Worst Storm of the New Year So Far
The Icelandic Meteorological Office has issued a storm warning for today, Thursday. The whole of Iceland will be affected, but the weather will be par...
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Storm Warning – Better not Travel
There is no travel weather out there today so if you had a trip planned, better cancel or postpone. If you must travel please pay close attention to V...
Winter Lights Festival Opens Tomorrow
The Reykjavík Winter Lights Festival opens this week, celebrating this dark time of year with art installations and events that utilize light in diffe...
Rutabaga farmers by day, artists by night
Musicians Svavar Pétur Eysteinsson and Berglind Häsler promptly left Reykjavík in the rearview mirror in 2014 and moved to the country, they got a far...
GPS Mishap Takes American Tourist on a Wild Adventure
Noel Santillan, an American tourist, ended up on a wild goose chase upon his arrival in Iceland, when he accidentally put in the wrong address for his...
Syrian Refugees to Iceland – A Documentary
Árni Gunnarsson, formerly fronting the Icelandic refugee-committee (Flóttamannaráð), founded in 1995, has followed some of the refugee´s voyage with a...
Icelandic youngsters in prison in Brazil
A young Icelandic couple traveling in Brazil has been imprisoned in Fortaleza in Brazil and now awaits trial. The couple was found carrying cocaine in...
Gender-Neutral Attitude at Icelandic Elementary School
Akurskóli, an elementary school in the Reykjanes peninsula, has taken innovative steps to move away from imposing gender binaries on students by remov...