The Independence Party received 32.5% of the vote in Reykjavík’s municipal elections and secured nine seats on the City Council. The Social Democratic Alliance finished as the city’s second-largest party with 18% support and five seats. Vote ...

Final results are now in for the municipal election in Kópavogur, where the Independence Party has gained two additional seats compared with 2022 and secured an outright majority on the town council.

Vote counting is underway following today’s municipal elections.

Kristín Þorleifsdóttir, who turned 101 in February and was recently featured in Morgunblaðið, cast her vote today at Lækjarskóli polling station in Hafnarfjörður.

Around 55,000 people had voted in Reykjavík’s municipal election by 8 p.m. tonight, representing about 51% of the 108,000 registered voters in the city.

Whether you live in Reykjavík or are just visiting, you’ve got to do something on a weekend night — and luckily, we’ve selected a few things you might want to check out. Tonight, Friday, May 15, Kjartan Hugi plays a mostly improvised set on wo...

On May 10, Stjörnugrís pig farm at Kjalarnes was burglarised. Offices were vandalised and pigs were freed from their pens, resulting in the death of at least 10 piglets.  In conversation with Vísir, Stjörnugrís CEO Geir Gunnar Geirsson claimed ...

An AI video posted on the People’s Party’s first chair Guðmundir Ingi Þóroddsson’s TikTok profile was quickly taken down harsh criticism. Among other things, the video featured Guðmundur fistfighting Social Democrat first chair Pétur Marte...

Iceland has resigned from the international Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), which facilitates cross-border energy industry co-operation. Enviromental, Energy, and Climate Minister and Social Democrat MP Jóhann Páll Jóhannsson claimed the treaty to be...

Close readers of the Reykjavik Grapevine may notice that while our online summary of the 2026 municipal campaign includes a response from the Pirate Party, our print issue does not, (due to a combination of response timing and tight publication sched...