19 JunYesterday lava was about to flow over the defense wall close to Svartsengi. It was decided to cool the lava and the Grindavík Fire Department, along with other emergency responders, started for the operation around dinner time yesterday.
17 Jun 2024“It took courage and unwavering faith in the prospects of the Icelandic nation to fight for the sovereignty and the establishment of a republic.”
13 Jun 2024The first hybrid cruiser to sail in the Arctic and the only icebreaker to have been built as a passenger ship is regularly docked at Skarfabakki harbor in Reykjavík.
12 Jun 2024The American tourist Steve Stark and his family were quite taken back when they drove on a road that had been constructed over the newly flowing lava from the Sundhnúkagígar crater row volcano.
7 Jun 2024Jóhannes Þór Skúlason, CEO of the Icelandic Travel Industry Association, says that the effects of high interest rates can be felt in various sectors of the tourism industry, not just in the restaurant sector.
5 Jun 2024It is uncertain whether the ring road through Mývatn and Möðrudalsöræfi highlands and from Höfn to Djúpivogur will open today. The Road and Coastal Administration will evaluate the situation by noon.
3 Jun 2024The actor and presidential candidate, Jón Gnarr, no longer has his hair, as it was shaved yesterday. His son, Jón Gnarr jr., a new student from MS, shaved his dad’s hair from at their home in the western part of Reykjavík yesterday.
31 May 2024Kristján Helgi Þráinsson, deputy director of the Reykjavík Metropolitan Police, says the police do what they need to do to solve problems that can arise during protests. He says the protests went too far and that one police officer had to go to the emergency room.
24 May 2024Almost one-third of Icelanders buy clothes online. Furthermore, Icelanders buy four times more clothes at foreign online stores than at Icelandic clothing stores.
18 May 2024Presidential candidate Arnar Þór Jónsson has appealed to the Icelandic Journalists’ Union ethics committee for the cartoonist Hallur Baldursson’s caricature that was published in visir.is. This is because the cartoonist puts Arnar in an outfit that refers to Nazi uniforms.
11 May 2024The Icelandic men’s national team in handball will be among the participants at the World Cup in Croatia, Denmark and Norway at the beginning of next year.
11 May 2024“Often, the interests of the local economy and the local community have been put above their own. People go above and beyond every day to work and to survive themselves in the chaos that comes with unprepared migration. Every effort is made to minimise the damage to the children. That’s the hardest part.”
9 May 2024Three children have been born without professional involvement in Iceland so far this year, and there were six in the last year according to mbl.is, but the number could be higher as there are examples of parents choosing not to register their children in the system and thus there are no records of their existence.
/frimg/1/57/56/1575636.jpg)
