing enormously, wages swing a great deal, everything that shapes production costs, the exchange rate of the Iceandic Króna ISK, and so on,” said Vilhjálmur Hil...

Residents of Grindavík and their supporters have called for a peaceful demonstration outside Alþingi, the Icelandic Parliament, building at 12:00 noon today.

The main trial of Ming Ting Mancel begins today at the Reykjavík District Court. Mancel is charged with causing the death of her daughter in collaboration with her husband at the Edition Hotel in Reykjavík in June of last year.

China’s ambassador to Iceland, He Rulong, visited the Arctic Observatory research station at Kárhóll in Þingeyjarsveit in May.

To some, the 1st of May is synonymous with International Worker’s Day, honouring the endless and slow-moving crawl toward labour rights for all workers. To others, the 1st of May is May Day, in which people get drunk and look at flowers in the mode...

The capital region is currently experiencing an extraordinarily pleasant heatwave. The Icelandic Meteorological Office reports temperatures of 20 degrees Celsius, (68 Fahrenheit). The highs are expected to last through Sunday, June 14, with a return ...

Magnús Jóhann is a very serious composer, and, as very serious composers do, he recently wrote Very Serious Music, his new concerto for Ondes Martenot, piano and orchestra, to premiere at Harpa on May 22. I met up with Magnús to talk about his upc...

I’m not used to going to a sports event at 12:30 AM, let alone a televised one starting after midnight. But I had to make an exception the wee hours of Friday night, June 5, technically Saturday, the 6th, as the New York Knicks were two games away ...

I trust that you already have some murky idea of what ‘murky’ means. If water is murky, then it’s obscure or dark. You might feel hesitant about bathing in a murky pond. Someone might say, “I asked my wife where she’d been, but her answers ...