A beluga whale was recently spotted swimming in Reyðarfjörður in East Iceland. Belugas are rare visitors to Icelandic waters.

The aviation color code for Bárðarbunga remains yellow while uncertainty continues regarding developments at the volcano. According to the Icelandic Meteorological Office, a yellow alert indicates that a volcano is showing signs of elevated acti...

Pleasant weather is expected to continue tomorrow in the same areas that enjoyed sunshine today, particularly in South and West Iceland.

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.

There’s already a healthy crowd milling about inside Hof, Akureyri’s high-ceilinged cultural centre, waiting to be let into the auditorium to spend an evening watching hard bodies flexed. The crowd itself is the most muscular audience anywhere in...

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 ...