an ATV rider was taken to hospital after losing control and crashing into a tree near Hafravatn lake, mbl.is reports. The crash happened at around 6 p.m. on Saturday. Hjördís Sigurbjartsdóttir, deputy chief superintendent with the Reykjavík Metropolitan Police, said police received a report durin…

Police from the Capital Region Police brought a suspect in the Kársnes homicide case from Poland on Friday, mbl.is reports. He was subsequently remanded in custody. The man is one of two suspects arrested abroad after a man was killed in Kársnes, Kópavogur, on August 9. He was arrested in Poland …

The Grindavík Ultra trail race, scheduled for next weekend with about 100 registered participants, has been cancelled because of the police chief’s position on unclear ownership of the defensive barriers around the town, rather than civil protection concerns, mbl.is reports. “We had worked in ver…

Police are expected to seek continued detention for an Icelandic man held in connection with a homicide case in Kársnes, mbl.is reports. His detention order is due to expire on Friday. The case concerns a Polish man in his fifties who died at Landspítali hospital from injuries sustained after bei…

Óskar Magnússon, a farmer, Supreme Court attorney and author, has strongly criticised the authorities’ handling of the Bandero crew, saying the Directorate of Immigration “mysteriously” became the main authority in a case that was primarily a criminal matter under police control, mbl.is reported.…

Police have told whaling company Hvalur hf. that it is not a direct party to the investigation involving the boat Bandero, and will therefore not receive the case files, mbl.is reports. Hvalur chief executive Kristján Loftsson told Morgunblaðið that the company had requested copies of police reco…

Angjelin Sterkaj, who was recently granted parole in Iceland and sent to Albania, was handed over to Albanian authorities by the National Police Commissioner’s return and escort division, mbl.is reports. Sterkaj has also been reported to have received a five-year prison sentence in Albania for a …