The decline of democracy is increasingly visible around the world — and experts warn that Iceland may not be immune to that trend in the coming years.

Civil protection response plans for South Iceland have been updated in preparation for potential volcanic eruptions and glacial floods. Meetings have also been held with residents in the Rangárvallasýsla and West Skaftafellssýsla regions.

The light of the Imagine Peace Tower on Viðey Island was illuminated at 8 p.m. yesterday evening, on the birthday of John Lennon, the husband of Yoko Ono.

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Seventy years after Halldór Laxness received the Nobel Prize in Literature and ninety years after the publication of Independent People, the Icelandic author’s works appear to be rapidly vanishing from high school reading lists.

“This is a historic day — one that gives us hope for the people of Palestine and for the release of the hostages. That is what we must discuss: how we can continue to support Palestine in the future,” said Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir,...

The Environment and Energy Agency of Iceland will impose an administrative fine on the bankruptcy estate of Play for unpaid carbon taxes, also known as emission allowances.

“The defendant has confessed to his role in the case concerning a 63-year-old woman who was shot to death in her home in Stockholm exactly one year ago,” said Alexandra Bittner, district prosecutor and lead prosecutor in the case against the I...

The family of Margrét Kristín Blöndal, better known as Magga Stína, is urging the Icelandic government to do everything in its power to secure her immediate release, along with the rest of the crew of the so-called Freedom Flotilla.

The Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Iceland has decided to keep the bank’s interest rates unchanged.

Increased visible steam has been observed along the national highway through Hveradalir.

The Independence Party branch in Grindavík passed a resolution at its annual meeting this evening outlining plans to resume daycare services in Grindavík next spring and reopen schools in the fall of 2026.

An Icelandic woman is harshly criticizing the Directorate of Immigration’s decision to deport her husband and impose a two-year re-entry ban. She says the process was confusing, unfair, and in violation of her fundamental rights as an Icelandic ...

The airline Play, which declared bankruptcy last Monday, owed Isavia around half a billion Icelandic krónur in landing fees at Keflavik International Airport.

Six people were transported to the hospital in Egilsstaðir following a traffic accident on Jökuldalsheiði around eight o’clock last night.

Icelandic mathematician Björn Birnir has become one of the world’s leading experts on air turbulence, and was recently interviewed by The New York Times about his groundbreaking research on the phenomenon.

The short documentary Fjallferð was filmed in Landmannaafréttur in the autumn of 2024. Three young American filmmakers — Jesse Smolan, Josh Fairmont, and Ollie Smith — contacted Icelandic photographer Ragnar Axelsson, known as RAX, and were ...

Halla Gunnarsdóttir, chair of the VR union, believes that municipalities have effectively given up on preschool issues. She says society assumes two wage earners, and preschools are one of the cornerstones of that system.

Today’s forecast calls for light northerly or variable winds. The weather will be mostly clear, though isolated showers are expected in the south and west early in the day.

“We have a large number of passengers booked to Gran Canaria and Tenerife this winter, and many of those had originally booked with Play,” says Andri Már Ingólfsson, CEO of the travel agency Aventura, in an interview with mbl.is.