Tag: Akureyri
Ski group covered in avalanche. Two people injured
A ski group of seven was buried by an avalanche in Brimnesdal in Ólafsfjörður. Two people were taken to hospital in Akureyri, the rest escaped uninjured. The ambulance crew arrived on the scene two hours after receiving the call. After arriving at the scene, it turned out that one of the victims had a broken […]
Niceair temporarily cancels scheduled flights to Düsseldorf
The Akureyan airline Niceair has postponed its plans for a direct flight between Akureyri and Düsseldorf in Germany. Flights were planned to start in May this year, but recently a decision was made to postpone scheduled flights by a year. Þorvaldur Lúðvík Sigurjónsson, CEO of Niceair, confirmed this in an interview with Akureyri.net. Þorvaldur says […]
The Sæfari ferry for refurbishment
The Sæfari ferry to the island of Grímsey is due to be laid aside for six to eight weeks in April and May. It is not known how people and goods will be transported at this time. Akureyri Municipality criticizes the decision and the poor flow of information to residents, but a representative of the […]
The accumulation of magma caused a large earthquake in Bárðarbunga
The 4.9 magnitude Bárðarbunga earthquake on Tuesday morning was felt across Akureyri. Kristín Jónsdóttir, a warning expert at the Icelandic Meteorological Institute, says it was caused by magma buildup, but there are no signs of magma rising. Kristín Jónsdóttir also confirms that there is no indication that it will […] The article Magma accumulation caused […]
A preschooler was poisoned by “gum”, which turned out to be a nicotine bag
A child was hospitalized in Akureyri after trying a nicotine pouch at a kindergarten. He found a can of nicotine and offered his friend “gum”. The children tried the sachet but quickly spat it out. This proved insufficient, as one of them soon felt worse. The kindergarten staff reacted properly and everything ended happily. The […]
Twenty people got stuck on a ski lift
On the Hlíðarfjall ski slopes in Akureyri, the Fjarkan ski lift broke down today, leaving around 20 people stranded. Rescue services and the police were notified of the incident at 1:38 p.m. Rescue teams from the North East were called to the scene by police, who were asked to help get people off the lift. […]
They hope to open the slopes after Christmas
North Icelandic people can go skiing during the holidays, but even the most optimistic people in the south didn’t expect Bláfjöll to open until Christmas. The ski areas in Bláfjöll can be opened between Christmas and New Year’s at the earliest. At the moment, skiers can go to Hlíðarfjall near Akureyri and […] The article […]
Flights between Akureyri and Switzerland
One of Switzerland’s leading airlines, Edelweiss Air, will start scheduled flights from Zurich to Akureyri this summer. Flights to Akureyri will be on Friday evenings, and the return to Zurich will be an overnight flight. Edelweiss has been flying to Keflavík for a long time, and this winter, for the first time, it offered winter […]
Season opening at Hlíðarfjall on December 16
The Hlíðarfjall ski resort in Akureyri will open next Friday, December 16, if all goes according to plan. The ski area will be open from 16:00 to 19:00. “There has been little snow here lately, but it was also freezing, so you could produce snow around the clock for several days, and it looks like […]
They want to fly from Poland to Akureyri
An air connection between Akureyri and Poland would be beneficial for both immigrants, their families and Icelanders who want to travel to Poland. So says the creator of the petition, which was well received. Andrzej says that he often wastes two days traveling to and from Keflavík. The route takes a particularly long time when […]
Akureyri breaks off cooperation with Murmansk as part of twin cities
The Akureyri City Council has decided to end the city twinning with Murmansk in Russia and to withdraw from the Northern Forum association. This is according to the minutes of yesterday’s meeting of the Akureyri city council, in which we read that it decided to end cooperation due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The invasion […]
Landslide on the road to Grenivík
A landslide fell on the road from Svalbardsströnd to Grenivík, which is currently closed. Police in Akureyri received a call about the landslide around 6am. The road is closed from the branch in Víkurskarð towards Grenivík. According to Akureyri police, a car was driven into the landslide this morning, but no one was injured, the […]
The mayor of Akureyri sees no need to charge for the use of studded tires
The Icelandic Environmental Protection Agency (Umhverfisstofnun) wants cities across the country to be able to charge for the use of studded tires. As a result, he says, fewer people will use them and the air quality in cities across Iceland will improve. The mayor of Akureyri is not enthusiastic about this idea. An air quality […]
Construction of a data center at Hlíðarfjall in Akureyri
Construction of the data center at Hlíðarvelli in Akureyri is on track. Work began in mid-July, and the last structural elements of the first building were erected this week. The goal is to start operations by the middle of next year. In January this year, Akureyri City Council awarded atNorth ehf. formal consent to use […]
Icelanders could ease the energy crisis in Europe
Icelanders could produce electricity that would far exceed the energy demand, and could even alleviate the energy crisis in Europe if more wind farms were built in Iceland. A lecturer at the University of Akureyri says that wind power is the obvious first choice for increasing Icelanders’ activity in the electricity sector. There is no […]
Another strong earthquake in the north
The magnitude 4 earthquake occurred last night at a depth of 10 kilometers, about 30 kilometers southeast of Grímsey. The shock was recorded at 2:13 and according to the geologist on duty at the Icelandic Meteorological Office, it was felt in Akureyri. Dozens of aftershocks followed. Yesterday at 10:57 am west of Herðubreið, an earthquake […]
Samherja employee transported by air ambulance from Gdańsk to Akureyri
A man who had an accident over the weekend during Samherji’s annual company trip to Gdańsk was taken to Akureyri by an air ambulance service. According to information from the company, the man suffered a serious fracture. Several hundred Samherja employees with accompanying persons went to Poland last weekend, where the company’s annual celebration took […]
The city is in fashion. People are buying a second home in Akureyri
Akureyri’s house price increases have far outstripped those elsewhere in the country. Out-of-town residents raise the price. Over the year, apartment price increases in multi-family housing have been twice as high in Akureyri as in Reykjavik and more than three times as high as in Selfoss and Reykjanesbær. There has been a large increase in […]
Very few children on the waiting list in Akureyri
In Akureyri, almost all pre-school placement applications that were submitted before the mid-February deadline are being processed, city officials said. Most of the applications that came after that date have also already been processed. There are more families moving to the city than those moving from Akureyri, and this is the main reason why all […]
Culture Round-Up: Disney+ is creeping up on Netflix’s shoulder, but neither can compete with YouTube
The average TV viewer in Denmark streams over an hour of content every day, and the breakdown confirms the enormous popularity of the video sharing platform YouTube among most young people. They spend so much time on the platform that it’s enough to push YouTube, with an average of 20 minutes per person per day, […]
Seat occupancy in Niceair at 86% in July
Seat utilization at Niceair increased significantly in July. In the first month of operation, in June, the seat occupancy was 69 percent, up from 86 percent in July, according to a Niceair press release. Niceair operates scheduled flights from Akureyri to Copenhagen and Tenerife, as well as charter flights during the summer season. Last month […]
Dog fur used as yarn for clothes
Nowadays, not many people choose to spin their own wool, but even less use dog fur for this purpose. A dog breeder in Eyjafjörður uses the fur of his 18 huskies to make yarn, which his wife uses to knit hats and other garments. A family of five who lives on the outskirts of Akureyri […]
Flights from Germany to Akureyri and Egilsstadir
German airline Condor will begin scheduled flights to Akureyri and Egilsstaðir in summer 2023. They will run from May to the end of October each week, both between Frankfurt and Akureyri Airport and between Frankfurt and Egilsstaðir Airport. The announcement states that this is the first connection of the airline with Iceland. “Iceland is one […]
They worked until the night to get everything ready for the little footballers
The four toughest men from the KA team in Akureyri were very busy preparing the last football pitch where the boys will play in the most important tournament of the year in the coming days. The first weekend of July is ahead of us and, as always, all roads lead north – at least for […]
Lupine threatens the nature reserve
Lupins are beautiful, but they are also an invasive species. RÚV reports that the spread of lupines in the Krossanesborgir Nature Reserve near Akureyri could have a very negative impact on native plants and animals. As Egill Bjarnason explained in a 2018 New York Times article on the lupine controversy in Iceland, “lupine in Iceland […]
Hope for patients suffering from Alzheimer’s disease
According to Morgunblaðið, an application has been submitted to investigate a new drug that offers hope in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. The Icelandic physician Hákon Hákonarson, director of the Center for Applied Genomics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in the US and founder of Arctic Therapeutics, a drug discovery and development company, is […]
More nursing students will be able to continue their education
More first-year nursing students at the University of Iceland have passed the competition examinations at the department than initially foreseen. The decision was made by the school authorities after receiving a request from the Ministry of Health and the Landspítali. Akureyri University has yet to decide whether to respond to the authorities’ appeal. This is […]
Akureyri breakthrough – expansion in the north
Yesterday, the first ceremonial groundbreaking for the construction of a new district in Akureyri – Holtahverfi took place. This is a turning point for the city as housing development is now shifting northward following intense expansion in the south of Iceland. The chairman of the city council says that the demand for plots has been […]
The hot waterfall will disappear
A large group of canoeists and standboarders regret that the hot water flowing from the Vaðlaheiðar tunnel and flowing to Pollurinn in Akureyri will soon disappear. The water is to be discharged to the new bathing area behind Akureyri. When a large hot water tank was opened during construction in the Vaðlaheiðar tunnel in 2014, […]
Let us have our say on teaching Icelandic in Iceland
The number of foreigners living in Iceland has doubled in the last 20 years. As knowledge of the Icelandic language is crucial for integration and opportunities to participate in society, it is worth learning about the experiences of immigrants in learning Icelandic. This survey is being conducted by a research group from Háskólinn á Akureyri, […]
Peaceful protest against vaccination against COVID-19
Peaceful protests against coronavirus vaccination took place in Reykjavik and Akureyri today. Hundreds of people took part in the protests. People have protested against isolating people because of what the group calls “a cold or a sore throat.” Protesters questioned the integrity of pharmaceutical companies, the safety of vaccines, and pointed out that forcing vaccines […]
In Akureyri, cars disappear under the snow
As the people of Akureyri got to work yesterday morning, they had trouble finding their cars. They all disappeared under a thick blanket of snow. There were only snow sculptures in the parking spaces. It happened that those who did not remember exactly where they parked their car shoveled their neighbor’s car. For Guðni Þóroddsson, […]
