New information has been made public regarding the murders at The Edition hotel in Reykjavík in June 2025. Yesterday, the woman arrested at the scene was charged with the manslaughter of her daughter, ...

Grindavík and Hveragerði, two towns in southwest Iceland, are located in areas classified at the highest hazard level in a new risk assessment by the Icelandic Met Office, reports Vísir. The data ...

Iceland Innovation Week runs from 27 to 30 April, and, if opening day is any indication, the organisers are not messing around. The event has been going for a few years now. Its premise is simple ...

None of this was supposed to happen. GusGus was just supposed to be a short film, not a band. And even when it became a band, and remained a band, it—in some ways—still felt like more than a band.

“I worry about the public’s declining trust in politics in general. That was my sense when I first went into politics. One of the first things I did was to travel the country on my own, meet people at ...

Era-defining experimental group múm release their first LP in 12 years It’s been 25 years since múm released their debut album Yesterday was dramatic, today is ok. Ushering in a new era of independent ...

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 ...

The Borealis Data Center is a nondescript building next to a horse farm on the outskirts of Blönduós, a town of 800 inhabitants in the north of Iceland. Entering the building, after you make it past ...

You’ve probably heard Iceland referred to as a hot destination for so-called “dirty weekends.” Icelandair certainly did its part in spreading that message in the early noughties, luring visitors with ...

Six decades ago this year, Halldór Laxness was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his vivid epic power which has renewed the great narrative art of Iceland.” Having just read ‘Independent ...

“I went to a photography school one day a week, but it was just hopeless. They put you off photography, if anything,” says one of today’s most influential music and portrait photographers, sitting ...

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 ...