28 May 2023When it comes to migration, Iceland claims a top spot in Europe. Why do people from all over the world come to live and work in this rough place in the north Atlantic? Here, five expats share their personal stories, biggest challenges and ideas on how to tackle them.
26 May 2023The short term strikes by pool workers based in the BSRB will likely result in pools having to be closed during the Pentecost weekend. This is stated in the BSRB announcement.
23 May 2023All domestic flights as well as seven Icelandair flights to Europe and the US this afternoon were cancelled due to the weather. Tomorrow’s flights will depend on how the aircraft will be able to get to Iceland today and go again this evening, but in most cases today’s international flights have been moved until later this evening.
20 May 2023Niceair will file for bankruptcy. A press release from Niceair's board of directors stated that the company was severely affected by the failure of the HiFly operator, which caused Niceair to no longer have a plane available.
15 May 2023Preparations for the European Council summit, which will take place in Harpa May 16.-17. of May are being finalized with the summit coming up. The meeting is the largest to be held here since the Reykjavik summit when US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev met in Höfði in Reykjavik October 11-12 in 1986.
15 May 2023Street closures in the city centre for safety reasons for the European Council summit in Harpa that starts tomorrow will affect bus travel. Buses travel along the changed routes from 21 to 19 on Monday until 19 on Wednesday.
11 May 2023Icelandic biotech company Kerecis was awarded the Nordic ScaleUp Awards yesterday, which are awarded to a Nordic innovative company in each country for excellence and revenue growth.
9 May 2023The excitement over the coming Eurovision contest is growing in Iceland, with Iceland’s representative, Diljá Pétursdóttir, getting quite a bit of attention in Liverpool, which hosts Eurovision this year.
6 May 2023The structure of disaster relief in Iceland is unique. Volunteers sacrifice time (and money) to be there when fellow citizens or tourists are in trouble. But why?
4 May 2023The campaign “Use the bike to go to work” was officially launched yesterday morning. The Minister of Health, Willum Þór Þórsson, said the campaign was one of the most significant public health efforts ever launched in decades.
2 May 2023Guðmundur Felix Grétarsson had to undergo a second operation due to an infection that has formed in his arm. This is what he reports in a video on Facebook.
1 May 2023“A few weeks ago I started swelling around my nails and as a result they started falling off,” says Guðmundur Felix Grétarsson in a video entry posted on his Facebook page last Thursday.
28 Apr 2023Iceland is in the forefront of Europe for the fourth consecutive year in terms of the number of optical fibre connections. In total, 76.8 percent of households in Iceland are connected, followed by Spain with 73.6 percent and Portugal with 71.1 percent. Our Nordic cousins Sweden and Norway have 67.5 percent of households with optical fibre connections, Denmark 43 percent and Finland 43 percent.
23 Apr 2023It is now possible to walk behind Seljalandsfoss by Eyjafjöll again, but this is a very popular tourist attraction in this area. This route usually closes in the autumn because when temperatures go beneath freezing, a large chunk of ice is produced, where a spray of water from the high waterfall overflows the area.
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