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If people get stuck outside the marked route to the eruption site, the only way to get them is by helicopter. However, that might not even be possible in all cases.

Not always possible to save people if they get stuck outside the marked path

12 Jul 2023 There were seven cases of people who had been injured or just exhausted at the eruption site yesterday and last night, according to Jón Þór Víglundsson, information officer for ICE-SAR Landsbjörg.

Staff threatened with violence and feel unsafe

12 Jul 2023 The staff of the City Library in downtown Reykjavik are experiencing fear because of people coming into the library, often in an intoxicated state. The staff have been threatened with violence and they have had to call the police and even the Special Unit to overcome an armed individual in the library.

Calling for a raise... of the key interest rate!

9 Jul 2023 Many people were flabbergasted when witnessing a rather unusual protest as they drove past a roundabout at Hveragerði yesterday. There, Haukur Þorkell Unnarsson stood outside in the middle of the roundabout protesting against the key interest rate. Unlike many, Unnarsson was calling for a significant raise of the key interest.

Tourists helped down from Selhnjúkur

7 Jul 2023 Rescue teams rescued a family who were stuck at Selhnjúkur yesterday. The operation went well and all made it safely down the mountain.

A bus destroyed in a fire at Þingvellir

6 Jul 2023 There was a fire in a tour bus from Viking Bus on Gjábakkavegur east of Lake Þingvallavatn yesterday.

Keilir mountain on the Reykjanes peninsula. The magma might get to the surface somewhere between Fagradalsfjall mountain and Keilir mountain.

Eruption could be sooner than later

5 Jul 2023 In terms of seismic activity, the magma is located on the Reykjanes peninsula at a depth of about two kilometres. In terms of the scenario from the previous two volcanic eruptions on the Reykjanes peninsula, the eruption could occur in less than five days.

An earthquake of magnitude 4.8 occurred in the eastern part of Fagradalsfjall this morning.

Declare an alert phase in Reykjanes peninsula

5 Jul 2023 The State Police Commissioner in agreement with the Police Chief in Suðurnes has expressed the level of civil protection uncertainty over the earthquake-prone region of the Reykjanes peninsula.

All kinds of adventures in Flatey island

3 Jul 2023 If you want to experience something extra special this summer, then Flatey in Breiðafjörður should be your destination. It is easy to go to the island with Baldur ferry from Stykkishólmur or from Brjánslækur. The island is beautiful and full of adventures.

President Vigdís was his role model

1 Jul 2023 “I just think Iceland is so beautiful and I love the way the language sounds,” says award-winning author and Danish teacher Allan van Hansen, who is completing a four-week Icelandic course at the University of Iceland.

Aircraft wreckage sold due to tourist encroachment

23 Jun 2023 A wreckage of a plane, that has been lying in Sauðanes Airport in Langanes since the plane crashed there in 1969, has been sold. The aircraft was moved to the other side of the country to its new owners on Friday.

The design of the new helicopter of Norðurflug is excellent with great view for the passengers.

New observation helicopter in Iceland

22 Jun 2023 A new observation helicopter landed at Reykjavík Airport on Tuesday. The helicopter is manufactured by Airbus and it is Norðurflug who bought the helicopter, the value of which is over 200 million ISK. The helicopter is comparable to a helicopter the company bought in 2018. “It’s a big investment for our company,” says Birgir Ómar Haraldsson, managing director of Norðurflug.

3,500 people watched the film outside

21 Jun 2023 The film Northern Comfort, directed by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson, was recently screened before 3,500 spectators in the open air in Transylvania in Romania.

Gunnarsson and his guide dog Max. Gunnarsson claims that the Icelandic government is discriminating against the disabled by making them pay a hefty fee for bringing their guide dogs with them.

"Denying disabled people access to their country except in return for payment"

20 Jun 2023 “A solution to the matter has been found within the ministry, so Már Gunnarsson will not have to bear the cost of the dog,” according to a response from the Ministry of Food, in response to a case by Már Gunnarsson, an Icelandic student in England, an accomplished sportsman and musician, whose case involves his guide dog, Max.

Agnar Sverrisson is over the moon having received a Michelin star for Moss Restaurant in the Blue Lagoon.

Moss Restaurant receives a Michelin star

12 Jun 2023 The restaurant Moss in the Blue Lagoon has been awarded the coveted Michelin star. This was announced this afternoon at a formal celebration in Helsinki.

Barbara Grilz knew she had to move to Iceland after her first trip here. She did and now lives in Fáskrúðsfjörður.

Found love in an old power station

11 Jun 2023 During a heat wave in East Iceland in May, in a temperature of fifteen degrees, a the journalist drove from Borgarfjörður east to Egilsstaðir. The mountains are high and majestic and the heath is wide and nowhere more perfect to enjoy music and the view of the scenery under the clear blue sky. A green shed by the roadside caught the attention of the journalist, beside which a small yellow pick-up table surrounded by a green lattice was placed. A car stalled on the roadside, and one woman was looking around. In the middle of the day, I was hardly expecting to encounter something that looked at first like the smallest coffee shop in the world but turned out to be a solar powered coca cola vending machine. I hit the brakes and turned around to investigate, encountering the German citizen Barbara, who knew everything about the vending machine. The reporter’s curiosity for the vending machine soon gave way to the woman herself, as it turned out she had a story to tell. This is how it happened that two strange women sitting alone together on top of the heath, one telling he other about her life.