17 Dec 2022Today, Saturday December 17th at 2-4pm an art auction will be held in Iðnó, where guests can support refugee children by investing in pieces of art and enjoying musical entertainment. Many different artworks will be available at the auction, including works by many of our best artists, but there will also be works by children that want to make a difference and help refugee children.
13 Dec 2022The installation of warning and information signs in Reynisfjara Black Beach is completed. In addition to the signs, a 300-metre long chain was installed along the parking lot, leading people along a footpath and past the signs. Police cameras were installed on a mast in the beach bar. Images from there are streamed to the South Iceland Police’s guard office in Selfoss.
4 Dec 2022The photographer Gunnar Freyr Gunnarsson now has his own space on the travel website Rexby.com, a site where influencers, photographers and other travelers alike share their expertise. Gunnar is known for the Icelandic Explorer site, among other things.
3 Dec 2022Hilmar Oddsson’s film, ‘Driving Mum’, received the Grand Prix, the PÖFF’s main-prize, at the Black Nights Film Festival in Tallinn, Estonia, last weekend. The film stars Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson and Kristbjörg Kjeld, with important roles played by Hera Hilmarsdóttir and Tómas Lemarquis. Hilmar Oddsson is the director and he also wrote the script and Hlín Jóhannesdóttir is the producer.
30 Nov 2022A man attacked his ex-wife with an axe in front of Dalskóli in Úlfarsárdalur valley this afternoon. This is confirmed by Margeir Sveinsson the assistant chief police officer to mbl.is.
29 Nov 2022The government plans to increase funding for law enforcement by ISK 2.5 billion from the previously reported budget, which is more increase than has been dedicated to law enforcement for years. The biggest change is the increased contribution to the police, which will amount to ISK 1.4 billion, if the parliament agrees to the proposals.
26 Nov 2022"This was out of this world, not just to see the launch but to feel the thunder and roar from the rocket. It will take me a long time to process that," says Daniel Leeb, the director of Iceland Space Agency. He was present when the NASA SLS rocket Artemis I was launched from the Kennedy Space Center of NASA in Cape Canaveral in Florida on November 16th.
23 Nov 2022The US Embassy in Iceland posted on their Facebook page a warning to US tourists travelling in Iceland and asked them to be careful in downtown Reykjavík.
22 Nov 2022“We started this project six months ago and the goal was to set up 250 ramps every year. This year we have exceeded that goal and have already put up 300 ramps,” says Haraldur Þorleifsson, the founder of the initiative “Ramp up Iceland” which was started to make access easier for citizens in wheelchairs.
15 Nov 2022Bjarni Benediktsson, the Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, says that it would have been completely unrealistic to try to chase the price in the government’s subsequent offer of shares in Íslandsbanki to 122 ISK per share.
12 Nov 2022The actress Jodie Foster is staying in Reykjavík these days and weeks. She is in the middle of shooting the HBO TV show True Detective, the fourth season here in Iceland. In the show Foster is the leading lady.
7 Nov 2022Bjarni Benediktsson, Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, got 59 percent of the votes for the leading position in the Independence Party whereas his challenger, Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson, the Minister of Environment, Energy and Climate, got 40% of the votes.
6 Nov 2022“I started photographing birds seriously in 1999. I had always been interested in birds, but it had been laying dormant for quite some time. But at that time the interest just resurfaced and there was no turning back. When you spend hours and hours with birds, like photographers have to do, the fascination comes back. I applied for a permit in 2000 to photograph both eagles and a falcons,” says Daniel Bermann. With permits in hand he went out with his gear and set up close but in safe distance from a falcon nest.
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