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Ólafur Jóhann Borgþórsson, priest in Seljakirkja Church, has been hired as the new managing director of Herjólfur Ferry.

The man of God who will lead Herjólfur Ferry

3 Oct "I am from the Westman Islands, so I know Herjólfur's staff well and know that the company is well run. I decided at the time to give it a go and apply for the job, but I have to admit that when I got the call that I got it, it was a big surprise."

According to information from Rarik the power outage is affecting a big part of the country.

Power outages in the North and East

2 Oct A large area of the country is without electricity. The power outage extends from the Westfjords, across the North and all of the Eastfjords. Work is in progress restoring the system.

Ice cave tours can start again

1 Oct The board of Vatnajökull National Park has agreed to allow ice cave tours on the glacier again. There have been no ice cave tours in the area of the national park since an American man died in an accident during such a trip on Breiðamerkurjökull glacier at the end of August.

Has founded a new political party

30 Sep Arnar Þór Jónsson, a lawyer and former presidential candidate, has founded a new political party called Lýðræðisflokkurinn or the Democratic Party - an organization for self-determination.

According to scientists, lava shields form in one long eruption.

The chance of a shield eruption seems to be increasing

30 Sep The probability of a shield eruption in the Sundhnúkagígar crater row increases with time. That would mean that the Reykjanesbraut Road is not the only infrastructure on the Reykjanes Peninsula that is in danger. Such an eruption could last for several years or even decades.

Overturned a false confession in England

29 Sep "In 1991, I was asked to give an IQ test to Oliver Campbell, there were two of us who came up with this, a psychiatrist and I, and my part was somewhat limited," says Gísli Guðjónsson, professor emeritus of forensic psychology at King's College University in London and expert in false confessions, in an interview with Morgunblaðið about a more than a three-decade-old case that turned an innocent man's life upside down.

One of the areas where ÞG Verk is building is in Urriðaholt in Garðabær.

Signs of a cooling housing market

26 Sep Þorvaldur Gissurarson, the CEO of ÞG Verk, says that the housing market has cooled down in recent weeks. However, it is premature to draw too many conclusions based on the sales of the last few weeks. A real estate agent that Morgunblaðið spoke to said the same thing, that the market had been slowing down recently. He believed that the main explanation was that the banks had raised interest rates on indexed housing loans.

The owners of the circular economy stores say that this is the future of commerce in Iceland.

They think they have changed the purchasing behavior of Icelanders

22 Sep So-called circular economy shops are becoming increasingly popular in this country, and in most of them, you have to book a stand several months in advance. A circular economy shop is a store where you can shop and sell used items such as clothing, shoes, and household goods. Usually the seller rents a booth, and sets up the products, but does not have to be on duty himself. The service to the seller then varies between stores.

The polar bear was taken down with one shot.

The only way was to kill the bear

20 Sep The only way to ensure the safety of people on Höfðaströnd was to kill the polar bear that walked ashore there yesterday. This is what Hlynur Hafberg Snorrason, a senior police officer at the police in Vestfjörður, says in an interview with mbl.is.

Grímur Grímsson, yfirlögregluþjónn miðlægrar rannsóknardeildar á höfuðborgarsvæðinu.

Nothing to suggest that the father kidnapped his daughter

17 Sep "There is nothing to suggest other than that they were in normal communication that day and he had permission to be with his daughter," says Grímur Grímsson, senior police officer of the central investigation department in the capital area, about the man who is now in police custody as a suspect about killing his 10-year-old daughter Sunday night.

The deportation of Yazan Tamini was halted yesterday morning and the case is being discussed by the government.

Yazan was moved to the hospital again

17 Sep A request came from within the government for further discussion on the deportation of Yazan Tamimi before he was deported yesterday. Minister of Justice Guðrún Hafsteinsdóttir agreed to that request.

Watched giant icebergs in the sunset

15 Sep "It was absolutely magnificent and one of the most beautiful things I've seen in Iceland," says Pálmar Ragnarsson in an interview with mbl.is.

Þórður Bragason was just a few minutes behind the bus when the fire broke out.

"No one would have run away from this"

13 Sep The bus that caught fire earlier today on the road around Tungudal in Skutulsfjörður had caught fire in Vestfjarða tunnel, according to an eyewitness to the incident.

Air pollution from volcanic eruptions can cause drowsiness, headaches, eye and throat irritation as well as mild flu symptoms.

Danger of a volcanic smog today

31 Aug "It is quite possible that we will again measure gas pollution like last night," says Salóme Jórunn Bernharðsdóttir, natural hazard expert at the Icelandic Meteorological Office, in an interview with mbl.is, but a lot of air pollution was measured in Vogur, both due to sulfur dioxide (SO2) from the eruption and particulate matter due to wildfires and volcanic smog.

Gylfi Magnússon,professor of economics at the University of Iceland.

Would not go so far as to claim a crisis

30 Aug GDP decreased in the second quarter, and this is therefore the second quarter in a row where there is a contraction. However, an economist does not want to go so far as to say that the economy is nearing depression.