Iceland Review,   06 December 2025 5:54 PM
Iceland Review Playlist | Ólöf Arnalds

Those interested in Icelandic popular music are, of course, familiar with folk songwriter Ólöf Arnalds. The artist’s style, defined by stripped-down arrangements, soft-spoken vocals, and lyrical storytelling, is recognisable and inimitable. Needless to say, over her nearly twenty-year career, the musician has been getting critical acclaim from the international press. Multiple epithets were delivered to characterise […] more

Icelandic National Broadcasting Service (RUV),       05 December 2025 4:10 PM
RÚV English Radio - STEINA: PLAYBACK

The Icelandic artist Steina is internationally known as a pioneer in video and new media art, and is also a major influence on contemporary art in Iceland.

Steina: Playback is the first major retrospective of Steina's work in Iceland, and shows across both the The National Gallery of Iceland and the Reykjavík Art Museum.

Darren spoke to co-curator Markús […] more

Icelandic National Broadcasting Service (RUV),       05 December 2025 3:29 PM
Parents plan to install own traffic lights

Parents in Laugarneshverfi are having traffic light controls designed for them for the junction of Kirkjuteigur and Reykjavegur, which they intend to install at their own expense.

Elías Blöndal Guðjónsson, a father in the neighbourhood, spoke to Rás 2.

Because the city has declared that nothing is going to be done, we are simply going to do it ourselves... This is a symbolic action. We are showing […] more

Icelandic National Broadcasting Service (RUV),       05 December 2025 2:42 PM
Unclear when new shelter can receive women

The managing director of Rótin, which helps vulnerable women, says that although a new and larger shelter was opened in Ármúli this morning, it is not clear when the women will be able to use the facilities.

The Konukot shelter had been scheduled to open in the spring, but that did not happen because of delays in construction work.

Konukot is an emergency shelter for […] more

mbl.is,   05 December 2025 2:30 PM
Crisis team activated: Community in deep grief

“The community in Seyðisfjörður— and indeed across East Iceland — is devastated after the tragedy, the fatal accident that occurred on Fjarðarheiði,” says Reverend ÞorgeirArason, parish priest of the Egilsstaðir parish, in an interview with mbl.is. Local residents are mourning following the death of Jón Ármann Jónsson, an 87-year-old Seyðisfjörður resident, who died in the accident. more

mbl.is,   05 December 2025 1:00 PM
Young and old enjoyed themselves on the slopes

The first opening day of Hlíðarfjall in Akureyri was yesterday, with the lower part of the ski area open from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. more

Icelandic National Broadcasting Service (RUV),       05 December 2025 8:13 AM
Fur farming nearly over in Iceland

All fur farms in the South of Iceland are now ceasing operations as there is no longer an economic basis for the farms. Work is under way to slaughter all breeding animals from the farms.

This is reported in the latest issue of Bændablaðið (the Farmers’ Newspaper).

Only one mink farm will therefore remain in the country, Dalsbúið in Helgadalur in Mosfellssveit.

In […] more

Icelandic National Broadcasting Service (RUV),       05 December 2025 7:43 AM
Hot water hunt underway at Vík í Mýrdal

An agreement has been made on geothermal-water exploration in the vicinity of Vík í Mýrdal to investigate the possibility of establishing a geothermal heating utility to provide heating for the built-up area in Vík in the longer term.

This is stated in a press release from Mýrdalshreppur municipality, and Rarik, the energy company.

Einar Freyr Elínarson, municipal manager of Mýrdalshreppur, is quoted in […] more