On the afternoon of Monday, August 18, an earthquake measuring the magnitude of 3.8 was recorded in Brennisteinsfjöll, an active volcano zone approximately 20 kilometres south of the capital area. The ...

Make money fast in true Icelandic fashion Money is a lot of things. Sometimes it’s no object. More often it is. It makes the world go round and it’s also the sinews of war, whatever that means. But ...

Where to go if you urgently need an heirloom tomato, and Bónus has none Coming from a culture where a vegetable market is never more than a few streets away — where summers burst with fresh produce ...

The City of Reykjavík and the owners of Götubiti ehf. have signed an agreement for the operation of Kolaportið for the next five years, reports RÚV. The market’s operation has been uncertain since the ...

It’s not nice to make fun of Nazis. As they walk down Laugavegur two-by-two, ten in all. They are people too. “Iceland’s Shield,” they call themselves. Perhaps “Iceland’s Swords” narrowly lost out.

Effective today at 04:00 GMT, the import tariff on Icelandic goods to the United States rises from 10 percent to 15 percent. This rise to 15 percent was announced on July 31, as opposed to the ...

Katla Yamagata hit the scene with a bang in September last year, when her debut EP Postulín(“Porcelain”) dropped, seemingly out of nowhere. Produced by JóiPé, it’s a 13-minute journey through five ...

The twelfth eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula has ended, the Icelandic Met Office announced yesterday. The eruption lasted for 20 days, and it was the ninth eruption in Sundhnúksgígaröðin (the ...

Fallout following the death of a 9-year-old girl at Reynisfjara onAugust 2 continues. In a meeting yesterday, landowners in Reynisfjara, the Icelandic Tourist Board, the South Iceland Police, ...

A nine-year-old girl from Germany died at Reynisfjara beach on Saturday, August 2, reports RÚV. The girl was swept into the sea, and although the Icelandic Coast Guard helicopter took off 26 minutes ...

Thankfully, some places don’t pull their punches. Himalayan Spice is one such restaurant. The menu contains a variety of traditional Nepalese dishes, all made from scratch on a daily basis. Many are ...

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