Reykjavík hit a scorching 10°C yesterday, setting a new April record. But today? April snow and hail — because of course! The event schedule this weekend is way more predictable than the weather, and ...

Icelandic companies are being required to comply with U.S. laws that prohibit implementing policies promoting diversity, equity, or inclusion (DEI), reports RÚV. However, Icelandic law mandates that ...

A total of 13.022 people signed a petition urging authorities to cancel plans to allow open-pen fish farming in Seyðisfjörður, RÚV reports. The petition was closed on midnight, April 9. In December, ...

The first puffins to return to Iceland settled in Grímsey last weekend, reports akureyri.is. The small bird was unusually punctual, arriving about four days before the expected date. Puffins spend ...

Steikhúsið has made the bold choice of claiming the title of being “the steakhouse” in Iceland. It may have been a reasonable attempt at gaming the Google algorithm, but also makes for pretty big ...

On April 9, four aircraft were diverted from Keflavík Airport around midnight after the runway landing lights malfunctioned, reports RÚV. One plane, an Icelandair flight from Heathrow Airport in ...

The Directorate of Health has sent a statement to contacts and principals of health-promoting primary schools, advising against screening the series Adolescence to students, reports Vísir. “Child ...

The chair of the Writers’ Union of Iceland says works by Icelandic authors are among those Meta downloaded from a pirate site to train its AI. The union is now considering the next steps in ...

“The government said that they wanted to work for the people and not the big companies,” says Benedikta Guðrún Svavarsdóttir, head of the nonprofit VÁ, which has been fighting to stop open net-pen ...

A spectral pitch opens theremin-master Hekla’s latest album Turnar. Reverberating the ghostly wails of what once was, a loud, nerve-shaking sub-bass tilts the listener out of their comfort zone. It’s ...

Two teenage girls, one of them underage, are in custody following a drug smuggling case last week, reports RÚV. They have no connection to Iceland. The two girls, reportedly from Germany, are ...

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