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The Reykjavík Grapevine’s Iceland Roundup brings you the top news with a healthy dash of local views. In this episode, Grapevine publisher Jón Trausti Sigurðarson is joined by Heimildin editor ...

The thing I really loved about believing in Santa Claus was the idea that reindeer would land on our roof. It didn’t matter that our fireplace was non-functional and hidden behind furniture, when my ...

The emergency department at Landspítali is expected to be very busy today due to accidents caused by icy conditions, and delays may occur, reports Vísir. Around 30 people had already sought treatment ...

On Saturday (January 24), make sure to catch the double opening at Listasafn Íslands of Agnieszka Polska’s Innocent Bodies and Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson’s Seas‘ Blue Yonder at 15:00. If ...

The Prime Minister’s Office has had to pay more than one million ISK [approx. 6.839 EUR, 7.948 USD] for repairs to vehicles damaged by guests of a nearby bar, reports RÚV. The venue’s owner says this ...

The Icelandic Road and Coastal Administration (Vegagerðin) plans to install so-called rockfall barriers at Steinafjall, where a fatal accident occurred last year, reports Vísir. As previously reported ...

If you entered a children’s section of a bookshop this holiday season, it probably didn’t take long before you saw a book utilising generative artificial intelligence (AI) for its illustrations.

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“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 ...