26 Jul 2022It looks like a lot of rain and wet weather in the Southern part of Iceland tomorrow, especially close to Eyjafjöll and in Mýrdalur says the meteorologist of The Icelandic Road and Coastal Administration (IRCA), Einar Sveinbjörnsson.
26 Jul 2022Sigurgeir Svanbergsson managed to swim from the Westman Islands to Landeyjasandur to raise money for the Association Barnaheill like he set out to do.
22 Jul 2022During the last twelve months the Customer Price Index (CPI) risen to 9.9% and the index without including properties is 7.5%. This is reported in the latest data from Statistics Iceland.
20 Jul 2022Willum Þór Þórsson the Minister of Health is proposing a bill that decriminalizes small doses of drugs that are clearly for personal use. A very similar bill put forth by the previous Minister of Health, Svandís Svavarsdóttir, did not make it into legislation last year.
20 Jul 2022The Icelandic journalist Valur Gunnarsson was stopped by an army police and taken to a guard post in the Ukranian city Odessa on Monday night. He says the whole ordeal ended well, because the Ukranian know that their only chance of surviving is to maintain the support of Western countries and that means keeping the goodwill of journalists in the country.
15 Jul 2022The writer and filmmaker Sarah Thomas lived in Iceland for a decade and now she has written her memoirs from her stay in the Westfjords in the book The Raven's Nest that was published recently.
14 Jul 2022Downtown Reykjavík is packed, especially the square Ingólfstorg, named after Ingólfur Arnarson, usally seen as the first nordic settler in Iceland. The reason why is that the Icelandic female football team is playing in the UEFA Women's EURO in Manchester, England.
11 Jul 2022The Grandmasters Helgi Ólafsson and Jóhann Hjartarson are certain that the chess table that Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky used when playing the 7.-21st chess matches in the World Chess Championship, or what Icelanders call the Chessbattle of the Century, in Reykjavík in July 1972.
9 Jul 2022The police was called out yesterday when a man attempted to rob a drugstore on Laugavegur at 2:30 PM. The pharmacist Skúli Skúlason was working when the man burst into the drugstore and aimed the gun at him and other staff demanding to get drugs.
8 Jul 2022A nightbus will be back from downtown Reykjavík to different neighbourhoods in the Reykjavík area after a two year hiatus. The bus will run on weekends, Friday night and Saturday night, at least over the summer and it will start tonight after midnight, says in an announcement from Strætó.
7 Jul 2022“There is nothing left,” says Birgir Haukdal Rúnarsson the owner of the boat Gosi KE-102 that caught fire this morning when the boat was two nautical miles north of Rif.
4 Jul 2022With inflation at an all time high and the Central Bank raising the key interest rate up to 4.75% to try to cool the market and get the inflation down, Icelanders will have to pay a lot more into their mortgages every month than before.
3 Jul 2022People who want to visit the southern part of Iceland this summer have a lot of options. Here is a list of nine interesting places to visit, but bear in mind it is just the tip of the Iceberg when it comes to fun things to do in this part of the country.
1 Jul 2022Sales of new cars is up 50% compared to the same time last year. There have 9,268 new cars been sold, but last year at the same time the number was 6,042.
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