Extensive road construction around Hornafjörður, East Iceland, will be completed before the New Year. This will shorten the Ring Road by 12 kilometres, reports RÚV.

“When you turn onto the Strandavegur, you really feel like you’re entering another world — and almost another lifetime,” says Emilie Dalum, curator of the annual art exhibition at the old herring ...

In this episode, we cover a search for a lost person on Mt. Esja that began Monday and was ongoing when we recorded; we discuss last week’s fatality at Brúará, midway between Laugarvatn and Geysir; ...

Since Iceland’s urbanisation and the country’s general development, this dynamic has gone topsy-turvy. Winters are for work, summers for leisure. This rapid transformation, among other things, has ...

In addition, the Skjaldborg team is bringing to the festival what Karna calls “unseen gems” — a newly restored film made from archival footage by Patreksfjörður resident Garðar Ó. Jóhannesson, who ...

The story of the Samherji case is not only the largest bribery scandal in Icelandic history, but also a global tale of corporate malfeasance, political corruption, journalistic tenacity, and artistic ...

Iceland’s Minister of Education and Children’s Affairs, Ásthildur Lóa Þórsdóttir, resigned earlier this year amidst a scandal that made headlines here in Iceland and notably around the entire world.

Last night, the police in the capital area received a report about a woman assaulting a pizza delivery driver in Reykjavík, reports Vísir. According to the police, the woman had stolen the delivery ...

Eighty years is a lifetime. And a lot of things can change in a lifetime. The older picture, taken from the then newly built grammar school Melaskóli shows you how much of what is now Vesturbær, where ...

The Foreign Ministry has published a travel advisory aimed at LGBTQ+ people, encouraging travellers to be mindful of the attitudes found in other countries.

The news that Berjaya Food International had secured the rights to open and operate Starbucks cafés in Iceland were announced last August. Around the same time, the company also revealed plans for ...

As reported by RÚV, the government has appointed a task force to prepare financing for the Sundabraut highway project. The program has been in the works for years and is set to be the single largest ...