Twelve-month inflation is currently at 8%. The Consumer Price Index, based on prices in September 2023, is at 599.9 points.

A visitor who came to Iceland to attend a conference held by Samtökin 78, the National Queer Organisation of Iceland, was attacked last night. Samtökin ­78 report this in an entry on Face­book.

The proposal by the Swedish architect agency FOJAB won in a global competition for development of Keldur district in eastern part of Reykjavík. The working proposal builds among other things on the connection to the city line and city line stations and neighborhood common areas.

Sig­urbjörn Ari Sig­ur­björnsson, the head of digital marketing at 66° North Iceland, says it is very important that people are aware of online fraud and are suspicious of all offers that sound too good to be true.

A young man was handcuffed outside the Ministerial residence in Tjarn­ar­gata in Reykjavik, Iceland, this morning during a government meeting.

“This is not good, but what I have achieved in the summer is the experience I have gained in milking goats, so it will be a little easier next summer,” says Halla Sigríður Stein­ólfs­dóttir, a farmer in Ytri-Fagradalur in Skarðsströnd, in an interview with Morgunblaðið.

Around half of the country’s population traveled abroad this summer, but the percentage has not been lower in the previous eight years, except for the years when the Covid pandemic was unfolding in Iceland. This is reflected in Gallup’s new national poll.

The patrol vessel Þór arrived on the third hour to Reykjavik with the French passenger ship Polar­font in tow from Greenland.

Olga Prudnykova is the Icelandic champion in chess, after she won at the Icelandic Women’s Championship yesterday and in doing so she beat the reigning chess queen Lenka Ptácní­kova, who has been the strongest female chess player in Iceland for years.

Last month, eleven adventurous men from Akranes went on a so-called enduro motorcycle trip to the Romanian city of Sibiu. In the group was Sveinbjörn Reyr Hjaltason, who was paralyzed below the chest in a motorcycle accident in the spring of 2020 at the foot of Akrafjall.

The orca or killer whale that was lying stranded at Gilsfjörður on Friday was rescued in a flood at midnight that night. The rescue team Ósk received assistance from rescue teams from Reykjavík with crews, lights and a drone.

On the day the Danes celebrated the end of the German occupation on 5 May 1945, several people were executed, without a judicial order, by members of the Danish Resistance. Among their victims was the Icelandic author Guðmundur Kamban.

Many people used Strætó’s free of charge service this morning, and Jóhannes Svavar Rúnarsson, managing director of Strætó, says that the company’s bus drivers have noticed fewer private cars on the streets.

An orca, or killer whale, was found stranded at Gilsfjörður bridge, south of the Westfjords, yesterday. Rescuers are now working to get it a float.

The National Court has ruled that a Romanian man is to be detained until October 16, but the man has been wanted in his home country since his conviction for thefts he committed in 2015.

“I just think it all goes back to normal once the alert is lifted,” says Aðalheiður Borgþórsdóttir, a resident of Seyðisfjörður and the director of employment and culture at Múlaþing.

“If you have Alzheimer’s, you need services. Not only sometimes but always,” says Ragnheiður Ríkharðsdóttir, chairperson of the Alzheimer’s Association.

Sveinn Andri Sveinsson and Einar Oddur Sigurðsson, the defense lawyers of Sindri Snær Birgisson and Ísidór Nathansson, who are charged in the so-called terrorism case, argued this morning in a long defense on why the prosecution’s charges should be dismissed. Prosecutor Karl Ingi Vilbergsson asked that the claim be rejected.

There will be free bus services in both the capital area and the countryside on Friday for the Car free day 2023.

The seafood festival MATEY will be held for the second time on September 21-23rd, with a bang. It is true that the Westman Islands are already on the world’s culinary map, and the festival has attracted a lot of attention around the world. In recent days, foreign media, foodies, and food aficionados flock to the Westman Islands to participate in the festival.

The roof of a house on Aðalgata in Siglufjörður blew off in a gust of wind last night. Most of the roof blew off, resulting in debris being scattered over a large area, the police in North Iceland announced.

“We assume that the evacuations that have been carried out will continue today,” says Kristján Ólafur Guðnason, the East Iceland police chief, but yesterday it was decided to evacuate houses in Seyðisfjörður due to a precipitation forecast.

The net emissions from each fin whale during its life span is about 1,770 tons of carbon dioxide. The average age of caught fin whales is 26 years, meaning that each animal emits 570 tons of carbon dioxide. From the age of 27 years onwards, annual emissions are estimated to be 1,200 tons, but by hunting fin whales it would prevent the release of such a quantity of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Each fin whale is estimated to emit a corresponding amount of carbon dioxide a year as more than 30 cars, that burn six liters per hundred kilometrs driven annually for 14 thousand miles.

An orange warning will be in effect in the East Fjords tomorrow, if the weather doesn’t change, due to intense rain. The Met Office warns of an increased risk of landslides in the East Fjords and East Iceland.

The police in East Iceland have decided, in agreement with the Icelandic Met Office and the National Police Commissioner, to evacuate some houses in Seyðisfjörður due to precipitation forecasts in East Iceland.

The DIVE.IS staff was delighted last weekend when the company celebrated the remarkable milestone of receiving its ten thousandth and fifth star review on the travel website Tripadvisor, with the highest rating available on Tripadvisor being five stars, the lowest being one.

Berglind Þorsteinsdóttir has always been interested in machines and how they work and always envisioned that she would end up in mechanical engineering at university level. However, she decided to pursue her interest before she was there and enrolled in engineering school at the Technical Institute and started to go out to sea. First, she was on fishing vessels, but now she works as an engineer on the patrol vessel Þór and is not going ashore anytime soon, although she has not ruled out the possibility of further studies at the university.

Tickets for two Laufey concerts sold out in Harpa Concerthall in Reykjavik in March. Ticket sales for the second concert began this morning and sold out in a span of a few minutes, with around 1600 seats available for each concert. Laufey is set to tour Europe in the new year to promote her recently released album, Bewitched.

The Reykjavík City Council is proud to collaborate with Samtökin 78, the queer organization of Iceland, when it comes to queer education as well as with the equality school and other city staff involved in education on equality education, human rights and sexual health.

“What seems to me to be that there is a really remarkable genetic phenomenon happening. This is definitely a mutation in the genes of colour,” commented agricultural scientist Jón Viðar Jónmundsson, who told Morgunblaðið that “two previously unknown sheep’s colours have been discovered here.

The Eskimo agency will be called EY Agency from today. The reason for the name change is that company officials started receiving suggestions two years ago that the word Eskimo would no longer be acceptable to the Inuit community and that the younger generation in Greenland would take it especially hard and even consider it racist.

“What is most important is that we offer to scan these rivers in question and if we find farmed salmon they are taken out,” said Daniel Jakobsson, director of business development at salmon farming company Arctic Fish, in response to questions about the release of farmed salmon from a sea cage in Kvígindisdalur valley in Patreksfjörður, revealed on August 21.

Bjarni Benediktsson, Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, introduced next year’s budget bill yesterday. The bill includes a deficit of 46 billion ISK on the total state budget next year, which corresponds to 1% of GDP.

Workers carrying out renovations at the Ministerial Building on Tjarnargata found fragments of a skull beneath the floorboards of the building's top floor last week.

An emergency meeting was held yesterday at the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries in order to discuss the genetic mixing of farmed salmon with wild Atlantic salmon. Gunnar Örn Petersen, director of the National Federation of Fishing Societies, says he hopes that the Minister of Food, Agrculture and Fisheries will act immediately on the situation.