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This is what the golf course looked like yesterday.

"Thought this was a lot worse"

15 Nov 2023 “The golf course looks incredible considering the conditions and what’s happened in the last few days. I thought it would be much worse,” says Helgi Dan Steinsson, CEO of the Grindavík Golf Club, who had just returned from a field trip around the golf course in Grindavík when mbl.is contacted him.

Video: Products fell off the shelves and the store was evacuated

10 Nov 2023 Products fell from shelves in the largest earthquakes today in Nettó in Grindavík. The decision was made to evacuate the store and close it shortly before the usual closing time.

Þórðarson says that it is vitally important to secure the infrastructure in the area, even if the worst scenario might not happen now.

60% chance of an eruption soon

9 Nov 2023 Þorvaldur Þórðarson, professor of volcanology and rock science at the University of Iceland, says that building a defensive wall around Svartsengi is not something that should wait.

Land has been rising fast near Svartsengi powerplant and the Blue Lagoon in recent days.

"Coming close to an eruption"

3 Nov 2023 “I’m scared that we’re coming close to an eruption,” says Þorvaldur Þórðarson, a professor of volcanology and rock science, when asked for his opinion on the morning’s earthquake on the Reykjanes peninsula.

Last night an information meeting took place for the residents of Grindavík because of the series of earthquakes in the Reykjanes peninsula.

Calls for serious action on behalf of the Department of Civil Protection

3 Nov 2023 Egill Sigmundsson, the division manager of electricity at HS Veitur, encourages the Department of Civil Protection and Emergency Management to take further measures to prevent the danger that might arise for the people of Grindavík and the vicinity in the event of a volcanic eruption that would impact or close down the construction of the Svartsengi power plant.

The northern lights in Skjálfandaflói this week.

The future is bright – and green

1 Nov 2023 Baldur Haukur Júlíusson, director of the service for guides at Kynnisferðir, says that the attendance rate for northern lights tours has been very good lately. “We have had great weather recently and the weather continues to be good for northern lights tours. Everyone is happy,” he says.

Most of the attacks come from Russian IP addresses.

Constant cyber attacks on the energy sector

26 Oct 2023 The largest energy companies in the country are now conducting a joint cybersecurity exercise. The participants are also representatives of the government, the Energy Authority, CERT-IS and civil defense. The exercise will be attended by KraftCERT, a consultancy company that works for the energy sector in Norway and has been instrumental in building better cybersecurity in Iceland in the last few years.

The solidarity meeting of women and genderqueers at Arnarhóll yesterday had a great turnout and it is estimated that around 1/4 of the nation was in downtown Reykjavik protesting.

Hopes that this message goes worldwide

25 Oct 2023 Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir says that the women’s strike and yesterday’s protests are an encouragement to the government to do better in gender equality. There is still an opportunity to achieve full equality by 2030.

Ásmundur Rúnar Gylfason, deputy sheriff of the police and the manager of the police station downtown estimates that the crowd might be bigger than on Culture Night, but does not foresee any traffic problems, because a lot of the women clearly came walking to the event.

A bigger crowd than on Culture Night

24 Oct 2023 There was a huge crowd in downtown Reykjavík, where a women’s strike was held. A deputy-sheriff says that there was no less crowd in downtown as a whole than there is, for example, on cultural night. It should be kept in mind, though, that the crowds were much more congested than in general when there are larger festivals in town.

Leading up to the meeting at Arnarhóll a crowd of women and genderqueers were filling up Arnarhóll.

The turnout at Arnarhóll is huge

24 Oct 2023 Women and the genderqueers are now coming in large numbers down to the city center of Reykjavik to Arnarhóll where the formal programme of the women’s strike started at 14 AM.

From the Women's Strike Day in 2018 at Arnarhóll in downtown Reykjavik.

Everything about the Women's Strike tomorrow

23 Oct 2023 Street-closures will be in central Reykjavík from 11 AM tomorrow due to a schedule around a women’s strike and in front of Arnarhóll traffic will be closed from 18 AM.

Ragnar Jónasson's latest book Hvítalogn (White Calm) is coming to bookstores this week, but he has a lot of different projects on the horizon.

A crime novelist disappears

22 Oct 2023 At the top floor in the eaves of a beautiful house in the old part of downtown Reykjavik called Thingholt sits crime writer Ragnar Jónasson busy writing. He is now writing his first ghost story, which takes place in a similar house as he is working in, making it a perfect place to get an inspiration. The journalist is sitting across from Jónasson and suddenly she hears a strange, subdued sound. “Probably a ghost,” says Jónasson, smiling in his slow manner.

The Prime Minister, Katrín Jakobsdóttir, says she will not work next Tuesday, Women's Day to show solidarity with women in the country for equal pay.

"I will not work on Women's Day"

20 Oct 2023 Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir says she will not work on Women’s day next Tuesday as many other women. She says she will not call a cabinet meeting on that day and that she expects other women in the cabinet to stay home as well.

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.