Sara Bjarney Ólafsdóttir and her partner got a very unwelcome guest in their home last night, when a huge rat had come up into their bed, reports Vísir. “My partner just woke me in the night, and told ...

This issue, we reached out to some friends of the Grapevine to ask a simple question: where is Icelandic culture in 2025? Here are some of the responses.

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 ...

A rookie’s guide to driving around Iceland The introduction of the automobile changed Iceland forever: from a near-untraversable wilderness into ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stephen Hurling, a PhD student in seabird conservation at Landbúnaðarháskóli Íslands (the Agricultural University of Iceland), is conducting doctoral research to learn more about the population, ...

Extensive road construction around Hornafjörður, East Iceland, will be completed before the New Year. This will shorten the Ring Road by 12 kilometres, reports RÚV.

It was here, outside Aragata 2 in 101 Reykjavík, that thousands of Icelanders gathered on June 30, 1980 to congratulate Vigdís on becoming the fourth president of the Republic of Iceland. Vigdís waved ...

On the weekend events lineup: Christmas markets of all shapes and sizes, weird music and more.

A Civil Protection Alert Phase has been declared on the Reykjanes peninsula as an ongoing earthquake swarm increases.

The Icelandic króna is at one of its strongest levels in history, making Iceland considerably more expensive than Norway and raising concerns about the competitiveness of the country’s export sectors, ...