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On May 26, a small airplane conducted an emergency landing on Suðurlandsvegur, east of Hólmsheiði. The plane had stopped at Reykjavík airport before its journey to Britain, according to deputy police ...
Ásthildur Lóa Þórsdóttir is returning to Alþingi today, after having been on leave since resigning as Minister of Children and Education on March 23. Her resignation was submitted following reports ...
A Labrador Retriever named Orka has started working as an assistant teacher in Rimaskóli primary school. The dog helps teaching students in third grade, and doubles as a therapist, its owner and ...
Last night, the police in the capital area received a report about a woman assaulting a pizza delivery driver in Reykjavík, reports Vísir. According to the police, the woman had stolen the delivery ...
Iceland’s Minister of Education and Children’s Affairs, Ásthildur Lóa Þórsdóttir, resigned earlier this year amidst a scandal that made headlines here in Iceland and notably around the entire world.
Our new issue is hot off the press, and we might have celebrated a little too hard last night. Not naming names, but some of us can barely talk — so we’re snoozing until Monday. With the last bit of ...
Icelandic companies are being required to comply with U.S. laws that prohibit implementing policies promoting diversity, equity, or inclusion (DEI), reports RÚV. However, Icelandic law mandates that ...
In late March, customs officers at Keflavík Airport confiscated around 20.000 nonprescription tablets. At first glance, they seemed to be Oxycontin pills, valued at 115 million ISK, RÚV reports. The ...
NASA has removed two comic books about women astronauts from all of its websites. The removal seems to be part of a wider effort by the Trump administration to purge what it deems “DEI” (Diversity, ...
The landowners of Sólheimasandur, home to Iceland’s most famous plane wreck, have purchased an old Douglas Dakota DC-3/C-47 plane from the DC-3 Friends Association, reports Vísir. The idea is for the ...
When this magazine finds its way into the shops, cafés and cultural institutions of Reykjavík, it will have been a mere 46 days since the inauguration of President of the United States of America ...
The fuel tax will be abolished and replaced with a kilometre-based road tax, reports RÚV. The Minister of Finance calls this an important and unavoidable change. A bill introducing a kilometre tax for ...