Ice buildup after snowplows couldnt get through
Thick ice ridges formed on main roads in Reykjavík during this week’s snowstorm, while nearby municipalities were less…
October 31, 2025Thick ice ridges formed on main roads in Reykjavík during this week’s snowstorm, while nearby municipalities were less…
Sara Smith October 31, 2025The Ring Road is currently closed at Fagurhólsmýri due to severe weather, as well as on the stretch under Eyjafjöll an…
Sara Smith October 31, 2025The Krambúðin convenience store in Urriðaholt, Garðabær, will offer customers a 50% discount on all products starting …
Sara Smith October 30, 2025“This car wouldn’t give him any room. Then the driver just started bumping into him,” says Pétur Jóhannesson in an int…
Sara Smith October 30, 2025Traffic is moving slowly across the capital area, and delays can be expected, according to the Icelandic Road and Coas…
Sara Smith October 30, 2025“I know very few people who would want to buy an apartment in a multi-family building that doesn’t have parking,” says…
Sara Smith October 28, 2025Yesterday marked seventy years since Iceland gained its first Nobel laureate, when, on October 27, 1955, the Swedish A…
Sara Smith October 28, 2025A blizzard system southwest of Iceland is rapidly moving toward the country. Forecasts indicate 24-hour snowfall of 20…
Sara Smith October 27, 2025The Dagrenning Search and Rescue Team from Hvolsvöllur and the Air Rescue Team from Hella were called out yesterday to…
Sara Smith October 27, 2025It was a deeply emotional moment when a Coast Guard helicopter landed in Flateyri yesterday, October 26, 2025 — exactl…
Sara Smith October 27, 2025On the slopes of Eyrarfjall, a dedicated group of workers is hard at work six days a week building new avalanche defen…
Sara Smith October 26, 2025Motorists are being advised to drive carefully this evening and overnight, as driving conditions are expected to worse…
Sara Smith October 26, 2025The BBC has come under heavy criticism from residents of Grindavík after publishing a story under the headline “Icelan…
Sara Smith October 25, 2025Women and non-binary people were encouraged yesterday to stop all paid and unpaid work for the entire day, just as wom…
Sara Smith October 25, 2025Minister of Tourism Hanna Katrín Friðriksson and Bogi Nils Bogason, CEO of Icelandair, agree that Iceland must stop re…
Sara Smith October 24, 2025“This is a tremendous blow. Our standard of living in Iceland is built on producing value and exporting it to foreign …
Sara Smith October 24, 2025Nearly five thousand apartments may be underused in Reykjavík, while the number could be just over one thousand in bot…
Sara Smith October 23, 2025Emphasis will be placed on accelerating preparations for a trade agreement between Greenland and Iceland, and the Prim…
Sara Smith October 23, 2025Kolbrún Áslaug Baldursdóttir, MP for the People’s Party, brought attention in Parliament today to a conference on viol…
Sara Smith October 22, 2025At around 04:50 this morning, an earthquake of magnitude 3.1 was measured west of Kleifarvatn, in Móhálsadalur.
Sara Smith October 22, 2025Petra Bender is a trained fashion designer from Parsons School of Design in New York. Before that, she studied textile…
Sara Smith October 21, 2025It has been almost two and a half years since an earthquake swarm similar to the one yesterday was measured in Mýrdals…
Sara Smith October 20, 2025The Icelandic Meteorological Office warns that winter conditions can be expected on mountain roads in many parts of th…
Sara Smith October 20, 2025A strong series of earthquakes began around 10:30 a.m. in Mýrdalsjökull.
Sara Smith October 20, 2025“In the old days there used to be a small shop, a little store, and a gas station here in Laugarás. It was more of a s…
Sara Smith October 19, 2025Several employees at the telecommunications and media company Sýn were laid off yesterday as part of a company-wide re…
Sara Smith October 18, 2025A new infrastructure tax on cruise ship passengers has led to a sharp decline in ship visits and significant revenue l…
Sara Smith October 17, 2025Finance Minister Daði Már Kristófersson will soon reintroduce a bill that, if passed, could make housing loans more af…
Sara Smith October 17, 2025About a thousand photographs have been taken of Skaftafellsjökull over the past year as part of Jöklasýn (“Extreme Ice…
Sara Smith October 16, 2025Once again, the main and children’s pools at Vesturbæjarlaug have had to be closed due to maintenance work. In recent …
Sara Smith October 16, 2025Guests at Laugarás Lagoon, a new bathing lagoon opening today, will be greeted by beautiful views over the river Hvítá…
Sara Smith October 15, 2025Over 2,000 participants from nearly 70 countries will take part in the Arctic Circle Assembly, which opens tomorrow, T…
Sara Smith October 15, 2025The volume of magma accumulated beneath Svartsengi has now exceeded the level it reached before the most recent erupti…
Sara Smith October 15, 2025U.S. President Donald Trump told Icelandic Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir, in an informal conversation, that the…
Sara Smith October 14, 2025“How Iceland’s tourism bubble finally burst.”
Sara Smith October 14, 2025After more than two months at a treatment center in South Africa, the 15-year-old son of María Sif Ericsdóttir is, for…
Sara Smith October 13, 2025emperatures could reach up to 18°C in parts of northeastern Iceland today. Winds will be from the south and southwest …
Sara Smith October 13, 2025Björn Pétursson — better known as Axlar-Björn — is the only confirmed serial killer born in Iceland. Yet accounts diff…
Sara Smith October 12, 2025Dozens of small earthquakes east of Sýlingafell last night suggest that the wait for the next eruption on the Reykjane…
Sara Smith October 12, 2025The decline of democracy is increasingly visible around the world — and experts warn that Iceland may not be immune to…
Sara Smith October 11, 2025Civil protection response plans for South Iceland have been updated in preparation for potential volcanic eruptions an…
Sara Smith October 11, 2025All subscribers to Morgunblaðið — both current and new — now receive unlimited access to The New York Times for twelve…
Sara Smith October 10, 2025Seventy years after Halldór Laxness received the Nobel Prize in Literature and ninety years after the publication of I…
Sara Smith October 09, 2025“This is a historic day — one that gives us hope for the people of Palestine and for the release of the hostages. That…
Sara Smith October 09, 2025The Environment and Energy Agency of Iceland will impose an administrative fine on the bankruptcy estate of Play for u…
Sara Smith October 09, 2025“The defendant has confessed to his role in the case concerning a 63-year-old woman who was shot to death in her home …
Sara Smith October 08, 2025The family of Margrét Kristín Blöndal, better known as Magga Stína, is urging the Icelandic government to do everythin…
Sara Smith October 08, 2025The Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Iceland has decided to keep the bank’s interest rates unchanged.…
Sara Smith October 08, 2025Increased visible steam has been observed along the national highway through Hveradalir.
Sara Smith October 08, 2025The Independence Party branch in Grindavík passed a resolution at its annual meeting this evening outlining plans to r…
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