On Friday evening, July 4, a search party was sent to locate a missing 19-year-old tourist travelling in Öræfi. He was found dead. South Iceland Police announced the discovery in a press statement.

The project is described as very extensive by Icelandic standards. The new road section is about 19 kilometres long, in addition to nine kilometres of side roads and four two-lane bridges. These ...

According to RÚV, the woman arrived to Iceland with her husband and one-year-old child in 2024. Due to the family’s stop in Croatia before entering Iceland, the case is treated on the grounds of the ...

Iceland received generally positive marks in the newly released OECD economic report, presented on June 26. The report places particular emphasis on education, energy issues, and reforms to the ...

During the proceedings, the farmer said he had no choice but to move his sheep to Grindavík at the time, as he had temporary housing for them in Reykjavík, which he had to vacate shortly after lambing ...

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; ...

In the summertime, Icelanders do anything for a good time Before we left our stinky turfhouses (some as late as the 1960s), winters were a time of quiet consolation when us farmers and fishermen ...

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 ...

Samherji, founded in 1983 in the northern town of Akureyri, is the embodiment of this evolution. It began as a modest fishing operation and, over the following decades, grew into one of Iceland’s (and ...

Gísli Már Gíslason, a former biology professor, believes that mosquitoes found in Scandinavia and the British Isles could easily survive in Iceland. They just haven’t arrived yet, reports Vísir. He ...

According to the U.S. Embassy in Iceland, all U.S. embassies are currently reviewing their contracts with contractors and other companies to comply with executive orders from U.S. President Donald ...

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