“There is a continuing development and we are in the process of assuming that it can start erupting at any time,” says Benedikt Gunn­ar Ófeigs­son, the director of deformation measurements at the Icelandic Met Office, to mbl.is.

Musician Laufey Lín Jónsdóttir has been nominated for the MTV VMA awards ceremony in New York City on September 11th.

All four passengers of the two cars that collided yesterday at Gígjukvísl River were foreigners.

"There is nothing to suggest otherwise," says Sveinn Kristján Rúnarsson, senior police officer at the police in Suðurland, in a conversation with Morgunblaðinn's reporter, when asked if it is possible to categorically say that the request of tourists in Mt Kerlingarfjöll for help was a false message.

Four people are injured after two cars collided near Gígjukvísl River on Skeiðarársandur in the third hour today. The Coast Guard helicopter is on its way to the scene.

The real estate company Þórkatla intends to offer former owners of housing in Grindavík both lease agreements and so-called loyalty agreements, but their prerequisite is that it is considered safe to stay in Grindavík.

According to the organizer, yesterday's Pride parade from Hallgrímskirkja to Hjómskálagarður Park was a huge success. The police are saying the same thing.

Logi Guðmundsson sits in the reception area of ​​the physiotherapist's office and politely answers the phone when the clients call. At first glance, he seems like a normal teenager, tall and thin, doing his summer job.

The Eastern region is very dear to Ragnhildur Aðalsteinsdóttir. She grew up in Vaðbrekka in Hrafnkelsdalur Valley, then lived in Fellabær during high school, before moving to Reykjavík in her twenties. She says she is quite good at visiting her childhood memories, and most of her family still lives in the East. She rejoices with those who have yet to experience coming to Stórurð hiking trails for the first time.

At the same time that a volcanic eruption is expected in the vicinity of Grindavík at any moment, the Grindavík Committee has submitted an action plan for construction worth 470 million ISK. Of this, Grindavíkurbær will pay 30 million, while the state will pay 440 million.

Tens of thousands gathered last weekend in Gimli, Canada to celebrate the annual Icelanders' Day, which has long been an important event for Icelanders in the West.

Mild weather is expected in the country this weekend, but it will be partly cloudy and wet from time to time. It is rather overcast and cool in the north of the country today, but it will lighten up and warm up tomorrow.

The landslide that took down material from the southeast side of Skíðaskálinn in Hveradalir in mid-July has probably broken the top layer of the soil above a steaming hot spring.

The number of daily earthquakes at the Sundhnúkagígar crater row continues to rise. According to the Icelandic Met Office's model calculations, enough pressure has developed in the volcanic system to potentially trigger a magma flow or eruption in the coming days.

"It went very well. It has been a dream for a long time to open a museum cafe like this at the Síldarminjasafn, Herring museum, and then be able to primarily offer herring, which is in short supply in many parts of Iceland," says Anita Elefsen, director of the Síldarminjasafn, Herring museum, in Siglufjörður. The museum opened a new cafe on Saturday.

Berjaya Food International (BFI) has secured the operating rights to open and operate a Starbucks coffee shop in Iceland.

It is suspected that a fake call triggered an extensive search at Kerlingarfjöll on Monday and yesterday.

The police in Southern Iceland have postponed the search for tourists who have been searched for in Kerlingarfjöll since last night.

Pride was launched earlier today and the street in front of the Pride social center was painted in the colors of the inclusive progress flag, a flag that combines the rainbow flag, the trans flag, and the intersex flag among others, says Hrefna Þórarinsdóttir, the director of the Pride social center.

Rescue teams are now screening glacial crevasses in Mt. Kerlingarfjöll, where two tourists are still being sought. Searches in caves in the area have not been successful.

The announcement was made at about 22.30 last night and all rescue teams in South Iceland were called out along with specialized groups from the capital area. Mbl.is reported first.

Kristín Bogadóttir, photographer and guide, recommends taking your vacation slowly and enjoying what the country has to offer. She herself knows nothing better than being in the Westfjords.

"It was relatively in the most calm way possible, so far I don't have any big issues in my hands after this National Festival," says Karl Gauti Hjaltason, police chief in the Westman Islands

"It is the Fjallabyggð Fire brigade that is in charge of this and it is in excellent cooperation with them and they contribute to the festival to hold this foam party," says Þórarinn Hannesson, one of the organizers of the Síldarævintýri, Herring Adventure, on Siglufjörður, where yesterday's program started with a foam party.

There was a buzz and atmosphere in Herjólfsdal yesterday despite the boring weather.

Halla Tómasdóttir took office yesterday as the 7th president of Iceland, and the second female president in Iceland’s history.

The coastal road has been closed on both sides of Djúpavík after the road was closed on the north side in Reykjarfjörður due to a rock slide and fell apart on the south side in Veiðileysa. At least fifty people were trapped in Djúpavík.

Seismic activity on the Reykjanes Peninsula has remained stable for the last few days, with minor seismic activity, and everything seems to be under calm conditions.

Halla Tómasdóttir takes office as President of Iceland today. She will be the second woman to hold the position. The formal program begins today at 15:30. "The setup is the same as in 2016 [when Jóhannesson, the sitting president, first took office]. In 2020, of course, and during Covid, everything was smaller,” says Sigurður Örn Guðleifsson, a lawyer in the Prime Minister's Office who is responsible for organizing the inauguration, in an interview with Morgunblaðið.

Iceland is a favorite of British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay. He has visited the country many times and always speaks beautifully about his experience of the country and the people.

Iceland's President Guðni Jóhannesson received 300 guests at Bessastaðir yesterday. This was his last reception during his tenure, which officially ends at midnight.

There is an increased chance of a magma run and even a volcanic eruption in the coming days. The number of earthquakes in the Sundhnúkagígar crater row is slowly increasing, and experts at the Icelandic Meteorological Office believe that enough pressure has built up in the system to trigger a new event.

Jóhannes Gissurarson, a farmer at Herjólfsstaðir in Álftaver, believes that it is logical to think that some sheep have fallen prey to the glacier outburst flood, which began in Skálm on Saturday.

The sun has shone for 104.5 hours in the capital area so far in the month of July. It is 62 hours of sunshine below average, or a full week of sunshine below average. This is the seventh wettest month of July in the capital area since the beginning of measurements.

Large queues of cars formed at the road closures on the ring road in the southern part of Iceland, but the road was closed in a section yesterday due to a glacial outburst flood.