The septic tank in Vík í Mýrdal can no longer handle the sheer number of tourists, sometimes resulting in a bad smell in the town, reports Vísir. In addition, the local residents occasionally have to ...

The Westfjords Police and the Icelandic Coast Guard are currently conducting polar bear surveillance, particularly around the Hornstrandir area, following a video received by the police yesterday, ...

Want to deepen your relationship with Icelandic literature in English translation but don’t know where to start? We’ve asked US-based professor of literature, Jenna Grace Sciuto, what she’d suggest ...

What’s real, anyway? Known internationally for her large-scale public installations and sculptures exhibited from Venice Biennale to the Met, film, photography, and works on paper — Alicja Kwade’s ...

“My sister and I went to school on the opposite side of the mountain,” says Héðinn Birnir Ásbjörnsson, pointing across the fjord. “When the roads closed in October or November, we stayed there for a ...

Residents concerned by a car filled with gasoline tanks in the parking lot of Seljakirkja Church in Breiðholt called to report the car, which was the same car used in a massive oil theft this past ...

Twenty-three artists, three days, two stages, one new venue: this is the 2025 Innipúkinn. In this year’s iteration, indoor demons will take refuge in Austurbæjarbíó. Back in 2014, a Grapevine writer ...

The government considers it essential to maintain scheduled flights to Ísafjörður, according to Minister of Infrastructure Eyjólfur Ármannsson, reports RÚV.

Einar Örn Ólafsson, CEO of Play, does not rule out the airline delisting from the stock exchange and ceasing operations in Iceland altogether should market conditions become too difficult, reports RÚV ...

The Icelandic króna is at one of its strongest levels in history, making Iceland considerably more expensive than Norway and raising concerns about the competitiveness of the country’s export sectors, ...

People have been seen walking on both new and recent lava, which is extremely dangerous. The police and the Icelandic Met Office are warning people not to walk on the lava near the Sundhnúkur crater ...

The Borealis Data Center is a nondescript building next to a horse farm on the outskirts of Blönduós, a town of 800 inhabitants in the north of Iceland. Entering the building, after you make it past ...