Guðrún Hafsteinsdóttir is the new chairwoman of the Independence Party, and the results of the chairmanship election at the party's national conference in Laugardalshöll were just announced.

In the Innovation House at Eiðistorg, Kenyan Grace Achieng has a small office where her fashion company Gracelandic is based. Grace welcomes a journalist who admires the rows of dresses, shirts and jumpsuits hanging there, all made of the finest raw silk or linen. The clothes are all designed by Grace, made in Turkey and Romania.

Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir, Minister of Foreign Affairs, has issued a brief statement following the heated meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office in the White House yesterday, where the latter harshly criticized Zelensky and his Vice President, J.D. Vance. They called Zelensky ungrateful and also accused him of disrespecting the United States during the meeting. Trump then threw him out of the room after the meeting. Gunnarsdóttir says Iceland stands with Ukraine, in the statement published on X.

A man was arrested in Iceland in connection with extensive Europol operations, on suspicion of purchasing access to and distributing child abuse material created with the help of artificial intelligence.

The 45th Independence Party National Conference begins today. The actual meeting will begin with meetings of the issue committees at 10:00 in both Laugardalshöll, where registration of delegates to the National Conference will take place, and in Valhöll.

The Grindavík municipal offices will fully reopen at Víkurbraut 62 in Grindavík on Monday, March 10.

A hall, a more spacious departure hall, six new departure gates, four of which have gangways all the way to the plane, are among the features of the new, nearly 30 billion krónur east wing of Keflavík Airport.

A lightning strike on a residential building has caused damage amounting to millions. One bolt hit the roof, while another struck the ground nearby, lighting up the sky with a massive flash and shaking the earth beneath.

Sigríður Margrét Oddsdóttir, CEO of the Confederation of Icelandic Employers (SA), is concerned about whether there is enough money for the wage increases that the new collective agreement for teachers includes. She also wonders who will pay for them.

The teachers', state, and local government's wage dispute is over. Agreements have been signed.

For the first time in a long time, the Mt Bláfjöll ski area was open today.

After about 500 trees were removed in Öskjuhlíð over the weekend, which have obstructed flights to and from the east/west runway at Reykjavík Airport, a remote meeting was held yesterday between the City of Reykjavík, the Icelandic Transport Authority, Isavia, and ten municipalities.

"The government's projects regarding natural hazards on the Reykjanes Peninsula are far from complete and are expected to take many more years or decades."

Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir says it was a very emotional moment as candles were laid at a memorial to fallen soldiers on Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, this morning. Today there are three year since Russia invaded Ukraine.

“It was an easy decision to put this book together. When the company was approaching its eightieth anniversary, in March 2024, Haukur Alfreðsson from the Loftleiðir Historical Society approached me and suggested that I make a grand photo book about the company’s history, a book that would make sense of this great Loftleiðir Airlines adventure. I thought so and got to work,” says Sigurgeir Orri Sigurgeirsson, recalling what made him decide to document the history of Loftleiðir and publish the book Loftleiðir, which was published last year.

“I think I can say that nothing has changed since this room was opened; I certainly haven’t changed anything since I took over,” says Geirlaug Þorvaldsdóttir, owner of Hotel Holt, about the hotel’s venerable Library.

A group of architects, engineers and artists is demanding immediate action to stop the decline of Icelandic architecture. At the same time, more attention should be paid to the beauty of buildings and other key aspects in the public interest.

Heiða Björg Hilmisdóttir will be the new mayor of Reykjavík. This was announced at a press conference by the leaders of the Social Democratic Party, the Pirate Party, the Socialist Party, the People's Party and the Left Green Party at Reykjavík City Hall today.Heiða Björg Hilmisdóttir will be the new mayor of Reykjavík. This was announced at a press conference by the leaders of the Social Democratic Party, the Pirate Party, the Socialist Party, the People's Party and the Left Green Party at Reykjavík City Hall today.

Updated modeling calculations show that the amount of magma that has accumulated under Svartsengi is now as large as it was before the eruption that began on November 20 last year.

Negotiation committees and local government leaders are now meeting at the Association of Icelandic Local Authorities in connection with the internal proposal of Ástráður Haraldsson, the state mediator in the teachers’ dispute. Teachers have already approved the proposal, but SÍS asked for a delay and it was granted until noon today.

The Icelandic Association of Local Authorities (SÍS) rejected an internal proposal submitted by the state mediator in the teachers' dispute.

Significant progress has been made in reducing landfilling of waste since 2019, especially when it comes to mixed household waste, according to Statistics Iceland data.

“The problem goes back to the economic collapse when road maintenance was drastically cut and has not been recovered. These are 15-16 years where maintenance funds have been ISK 10 billion a year when it should have been ISK 20 billion,” says Sigþór Sigurðsson, CEO of Colas.

Hagavatnsvirkjun ehf. plans to build a 9.9 MW hydroelectric power plant at Hagavatn Lake, south of Langjökull glacier in Bláskógabyggð. The preliminary design of the power plant, which has been named Hagavatnsvirkjun, is being worked on, and the company has now submitted an environmental impact assessment report for the power plant's environmental impact assessment in the planning portal.

On Monday, Icelandic actress Elín Hall looked stunning on the red carpet at the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale).

“I think we will be looking at fateful weeks ahead. Of course, I cannot say anything about how they will turn out, but I am worried about it,” says Þórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörð Gylfadóttir, an MP for the Independence Party, in an interview with mbl.is from the Belgian capital Brussels, where she will attend a three-day meeting with the NATO parliamentary group.

“The government owes the nation an explanation of what is meant by the words “continuation of negotiations” in the new government treaty,” said Björn Bjarnason, a former member of the Althingi and minister, at a symposium on sovereignty issues organized by the Independents Association in Valhöll yesterday.

952 applications from individuals to purchase residential property have now been received by the Þórkatla Real Estate Company. This is stated in an announcement on the Þórkatla website. The deadline for individuals to apply for the sale of residential property in Grindavík expires on March 31.

Schools, city operations, transportation, and housing issues are among the topics that have been discussed in the ongoing majority talks between left-wing parties in Reykjavík. But not the who would be a new mayor.

The situation at the Sundhnúkagígar crater row hasn’t changed much in recent days, according to a natural hazard expert at the Icelandic Meteorological Office, but the likelihood of an eruption is still considered high.

Kristín Birta Ólafsdóttir, chef and member of the Icelandic national culinary team, says that fish is one of the best foods she has, and cod in butter is the best. She plans to give Morgunblaðið readers the recipe for her favorite fish dish these days, which comes in part from a shift manager she used to work with.

Alexander Valur Wium Brynjólfsson and his girlfriend, Kita, who is French, found love two years ago. This morning, they got married on a Play airline plane. However, the couple couldn't decide whether to get married in Iceland or France, so they went somewhere in between.

Iceland needs to strengthen its defense capabilities like other NATO allies, according to the Foreign Minister, Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir.

Construction on the planned land reclamation at Suðurvararbryggja harbor in Þorlákshöfn has been temporarily halted at the request of the Icelandic Surfing Association. The Environmental and Natural Resources Appeals Committee agreed to this, but the ruling states that if the construction were not halted, the association's appeal would be meaningless as the area in question would have already been disturbed.

According to Morgunblaðið's sources, there are rumors that Icelanders' bank accounts in foreign banks are being closed at short notice.