The police have seized a knife in connection with the investigation into the deaths of two French tourists at the Edition Hotel on Saturday, reports RÚV. The investigation is still in its early stages ...

On June 18, one person was transported to a hospital when a car collided into the side of a bus at the intersection between Hverfisgata and Klapparstígur in Reykjavík, RÚV reports. Bus number 2 was ...

On June 18, representatives of the Reykjavík City Council majority agreed to make Austurstræti and Veltusund permanent pedestrian streets, Vísir reports.

It isn’t often that an entirely new cultural medium is born. But over the last few decades, video games have taken over the world. With over three billion active players, games have emerged as both a ...

Two ash heaps and traces of the old Laugavegur road have been uncovered during archaeological monitoring at Hlemmur Square in Reykjavík, reports RÚV. The discovery sheds new light on urban life in the ...

Before we left our stinky turfhouses (some as late as the 1960s), winters were a time of quiet consolation when us farmers and fishermen stayed indoors. Ideally, everyone had worked their asses off ...

The fact that Denmark‘s biggest contemporary art museum is currently hosting a retrospective exhibition of artist Ragnar Kjartansson is simultaneously mind-boggling and almost incredibly banal. On one ...

What is BDSM? Typically considered sexual preferences and practices that include elements of control, submission or pain, it stands for bondage, dominance, sadism and masochism. It’s kink, it’s ...

On November 30, Icelanders will head to the polls 10 months ahead of schedule. The snap election became an inevitability on October 13 when Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson announced he was ...

An old Douglas Dakota aircraft, purchased this March by the landowners of Sólheimasandur from the Icelandic DC-3 Friends Association, was transported last night from Keflavík Airport to rural South ...

If you’re visiting or living in Iceland, you should go on a glacier hike – as long as you still can. Because within the next 20 years Vatnajökull’s outlet glaciers will all have melted. But is this ...

With a shiny new prize, a just-released book and many projects in the works, Rán Flygenring’s creative journey is just getting started “This is not my problem,” says Rán Flygenring, sitting in her ...