22 DecDirector Þorleifur Örn Arnarsson and visual artist Erna Mist Yamagata are creating their world in a new home. They met over a year ago and are now working together for the first time on Tennessee Williams’s play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which will premiere at the City Theatre on December 28. The couple is expecting a child in January, but Arnarson has a 13-year-old son from a previous marriage.
11 DecThe experience of a phone-free zone in Akureyri's primary schools has been good this first semester, but a phone agreement was implemented at the beginning of the school year.
10 DecThere is a lot of trust between the leaders of the Social Democratic Alliance, the Liberal Reform Party, and the People's Party. It would take something unusual to happen for the parties to fail to form a government. Inga Sæland, the leader of the People's Party, hopes that a government will be formed before Christmas and she believes discussions on the division of ministries may begin tomorrow.
3 DecKristrún Frostadóttir, chair of the Social Democratic Alliance, plans to meet with the chairmen of the Liberal Reform Party and the People's Party at 3 pm today to discuss government formation.
2 DecYellow warnings come into effect across the country today or tonight, including in the capital area, South Iceland, the Westfjords, and in Breiðafjörður. Snowfall and poor driving conditions can be expected. Traffic could be disrupted, especially on mountain roads.
2 DecKristrún Frostadóttir, the leader of the Social Democratic Party, was reluctant to reveal which leaders of other parties she had been talking to when she spoke briefly to the media after she met with Halla Tómasdóttir, the President of Iceland, in Bessastaðir.
30 NovThe country is in the Christmas spirit this first weekend of Advent and there are a variety of Christmas related activities on offer all over the country.
29 Nov“Given how this looks in the media, of course, you are not sitting at the negotiating table yourself, but our children have been at home for four weeks without anything happening. I think it is inexcusable and we want an explanation for this.”
28 NovState mediator Ástráður Haraldsson says that there is still a long way to go in the wage dispute between teachers and the state, but the parties to the dispute met at the State Conciliation and Mediation Office (SCMO) at 9 am this morning.
28 Nov“This was finally achieved and we left the negotiating table very amicably last night,” says Steinunn Þórðardóttir, chairman of the Icelandic Medical Association, but agreements were reached in the wage dispute between doctors and the state and at other times last night.
23 NovThe police chief in Suðurnes requested the assistance of the rescue team last night in asking people to respect the recommendation not to go to the eruption in Sundhnúkagígar crater row.
22 NovThe lava flow that is now flowing along the defense walls and yesterday crossed the parking lots at the Blue Lagoon has reached a natural threshold just south of where the parking lots were and are starting to flow to the west.
21 NovÁsrún Helga Kristinsdóttir, president of Grindavík's town council, says it was a surprise that the eruption should start now. Her husband and older daughter had to evacuate Grindavík under loud siren blasts.
15 NovKristján Kristjánsson, manager at Árekstur.is (traffic collision helpline), says the phone has been ringing off the hook for about three hours. He asks people to drive carefully.
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