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.

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.

Volodymyr Zelensky's motorcade is now on its way to Thingvellir after the president went down to the center of Reykjavík directly after he arrived in the country. Helicopters fly with the convoy, as well as police blocking the road so that traffic for the convoy is clear.

Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, is coming to Iceland tomorrow.

There are indications that there is a considerable decline in the number of common species of waders and shore birds in the South og Iceland. If the trend of recent years continues, these birds could become extremely rare in the countryside in the coming decades.

Support for the Independence Party has stopped increasing like last week and now stands at only 13.3%. Then the Left-Green Movement does not seem to succeed in rising from the bottom and the party this week is measured at 2.4% support.

A man in his 40s was taken into police custody yesterday due to an investigation into the death of his mother in an apartment building in Breiðholt in Reykjavík on Wednesday night.

Úlfar Lúðvíksson, police chief in Suðurnes, says that the traffic into Grindavík after barrier-free access to the town was opened on Monday was not that much.

A strong northwesterly wind with snow or sleet is forecast in the northern part of the country today. Driving can be bad on mountain roads to the north and visibility can be very low, according to a meteorologist at the Icelandic Meteorological Office.

A foreign tourist in his 80s died after losing consciousness in the Blue Lagoon yesterday evening.

The man who is the face of the police in most of Iceland's serious crime cases is considering changing careers after serving for almost 40 years.

"I thought to myself that now I had finally found a treasure," says Erle Tronstad Sagebakken, a fourteen-year-old girl from Lindesnes in southern Norway, in an interview with the local newspaper Lindesnes Avis.

Úlfar Lúðvíksson, police chief in Suðurnes, says that everything went well yesterday when public access to the town of Grindavík was opened again. According to his information, a few tourists have already entered the town.

The investigation into the death of the ten-year-old Kolfinna Eldey Sigurðardóttir, who was found dead at Krýsuvíkurvegur Road on September 15, is going well.

Unusual and increased hot springs activity have been observed in the hot springs area at Geysir in Haukadalur. It has attracted the attention of experts and locals.

The session of the Nordic Council will be held in Reykjavík from October 27 to 31. Bryndís Haraldsdóttir, president of the Nordic Council, says she does not believe that the upcoming parliamentary elections in this country and the election campaign related to them will affect the work of the parliament.

The number of presidential candidates this spring was quite large, as most people no doubt remember.

Kerlingafjöll Highland Base by the design team of the Blue Lagoon, Basalt Architects and Design Group Italia is nominated as the place of the year at the Design Awards 2024. The award ceremony will take place on November 7 in Gróska.

Reykjavik Energy, the Icelandic climate company Transition Labs and the British high-tech company Space Solar have signed a tripartite memorandum of understanding for cooperation in connection with the activation of solar energy in space and the resale of potential energy generated during the research phase.

Stefán Kristjánsson from Grindavík, who is the director and owner of the fish processing company Einhamar Seafood and a farmer, says it is long past time to open access to the town of Grindavík.

It is assumed that driving into Grindarvíkurbær will be barrier-free and the town will therefore be open to everyone from next October 21. The town is currently in the alert state of uncertainty, which is the lowest level of public safety. This arrangement will be in effect until the danger level can be declared again.

A cabinet meeting will be held today at 4 pm and it will be interesting to see if the Left-Green Movement ministers attend the meeting. They were invited to a meeting but have refused to participate in the temporary acting government.

Birgir Ármannsson, Speaker of Alþingi, met with parliamentary party leaders this morning and there was a "good" consensus on finalizing the budget for the Alþingi elections on November 30.