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The golfbuddies, Hjalti Jóhannesson, electrican og Pétur Elíasson, carpenter, on Keilir golf course yesterday morning.

Do not let the weather stop their daily game of golf

20 Oct 2023 Presumably, most of the people were not paying attention to outdoor activities when the winds were at their highest in the capital area yesterday morning. But that did not stop the old time friends Bjarni Jóhannsson and Pétur Elíasson, who decided to take a round of golf at Hvalreyrarvöllur or Keilir golf course in Hafnarfjörður.

Agnes M. Sigurðardóttir, bishop of Iceland, or not?

“Then there is no bishop over Iceland”

20 Oct 2023 “Based on this conclusion, the situation is that there no decisions that the bishop Agnes M. Sigurðardóttir has taken after 1 July 2022 are valid, that fall under the authority of the Bishop. All decisions she takes and the Bishop alone has the authority to take to not hold, based on this decision of the National Church’s ruling committee. If we assume that the ruling committee’s decision is correct, then there is no bishop over Iceland,” stated Chief Justice Einar Gautur Steingrímsson to Morgunblaðið.

A lot of sheep on the farm Efra-Apavatn has been killed or injured due to attacking dogs in the last few weeks.

Horrible to find your animals torn apart

19 Oct 2023 Sigríður Jónsdóttir, daughter of the farmers in the farm Efra-Apavatn in Bláskógarbyggð, says that the last week has been awful and a lot of tears have been shed.

The man was arrested on Keflavík Airport when he was trying to get a bag of his "supposed" friend and then tried to bolt.

In a doctor’s coat with 15 kg of cannabis

16 Oct 2023 An American man has been sentenced to 15 months in prison, including 12 months on probation, for his part in the importation of 15.1 kg of marijuana to Iceland in May. In the Reykjanes District Court’s verdict, the story of the man who claimed to have come here as a treatment counsellor for drug-addicts sounds improbable and bears the hallmark of being false in all main points. In the story, Ms. T., Costastal Connect and an old childhood friend, Frankie Sims, who had a bag in a safe at Keflavik Airport, are included among others.

Helga Björg Helgadóttir and her late husband Guðjón Björnsson with their three children. Helgadóttir is now battling a system that does not account for people dying.

Rigid system that does not assume that people can die

14 Oct 2023 “I had to change the ID number for the farm because we didn’t have this as an enterprise but just listed on my husband’s ID number,” Helga Björg Helgadóttir, a cow farmer at Syðri-Hamrar 3 in Ásahreppur, Rangárvallasýsla, told mbl.is. Helgadóttir has been fighting the system since her husband, Guðjón Björnsson, died in an accident at their farm in March.

Sigurjón Árni Ólafsson, the managing director of Max 1.

"Winter always comes as a surprise to some people"

12 Oct 2023 “We don’t have anything available until October 24,” said an employee at Max 1 at Bíldshöfði when a reporter approached to get a change of tires. All available time slots were filled for a tire exchange, and the same was the case with two other tire exchange companies in Skeifa and Höfði this morning.

It was a busy night for rescue teams all over the country.

Two people rescued north of Mýrdalsjökull

11 Oct 2023 Landsbjörg’s rescue teams had a busy day last night due to the weather and the teams had to go to several calls around the country.

The Icelanders will fly from Jordan tonight

9 Oct 2023 A group of 120 Icelanders are still in Israel but they are expected to drive to Jordan today where they will board a plane hired by the Icelandic government that flies to Iceland. The group of Icelanders have been staying at their hotel since the attacks and have not been allowed to go outside.

The Icelanders are safe in the hotel in Jerusalem.

A group of 100 Icelanders in Israel

7 Oct 2023 “There are air-defense bunkers on each floor here, and we settled in after we saw the bomb here earlier,” Aldís Hafsteinsdóttir, the municipality’s mayor of Hrunamannahreppur, told mbl.is, but she is in a hotel in Jerusalem, Israel, with 90 other Icelanders.

Björk and Rosalia encourage people to protest tomorrow

6 Oct 2023 Singers Björk Gudmundsdottir and Rosalia encourage people to protest at Austurvöllur on Saturday, in an announcement sent to the media from Björk.

Hvalur 8 and Hvalur 9 turn to shore, one with one fin whale, the other with two.

Whaling season over: 24 fin whales caught

2 Oct 2023 The whaling season has ended. The whaling vessels Hvalur 8 and Hvalur 9 have arrived in with three fin whales. A total of 24 fin whales have been caught during the season.

Sigríður Dóra Magnúsdóttir, director of the Capital Region's Health Service. With cooler weather the annual autumn illnesses kick in and health authorities are feeling it with more traffic to health facilities.

Feeling the impact of autumn illnesses

29 Sep 2023 "Autumn illnesses are coming in full force and we really feel it," says Sigríður Dóra Magnúsdóttir, director of the Capital Region's Health Service, to mbl.is.

Police are going over footage from surveillance cameras among other things in the investigation of the attack on Tuesday night.

More than one might be behind the attack

28 Sep 2023 Eiríkur Valberg, a police officer with the Central Bureau of Investigation's police department in the capital area, says there are suspicions that more than one person was involved in the attack on a man who was a guest at the Samtökin 78 conference Tuesday night.

The patrol vessel Þór and Polarfront in Fonfjord in Greenland.

Patrol vessel Þór with a passenger ship in tow from Greenland

25 Sep 2023 The patrol vessel Þór arrived on the third hour to Reykjavik with the French passenger ship Polarfont in tow from Greenland.

Thought it was farfetched to go on the trip

24 Sep 2023 Last month, eleven adventurous men from Akranes went on a so-called enduro motorcycle trip to the Romanian city of Sibiu. In the group was Sveinbjörn Reyr Hjaltason, who was paralyzed below the chest in a motorcycle accident in the spring of 2020 at the foot of Akrafjall.