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Big fire in Hafnarfjörður yesterday

21 Aug 2023 A large fire in a building on Hvaleyrarbraut in Hafnarfjörður, Iceland, took place yesterday and firefighters were battling the fire until the fifth hour of the night. Birgir Finnsson, acting fire chief for the Reykjavík Metropolitan Fire Department, told mbl.is last night that the premises are probably completely destroyed.

Andrea Kolbeinsdóttir at the finishing line, the first of Icelandic women in the race and in 7th place overall. In spite of hitting the dreaded 30 kilometre wall her time was improved by 5 minutes.

"Then I just got my feet shot"

20 Aug 2023 “We had already decided, four runners to go out in 3:44:02 and it was just going incredibly well, we stayed together right up to thirty kilometres,” says Andrea Kolbeinsdóttir, who became the most successful Icelandic woman in the Reykjavík Marathon yesterday, and also came seventh in the overall standings of all participants that were about 11,000. By 3:44:02 she meant minutes per kilometre, not the total time of the race.

The anthropology professor and writer, Jason Pine, has fallen in love with Iceland and wants to live here when he retires.

Mafiosos and metamphetamine

19 Aug 2023 Jason Pine, a college teacher who flees from his native New York City each summer, goes to Iceland says he enjoys the quiet in the North. Jason, who now lives in Akureyri, spends his spare time building a house on the other side of the fjord in Vaðlaheidi. When he has time off, he enjoys nature and works on his novels. One is about his Hungarian grandparents, another about Monika in Merkigil farm, and a third is a crime novel about an American who builds a house in Iceland. It’s obvious where he gets that idea from!

Downtown closed for vehicles on Saturday

17 Aug 2023 Culture Night will be held this Saturday, August 19, when Reykjavík celebrates its 237th anniversary. The festival itself has now been celebrated for 28 years.

Miðja landrissins virðist vera undir norðvesturhluta Öskjuvatns, hér fjær fyrir miðri mynd, sem tekin var úr lofti síðdegis í gær.

Land continues to rise in Askja lake

17 Aug 2023 Land continues to rise at Askja lake and the slope from the water’s center continues to increase. This indicates the first results of surface measurements at the lake. A journalist and a photographer for Morgunblaðið accompanied scientists to Askja and Víti for annual measurements yesterday.

The US tourist Sofya Vasilyeva had a serious snomobile accident on Langjökull glacier last Friday. She says she is getting better though.

"I thought I was dead"

15 Aug 2023 American tourist Sofya Vasileva suffered a wound to her liver following a motor accident at Langjökull glacier on Friday. However, she says she is on the mend and said she is stunned by the quality of Iceland’s healthcare.

The young people from the queer youth centre were working hard on their carriage for the Pride Parade tomorrow.

Biggest Pride Parade carriage this year

11 Aug 2023 Youths from the Queer Youth Centre are fully prepared for their carriage for tomorrow’s walk. Viktor Lucaforte, a member of the youth center, says the kids are great and extremely imaginative and creative. The idea is that the carriage is colourful, inviting celebration but also having an important message to give.

"There are drivers who drive passengers, and most importantly tourists, without adequate permits," Skúlason says.

Foreign drivers driving and working without any permits

8 Aug 2023 A Chinese citizen was stopped by police in Hafnarfjörður this weekend, where he was driving passengers in a bus. It turned out that the driver was not licensed to drive in this country, he had no work permit, was not using a tachograph, and finally the vehicle was still on winter tires with studs.

Theódórsson likes to have fun on his trips.

Paradise up north, Disney style

7 Aug 2023 Júlíus Freyr Theódórsson is a guide at Adventures By Disney in Iceland. Júlíus gets to work on what he likes most, and he says that the Northern part of Iceland frequently stands out for his guests.

The President of Iceland, Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, will be an honorary guest at the Wacken Open Air Festival i Germany this weekend.

We need to defend Asgard and Valhalla

4 Aug 2023 The President of Iceland, Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, will be as many Icelanders this weekend present at an outdoor festival. However, it is neither the popular “Þjóðhátíð” in the Westman Islansd, nor “Innipúkinn” festival in Reykjavík because the President is going to rock like never before in the heavy metal festival Wacken Open Air in Germany.

Many people go to the eruption site, but scientists think that the eruption is slowly decreasing.

Open to the eruption site today

4 Aug 2023 “The closing of hiking trails went well yesterday, but every day, some tourists need the help of a first responder,” says the report of the Suðurnes police on the situation in the eruption area at Litli-Hrútur, where police review the rules governing the movement of the public through the area.

The wheelchair bike has brought Sunna Valdís Sigurðardóttir að lot of joy and she wants to ride it every day.

llegal to deny this aid according to the Ombudsman of Alþingi

30 Jul 2023 Iceland’s health insurance did not comply with the law when they refused to grant a subsidies payment to Sunna Valdís Sigurðardóttir, who has a rare neurological condition, for the purchase of a tricycle that would allow her to ride by herself.

Alda Áskelsdóttir and her son, Hrafn Steinar, at the eruption site earlier this week.

Hills are no problems for electric bikes

29 Jul 2023 When you go through the Meradalir route towards the eruption at Litli-Hrútur, hikers are the vast majority, but there are also a growing number of cyclists.

The art piece was supposed to be on display in Höfn until mid August.

Art piece stolen in the middle of the night

27 Jul 2023 A strange incident occurred in Höfn in Hornafjörður recently when an outdoor artwork by the artist Áslaug Thorlacius vanished during one night. The exhibition was set for June 22, but was supposed to last until mid-August.

Lava moving in a closed transport system underground can spread much further

24 Jul 2023 Volcanologist Þorvaldur Þórðarson says the lava in the eruption area at Litli-Hrútur has not entirely reached the underground, but it is now flowing through a closed transport system to the edge of the growth. This means that the lava will stay warmer and may move further, over a larger area. However, the fact that it is now in a closed system does not mean that it will not reopen.