“I’ve been around many of the actions that have been taking place. I’ve lived here in Minneapolis for three years, and I live downtown,” says Karvel Ágúst Schram in an interview with mbl.is. He has been following the large protests and u...

Forty-one Icelanders are aged 100 and older. Two of them still have a spouse living.

The Marine and Freshwater Research Institute’s advice on the total capelin quota will be issued later this week, but it is already clear that fishermen are eager to get out to the fishing grounds.

Eyjagöng ehf., which is preparing to construct a tunnel between the mainland and the Westman Islands, has secured a large portion of its ISK 200 million financing target. The company was founded two months ago, and construction is expected to beg...

“It’s a long story, but I’ll keep it short,” says Erin McHale, a biologist from Old Bridge, New Jersey, who will complete her PhD this spring at the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers University in New Brunsw...

Icelandair has cancelled some of its flights to the United States today, as well as arrivals from the US scheduled for tomorrow morning. Several flights are still operating as planned.

Republican members of the US Congress celebrating at a reception on Wednesday night likely had no idea they were unwittingly recreating a moment from Reykjavik history — echoing a party held in Grjótaþorpið in downtown Reykjavik a full centur...

A Taiwanese company, Brogent Technologies, has reached an agreement to acquire the Icelandic company Flyover Attractions, which includes Flyover Iceland. The management of Flyover Iceland says the company’s operations will remain unchanged.

The Marine Research Institute’s vessels Þórunn Þórðardóttir and Árni Friðriksson left the capelin survey route around midday yesterday and headed closer to shore due to the weather. Þórunn took shelter in Aðalvík in the Hornstrandir ...

“We are approaching this with full commitment, and I hope that we can finally reach an agreement,” says Anton Kári Halldórsson, municipal manager of Rangárþing eystra.

The Ministry for Foreign Affairs has received confirmation from U.S. authorities that U.S. President Donald Trump was not referring to Iceland when he mentioned the country four times in his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos yesterday.

Most real estate agents believe that market activity remains low for this time of year and that conditions still favour buyers.

Support for the Centre Party has increased by three percentage points month-on-month and now stands at 22.2% in the latest poll by Maskína. This is just under five percentage points lower than support for the Social Democratic Alliance, which mea...

Niceair’s planned flight from Akureyri to Copenhagen, scheduled for February, will not go ahead. This was to have been the relaunched airline’s inaugural flight.

Yesterday was a hectic day at the emergency department of Landspítali University Hospital in Fossvogur. Dozens of people sought treatment for slip-and-fall injuries, and it can be said that hazardous conditions prevailed in southwest Iceland due ...

The bridge over the river Jökulsá at Breiðamerkursandur, near Jökulsárlón on the Ring Road, will be closed from 7:00 p.m. until 1:00 a.m. tomorrow night.

Magma continues to accumulate slowly and steadily beneath Svartsengi. Nearly 20 million cubic metres of magma have now accumulated there since the last eruption in July.

Numerous traffic accidents have occurred so far this morning after black ice formed on roads in the capital area.

The owner of four dogs in Akranes appealed a decision by the Planning and Environment Committee of the Municipality of Akranes to ban dog ownership at his home to the Environmental and Natural Resources Appeals Committee.

Veitur has increased the fixed charge for district heating by 48.9% over the course of one year, without the increases being presented to city councillors.