Bus Rapid Transit a more cost-effective option
A bus rapid transit (BRT) system in the capital area would be far cheaper and more cost-effective than the so-called B…
February 28, 2026A bus rapid transit (BRT) system in the capital area would be far cheaper and more cost-effective than the so-called B…
Sara Smith February 28, 2026The Central Bank of Iceland has raised serious concerns about a bill proposing to link benefit payments to the wage in…
Sara Smith February 28, 2026Twelve-month inflation measured 5.2 percent, unchanged between months.
Sara Smith February 27, 2026Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir said it was shocking and overwhelming to stand in Maidan Square in Kyiv yesterday…
Sara Smith February 27, 2026A total of 16,692 Icelanders used metabolic medications such as Wegovy and Saxenda for weight management in 2025, payi…
Sara Smith February 27, 2026All of the people injured when a minibus and a passenger car collided at the intersection of Biskupstungnabraut and La…
Sara Smith February 27, 2026“All of a sudden, a flood of slush and ice came over the guardrail,” said Hilmar Andrésson, who experienced the fright…
Sara Smith February 26, 2026Twelve-month inflation measured 5.2 percent, unchanged between months.
Sara Smith February 26, 2026Due to a poor weather forecast, police in East Iceland requested that the rescue teams Vopni in Vopnafjörður, Stefán in…
Sara Smith February 25, 2026Due to a poor weather forecast, police in East Iceland requested that the rescue teams Vopni in Vopnafjörður, Stefán in…
Sara Smith February 25, 2026Landowners at Reynisfjara Black Beach have removed map and warning signs at the beach to prevent them from being damag…
Sara Smith February 24, 2026Landowners at Reynisfjara Black Beach have removed map and warning signs at the beach to prevent them from being damag…
Sara Smith February 24, 2026Around 30–40 firefighters took part in extinguishing the brush fire in Kópavogur yesterday. The acting chief of the Ca…
Sara Smith February 23, 2026A total of 16,692 Icelanders used metabolic medications such as Wegovy and Saxenda for weight management in 2025, payi…
Sara Smith February 23, 2026Dozens of firefighters fought a brush fire that broke out near Elliðavatn shortly before 4 p.m. yesterday. At first, t…
Sara Smith February 23, 2026It is believed that the earthly remains of Lúðvík Pétursson lie under a gravel pile in a crack that he fell into while…
Sara Smith February 22, 2026Two thousand people were trapped in a landslide near Eyjafjöll mountains last night and needed the help of rescue team…
Sara Smith February 22, 2026Two thousand people were trapped in a landslide near Eyjafjöll mountains last night and needed the help of rescue team…
Sara Smith February 22, 2026Rescue teams in South Iceland transported about 30 people from two buses that went off the road near Uxafótalækur, eas…
Sara Smith February 21, 2026An Icelandic TikTok user known by the username ekkitommi posted a video in which he playfully tricks his father.
Sara Smith February 21, 2026The Icelandic Meteorological Office has issued a yellow warning for a northeasterly snowstorm in Southeast Iceland thi…
Sara Smith February 21, 2026The Court of Appeal has sentenced Gedirninas Saulys to ten years in prison for a serious assault that led to a man’s d…
Sara Smith February 20, 2026Two employees at the Miðbær Primary Health Care Clinic in downtown Reykjavik tested positive for tuberculosis bacteria…
Sara Smith February 20, 2026Police in the capital area are investigating an incident that occurred on Ash Wednesday at Smáralind, where a middle-a…
Sara Smith February 20, 2026A new record was set in the Hvalfjörður Tunnel last year, when 3.315 million vehicles passed through — the highest num…
Sara Smith February 20, 2026Absence due to illness among public sector employees is twice as common as in the private sector, and the direct cost …
Sara Smith February 19, 2026There was no shortage of Ash Wednesday cheer at Smáralind yesterday, as hundreds of children arrived smiling in their …
Sara Smith February 19, 2026Nearly 74% of apartments in the capital area were sold in December at prices lower than the listed asking price, compa…
Sara Smith February 19, 2026Members of the air rescue team in Varmahlíð assisted foreign tourists last night after their Dacia Duster became stuck…
Sara Smith February 18, 2026Tómas J. Gestsson, CEO of Heimsferðir, says it is true that the owners of Kúbuferðir had warned him about the situatio…
Sara Smith February 18, 2026The amount of magma beneath Svartsengi continues to increase, with about 22 million cubic meters having accumulated si…
Sara Smith February 18, 2026Chefs around the country were busy yesterday preparing salted lamb and cooking split pea soup — the meal that will be …
Sara Smith February 17, 2026Chefs around the country were busy yesterday preparing salted lamb and cooking split pea soup — the meal that will be …
Sara Smith February 17, 2026The Ísólfur search and rescue team from Seyðisfjörður came to the aid of a group of people whose car became stuck on F…
Sara Smith February 16, 2026Today there will be a northerly wind, generally 3–10 m/s in the west but 13–18 m/s in the east.
Sara Smith February 16, 2026Cream Bun Day, or Bolludagur, is celebrated tomorrow, February 16 and it has become one of Iceland’s foremost dessert …
Sara Smith February 15, 2026Lilja Dögg Alfreðsdóttir has been elected chair of the Progressive Party, taking over the role from Sigurður Ingi Jóha…
Sara Smith February 15, 2026Bun Day, or Bolludagur, is celebrated tomorrow, February 16 and it has become one of Iceland’s foremost dessert days. …
Sara Smith February 15, 2026Olympian Jakobína Valdís Jakobsdóttir is heading to Italy, where she will attend the women’s slalom and giant slalom e…
Sara Smith February 14, 2026Emil Hrafn Steinsson, an officer in the Swedish Air Force, is half Icelandic and half Swedish. He is one of the 110 Sw…
Sara Smith February 13, 2026Runólfur Pálsson, CEO of Landspítali National University Hospital, says new nursing and day-care spaces will not be su…
Sara Smith February 13, 2026The Director of Public Prosecutions is seeking convictions against Sindri Snær Birgisson and Ísidór Nathansson for att…
Sara Smith February 13, 2026The Ministry for Foreign Affairs is aware of several Icelandic citizens currently in Cuba, and the ministry’s consular…
Sara Smith February 12, 2026“We made the decision yesterday to try to protect the infrastructure, primarily the viewing platform,” says Íris Guðna…
Sara Smith February 12, 2026It has been 1,239 days since the Office of the National Commissioner of the Icelandic Police announced that several me…
Sara Smith February 11, 2026“It was absolutely packed. I don’t think as many people have ever attended an ice hockey game in Iceland.”
Sara Smith February 11, 2026Nearly one thousand comments have been submitted on the draft of a new aquaculture bill proposed by Minister of Fisher…
Sara Smith February 11, 2026A criminal organization responsible for smuggling cocaine from South America to Europe has been dismantled following a…
Sara Smith February 11, 2026Arna Lára Jónsdóttir, deputy chair of the Social Democratic Alliance’s parliamentary group, says there is no point in …
Sara Smith February 10, 2026More than 300 earthquakes have been recorded in the seismic swarm that began near Eldey yesterday.
Sara Smith February 09, 2026There is rarely a dull moment in the home of Ingibjörg Lára Þorskfjörð Sveinsdóttir in Mosfellsdalur. Daily life there…
Sara Smith February 08, 2026Iceland does not plan to establish an embassy in Turkey in the coming years.
Sara Smith February 08, 2026