Police in Iceland’s capital region are investigating whether a fire in a rubbish storage area was deliberately set, after logging 85 incidents between 5pm and 5am. The same overnight report also included a driver caught at 112 km/h in a 50 km/h zone, but the suspected arson case is the one that reaches beyond the routine police blotter.

Core drilling for the proposed Eyjaganga tunnel has finished on Heimaey and the rig has now been moved to Landeyjar on the mainland. The work has cost about ISK 200 million so far, funded by municipalities in Vestmannaeyjar and South Iceland together with private companies, with results due by year-end.

Iceland’s parliament has approved a bill to create a deportation facility for people awaiting removal from the country. Justice Minister Þorbjörg Sigríður Gunnlaugsdóttir said the vote did not bring any sense of victory, describing the measure as a heavy but necessary step to meet Iceland’s obligations.

A former roadside shop is being installed as a museum object at the Commercial Heritage Museum in Hvammstangi, carrying with it a small royal footnote: the business once built a toilet for King Christian X. According to Vísir, the exhibit turns a modest shopfront into a record of how motorists, rural households and passing trade once held together much of Iceland’s local commerce.

Reykjavík police say they stopped a driver allegedly travelling at 175 km/h in an 80 km/h zone and revoked his licence on the spot. The same shift log also records an arrest tied to assault, theft and immigration-law violations, along with two separate traffic crashes.

Reykjavík City Hall has been subjected to serious cyberattacks linked to the city's display of Ukrainian and Palestinian flags, according to Icelandic daily Morgunblaðið. What began as a symbolic foreign-policy gesture has now produced an operational security problem for a municipal administration.

Reykjavík placed 13 children at the Bakkakot foster home between 2002 and 2005 after abuse had been reported there and after the state child-protection agency had stopped recommending the home. Other municipalities had already stopped using Bakkakot, but Reykjavík continued until the local social services authority barred further placements in 2005.

A 14-year-old girl suffered substantial injuries after an older girl allegedly kicked her repeatedly in Hafnarfjörður last weekend. Police in the Reykjavík area say attacks of this kind among minors can have very serious consequences and are being treated with urgency.

Two earthquakes measuring 3.8 and 3.3 struck northwest of Þórisjökull shortly after 11pm on Tuesday, followed by smaller aftershocks. According to the Icelandic Meteorological Office, the recent sequence in the area is most likely crustal stress release rather than a shift in hazard conditions.

Reykjavík has signed a memorandum with the Hjallastefnan private school network and property company Reitir for a new preschool and compulsory school at Öskjuhlíð after four years in temporary premises. The deal pairs a city facing scarce school space with a developer willing to build, while City Hall also signals better contract terms for independent schools.

Police in Iceland’s capital region cited a driver for using studded tires in June, more than six weeks after the legal deadline for removing them. The case appeared in a police blotter otherwise dominated by suspected drunk driving, drug-impaired driving and unlicensed motorists.

More than 2,000 Icelandic state employees and officials received monthly pay above ISK 1.5 million, according to a briefing prepared for Alþingi. Doctors dominate the very top, but the list stretches across hospitals, courts, ministries, police, coast guard and schools.

Iceland has amended its building code to require measurable daylight in apartments after years of dense urban development produced homes experts compare to basement flats lifted several floors above ground. The change reaches beyond window size and forces sunlight to be accounted for at the planning stage, where many recent projects were never designed to pass such a test.

An international study of the Reykjanes eruption sequence says the crust around Grindavík opened by almost four metres between 2021 and 2025, with up to 2.5 metres arriving in a single jolt on the day the town was evacuated. The findings, reported by RÚV, cut into the model that has guided hazard assessments around Grindavík and the Svartsengi power area.

Iceland’s parliament is holding an extra sitting to continue debate on a proposed referendum about resuming talks with the European Union. The move keeps a long-running sovereignty dispute active and forces lawmakers back onto the substance of the accession files themselves.

Iceland’s Met Office has issued yellow weather warnings for the northeast, east, Eastfjords and the central highlands as snow and cold weather move across the country. Conditions are expected to worsen first on mountain roads, with snow reaching sea level in the east and northeast by evening.

Two cars left the road on Reykjanesbraut near Breiðholtsbraut after what witnesses described as a police pursuit, according to Vísir. Two ambulances, a fire engine and a large police presence were sent to one of the main roads serving Reykjavík.

Miðflokkurinn fell from three seats to one in Grindavík’s municipal council, while the Independence Party and Progressive Party each won three. In a town defined by evacuation, damaged housing and prolonged uncertainty, the result points to voters consolidating around parties seen as able to manage recovery.

Suðurnesjabær’s final municipal election result leaves the governing majority in place, with the Social Democrats and independents winning three seats and the Progressive Party two. The Independence Party and Centre Party took two seats each, a seven-seat split that keeps power with the incumbent bloc but underlines how municipal politics outside Reykjavík is breaking into smaller, less stable pieces.

Final results in Húnaþing vestra put the local N-list ahead of Framsókn, flipping the ranking inside one of Iceland’s small municipalities. In a council this small, one seat moving from one list to another changes who can assemble a majority and who has to negotiate from weakness.

Akureyri’s governing majority has lost its numbers after an early vote count showed Bæjarlistinn narrowly ahead of Samfylkingin while still dropping a seat. In Iceland’s largest town outside the capital area, the immediate contest is no longer first place but who can assemble a workable coalition.

Early results in Hafnarfjörður show the governing coalition of the Independence Party and the Progressive Party holding its majority despite polling that had pointed to a loss. The Independence Party is emerging as the largest force in the town, offering an early test of how Icelandic voters are treating incumbents in this municipal campaign.

A new Reykjavík poll puts the Independence Party at 31.3 percent, its strongest position in the city for some time, but still leaves a centre-right bloc with the Centre Party and Progressives short of a majority. The numbers matter beyond party tactics: Reykjavík controls the country’s largest housing market, a large share of municipal taxation, and many of the planning decisions that shape Iceland’s labour market.

Iceland’s transport minister will examine whether European aviation rules were made stricter in Iceland than required, after a dispute over permits at Reykjavik Airport. The case has widened into a fight over how far local health authorities can use licensing rules to constrain a key domestic transport hub.