Last night there were several landslides in the Westfjords and then water flooded the road in Hestfjörður and the road was closed during the night.
It is not recommended that residents of Bolungarvík use water as the drinking water is contaminated by soil due to excessive rain.
A total of 388,790 people lived in Iceland at the end of the third quarter of 2024, 199,340 were men, 189,250 were women and 190 were transgender/other. The number of citizens increased by 1,820 during the quarter.
About twenty manuscripts were moved from Árnagarður to Edda, the House of the Icelandic Language - earlier today.
The parents of children at Laugalækjarskóli School are beginning to feel strongly that the upheaval that follows the teachers' strike at the school is beginning to negatively affect the children's lives in various ways.
The Icelandic Meteorological Office warns of an increased risk of landslides and rockfalls in the western part of the country, but considerable precipitation, in the form of rain, is predicted in the Westfjords, Barðaströnd, Snæfellsnes, and the South today and tomorrow.
Around 6 pm last night, the rescue teams Hérað and Jökull were called out because of tourists who were lost in the vicinity of Kirkjufoss waterfall in Fljótsdalur.
"It's naturally a huge honor to jump with this group. It's like getting the chance to do group gymnastics with Simon Biles and the entire US national team, Nadia Comăneci and ten other world champions between them, and then some amateurs like me."
The pianist Víkingur Heiðar Ólafsson has been nominated for a Grammy award for the first time.
Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir, Minister of Universities, Industry, and Innovation, yesterday presented the Icelandic government's first action plan for artificial intelligence until the year 2026.
About 300 people gathered at a meeting to discuss the plans for the densification of settlements in Grafarvogur and the proposed Sundabraut Road. Residents are not happy with the proposed development.
"It's just anticipation," says Eyþór Arnalds, former leader of the Independence Party and musician, who will perform at the Icelandic music festival Iceland Airwaves tomorrow, Saturday.
The Ministry of Finance and Economy expects that the total income of the Treasury will be about 20.7 billion ISK less next year than was assumed when the budget proposal for the year 2025 was submitted. Total expenditures, however, fall by 3.1 billion from the bill's estimate in a reassessment presented by the ministry to the Alþingi's government budget committee.
Doctors have again approved strike action with a decisive majority, but voting on strike action in November, December, and January ended today at 4 pm.
There will be no travel weather in the Westfjords and the North after noon today, but bad weather is forecast due to strong winds and stormy weather in the Westfjords. Due to the weather, Orange and yellow warnings are in effect across the country today.
The teachers' protest meeting that took place in Háskólbíó this afternoon was packed.
Iceland’s Prime Minister, Bjarni Benediktsson, has congratulated the American presidential candidate Donald Trump on his victory, as everything points to Trump winning the presidential elections that took place in the United States last night.
Parents of children in preschools where teacher strikes are currently ongoing, most of them from the Preschool Drafnarsteinn in Vesturbær but also from Seltjarnarnes’s Preschool, protested the strike action of the Icelandic Teachers' Union in Reykjavík City Hall today. The parents that mbl.is spoke to find it unfair that their children are the only ones on indefinite strike, but there is a strike at four kindergartens in the country as a whole, including one in Reykjavík.
"In these small communities, if something happens, everyone just shows up and lends a hand," says Jónas Þór Viðarsson, a musician who, together with his colleague Arnþór Þórsteinsson, plans to hold a Christmas concert in support of Sigrún Björg Aðalgeirsdóttir, who had, along with her infant son, in a traffic accident in Kelduhverfi in Öxarfjörður last month.
"We have seen this happen before, sometimes before an eruption, so this has happened before," says Steinunn Helgadóttir, a natural hazard expert at the Icelandic Meteorological Office, about the series of small earthquakes that occurred between Mt Sýlingarfell and Mt Stóra-Skógfell late Sunday night and Monday morning.
The on-call shift of Civil Protection and Emergency Management met with the Icelandic Meteorological Agency before the decision was made not to launch the entire system following the suspicion that a magma run had begun at Sundhnúkagígar crater row.
The man who fell into Tungufljót River near Geysir yesterday was Icelandic. He was traveling there with two other men.
A man who fell into Tungufljót River near Geysir today has died. He was in his thirties. The police in Suðurland reported the fatal accident.
The beginning of the lifelong friendship of the hiking group “Fet fyrir fet” (Step by Step) was in the Scout organization (WAGGS). The walking group was founded in 1988, but the friends met much earlier, in childhood. For 35 years, the group has been walking together one Sunday a month, but in addition, there have been longer trips in the summer, both here at home and abroad. A journalist went to the home of the couple Pálína Sigurbergsdóttir and Stefán Kjartansson to hear more about this unique group of friends, and Margrét Elísabet Jónsdóttir, Arnlaugur Guðmundsson, and Halldór S. Magnússon were also there to tell stories.
A group of Icelandic and Nepali female mountaineers climbed the Lobuche (6119 m) peak in the Himalayas in Nepal. The group reached the summit of Lobuche East at 7 Friday morning.
Support for the Independence Party and the Liberal Reform Party increases by more than 3 percentage points, and the Social Democratic Alliance is still the largest party in the country according to Gallup's new national pulse survey.
After the latest update, it is now possible to speak in Icelandic with ChatGPT and receive an answer in Icelandic.
The detention of a man in connection with the death of a woman in her sixties in Breiðholt last week has been extended until November 28 on the basis of public interest.
The Icelandic U17 team won N-Macedonia yesterday.
The Suðurnes police chief strongly advises against people going to the mountains Þorbjörn, Hagafell, or other nearby mountains in the vicinity of the town of Grindavík. He says the open areas in the town's vicinity are vast and have not been inspected separately, and there are open cracks at Nesvegur Road and Hópsnes.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is urging the West to increase defense support for his country and to drop the condition that Western weapons systems may not be used against military forces on Russian territory.
The Icelandic Meteorological Office’s new risk assessment due to the accumulation of magma in Svartsengi reckons with an increased probability of a magma run and there could even be an eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula at the end of November.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked the Icelandic people and wished them peace when he addressed the media with Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson at Thingvellir yesterday.
At six o'clock this morning, rescue teams on the northern side of the West fjords were called out because of a fishing boat that had run aground in Súgandafjörður.
Father and son Ólafur Þór Ólafsson and Júlíus Viggó Ólafsson are both on the candidate list for the upcoming parliamentary elections, but for their respective parties and in their respective constituencies.
