Big issues
The country's payment system was down for half an hour – the nation experienced, for the first time in decades, nothing being deducted from it
A man in Breiðholt paid his electricity bill fourteen times and now has credit until March 2031.
Landsvirkjun board clarifies: the meetings without the CEO were formally informal
The minutes will be released as soon as the board has held a meeting on whether that meeting was formal.
Blue Lagoon goes public – magma build-up under Svartsengi listed in prospectus as “untapped growth potential”
Investors are promised the company is literally on the rise, by a few millimetres a week.
Young couple bought a flat without help from their parents – Statistics Iceland investigates
Experts say the result is statistically impossible and have run the models three times.
Primary school pupils to get numbers instead of the letters that replaced numbers
The change is said to be based on experience. Specifically, experience of the system that was scrapped a decade ago.
Servers in Iceland now outnumber residents – and get the electricity first
Data centres use enough power for whole regions. A man in Ísafjörður asked the AI whether that was true.
Child gets a preschool place in Reykjavík – by then she was in upper-secondary school
Parents are signing children up before conception. The city says it is on the right track.
State property company unveils plan to draw up a plan for Grindavík residents to buy back their homes
Residents will find out when they can move home as soon as it has been decided when that will be decided.
Magma under Svartsengi at record levels – eruption expected “in the coming days”, as it has been for eight months
Geologists disagree on almost everything, except that they are right.
Man who went to the out-of-hours clinic with a cold recovered in the waiting room
The wait was four hours and twenty minutes. The cold lasted four.
Archaeologists find an older “new hospital” beneath the new hospital
The ruins are believed to date from a previous attempt to build a new hospital. Beneath them they found another.
World oil prices fell 30 percent – the price of petrol rose by two krónur
The oil companies say price cuts take a long time to reach Iceland. Price rises arrive the same day.
Jón paid off his loan for 22 years – now owes twice as much and gets an award from the bank
The bank has welcomed him into a special group of customers who have “grown with their loan”.
Central Bank raises rates to fight inflation caused by rate rises
The monetary policy committee says it is “very close”. Inflation itself doesn't see what the fuss is about.