Starting tomorrow, visitors to the manuscript exhibition World in Words (Heimur í orðum) will be able to view five Icelandic manuscripts from Sweden that have never before been displayed in Iceland.

Residents of Smyrilshlíð and Haukahlíð plan to file a formal compensation claim against the City of Reykjavík over changes to the zoning plan for the so-called I-lot in the Valshverfi neighborhood in Vatnsmýri. One resident says the city fai...

The Force was with churchgoers at Guðríðarkirkja yesterday, where a Star Wars-themed service was held.

A man in his thirties has been sentenced to four months in prison for helping a 15-year-old girl evade the custody and supervision of her parents after taking her aboard a fishing vessel without their knowledge.

An unusually large earthquake struck between Ok Glacier and Þórisjökull shortly after 2 p.m. today.

A Romanian man has been arrested in his home country after approximately ISK 160 million was fraudulently taken from Arion Bank in late April.

Interior designer, Maríanna Björk Ásmundsdóttir, graduated from KLC Design School in London last summer. Since graduating, she has kept busy with several projects, including redesigning an original townhouse in Fossvogur, designing jeweler Lil...

Around 250 people took part in a joint aviation disaster exercise held yesterday at Akureyri Airport by Icelandic Civil Protection and Isavia.

Andri Snær Magnason, writer, activist, and central figure in the National Geographic documentary Time and Water, has received the “Voice for a Living Planet” award, presented by WWF in Poland at the country’s largest documentary film festiv...

Students at the University of Iceland were disrupted at the worst possible time, in the middle of exam season, when a cyberattack again targeted the Canvas platform used by the university last night.

A seal pup is stranded on land on the shoreline north of the Nökkvi sailing club in Akureyri.

Iceland’s population increased by 520 in the first quarter of 2026.

Cybersecurity company Syndis is set to significantly strengthen its push into the Nordic market, as IT security firm ITSB, which Syndis acquired last year, is now being fully integrated under the updated Syndis brand.

Coastal fishing season began on Monday, with boats leaving harbors in waves. There is a palpable sense of anticipation among small-boat fishermen ahead of the season—not only at sea, but also on land.

To mark Iceland’s swimming pool culture being added to UNESCO’s list of intangible cultural heritage in December, the National Museum of Iceland, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, Innovation and Higher Education, called for grant ...

Björg Magnúsdóttir, leader of the Liberal Reform Party in Reykjavík, sharply criticizes the Social Democratic Alliance in a Facebook post.

The minority of the Parliamentary Constitutional and Supervisory Committee has proposed postponing the national referendum scheduled for August until October. Both the minority and the majority of the committee have also proposed changing the word...

Depth measurements were carried out in Landeyjahöfn harbor last night. Considerable dredging is still needed before it will be possible to sail there except under ideal conditions at high tide.

Iceland’s swimming pool culture has caught the attention of The New York Times, which recently published an in-depth article on the role of pools in Icelandic society.

Executives of the Icelandic video game company CCP have reached an agreement to purchase the company.