Harbourmasters across the country report insufficient notice before the introduction of an infrastructure fee on cruise ships, leading to cancellations by many shipping companies after the change took effect. The new legislation is expected to generate 1.5 billion ISK for the state treasury.

The organisation Cruise Iceland has strongly opposed the new infrastructure fee of 2,500 ISK per cruise ship passenger per night, effective from 1 […] more

Brunavarnir Suðurnesja, the fire brigade in Suðurnes, extinguished a fire in a shed last night.

The shed was located in Suðurnesjabær, between Garður and Sandgerði.

The alarm was raised at around 8 pm, and firefighting efforts concluded around midnight.

When the first fire truck arrived at the scene, heavy smoke and flames were visible. The shed was full of flammable materials, […] more

Héraðssaksóknari (The Office of the District Prosecutor) has charged Haukur Ægir Hauksson, who received a five-year prison sentence in the so-called Sólheimajökull case, with attempted murder.

Haukur Ægir is accused of placing a man in a chokehold, restricting his airway for at least seven minutes.

Police managed to release the victim from the chokehold, at which point he was semi-conscious, convulsing, and […] more

Over ten absentee ballots, that could have affected the election results in the southwest constituency, were not sent from the town hall in Kópavogur to the Electoral Commission. In Morgunblaðið this morning, Pálmi Þór Másson, the municipal clerk of Kópavogur, says a postal shipment with the votes had arrived there the day before the parliamentary election on November […] more