Five Colombian nationals have been charged in cocaine smuggling cases, and police will seek to keep them in pre-trial detention, mbl.is reports. Their current detention orders expire today. Suðurnes police confirmed in a written response to mbl.is that the investigations are complete and charges …

A custody dispute following Ragnar Dixen’s divorce took 578 days to resolve, leaving his young children’s living arrangements uncertain as the case moved through Denmark’s family law system, DR reports. Dixen said he went 48 days without seeing his children, who were one and three at the time. Th…

Perhehoitoliitto plans to dismiss all its permanent employees as it prepares for cuts to STEA state grants for social and health organisations, Yle reports. The board decided on the dismissals at its September meeting. They are due to take place between October and December, but the organisation’…

Denmark’s Eastern High Court has upheld the acquittal of the Capital Region in a case over vegan meals at Hvidovre Hospital, DR reports. The case was brought by the Danish Vegetarian Association on behalf of a woman who was admitted to the hospital twice in 2020 in connection with her pregnancy a…

Helsinki’s comprehensive schools continue to face textbook shortages, with some pupils sharing books or working from copied exercises. Yle reports that the city has spent only 600,000 euros of the 1.5 million euros in extra funding allocated for printed learning materials this year. Schools have …

An opinion article published by Morgunblaðið argues that Iceland needs to rethink how its welfare system is managed, as public spending on benefits has risen sharply. It attributes some of the pressure to a substantial increase in the number of residents of foreign origin. The article says the 20…

The Faroe Islands expect to hold fisheries talks with Russia in December, despite worsening relations between Russia and the West, KVF reported. The negotiations are expected to take place online, as they have in recent years. Foreign Affairs and Fisheries Minister Bárður á Steig Nielsen said the…

A 36-year-old woman was taken to hospital for a check after her car hit a moose on the Helsingør Motorway in North Zealand on Monday morning, DR reports. The moose was found dead about 100 metres from the car. The collision happened at around 6am in the northbound lanes towards Nivå, between Kokk…

A study of more than 2,600 women found that those who had entered menopause earlier than usual reported more anxiety and depression symptoms than women of the same age who had not. Yle reported the findings from research conducted at the University of Oulu. The researchers said the results underl…

The municipal executive committee of Fjarðabyggð has approved a limit of 2.5% on increases to general fee schedules in the municipality’s A-part operations in 2027, mbl.is reports. The committee also called on the central government and its institutions to similarly limit increases in fees and ch…

Blue whiting can no longer be used in aquaculture feed after the fishery lost its sustainability certification, KVF reports. Coastal states have failed to agree on fishing quotas and are not following advice from the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES). The loss of certifi…

Rice pies are becoming a popular snack in Finland, with bakeries producing hundreds of millions a year as eating habits shift towards more frequent snacking, Yle reports. More shoppers are picking up the pies from supermarket snack counters. They are an inexpensive warm snack, generally costing a…

The accrued pension liability of the B division of LSR rose by 64.1 billion kronur last year, reaching 1,236 billion kronur at the end of 2025, according to an opinion article published by Morgunblaðið. The article says the increase poses a challenge for state finances in the coming years. At the…

Hackers attacked fish farming company Bakkafrost for eight hours last Thursday, and gained access to some user information, the company’s chief executive, Regin Jacobsen, told KVF. Bakkafrost’s IT department and security systems detected the attack and quickly took action. The company is working …

AtNorth will build a data centre in Salo in an investment the company estimates at about two billion euros, Yle reports. The company says the figure excludes customer-owned servers and their installation, which customers could invest up to a further 10 billion euros in. The FIN05 data centre will…

Artificial intelligence could eventually pose a threat to humanity if it is not handled properly, cybersecurity expert Marcus Murray told SVT. He said warnings from AI leaders should be taken seriously and used to guide preventive action. Geoffrey Irving, who has worked at companies including Ope…

Experienced class teacher Lív Reinert Nielsen says a paper register works better than the complex digital systems teachers are being required to use. She made the comments in a Facebook post and on KVF’s morning programme for International Teachers’ Day. “This is the fourth digital system we have…

Morgunblaðið reports that Reykjavik’s Environment and Planning Council is considering a major overhaul of the Höfðabakki and Bæjarháls junction, where traffic has backed up during rush hour since changes were made a few months ago. The council postponed its decision until its next meeting. Two pr…

Beer excise duty will rise by 50 percent, but breweries producing no more than five million litres a year will receive a 40 percent tax reduction, KVF reports. The Faroese government plans to introduce the change. The Finance Ministry says a similar system operates in the EU, where microbreweries…

A folder containing personal data about former pupils has been found in the yard of a closed school in Lahti, Yle reports. The city considers the incident serious but says the risk of misuse appears low. The folder contains about 20 sheets of paper, including official decisions concerning former …

A new section of Arnarnesvegur will open to traffic at 2 p.m. on Monday, between Rjúpnavegur in Kópavogur and Breiðholtsbraut in Reykjavík, mbl.is reports. Work has recently focused on connecting the new road infrastructure to existing roads. In Kópavogur, a new roundabout is being built to link …

Yle reports that Aittakorven School in Kotka will increase surveillance after groups of young people vandalised school property and left some pupils afraid to come to the grounds alone. Young people have gathered at the school in the evenings and at weekends, damaging walls, mailboxes, bins, a fe…

A man from Kemi has been fined 180 euros for leaving his mother’s body in the kitchen of their shared apartment for nearly a month, Yle reports. The Lapland District Court sentenced the roughly 50-year-old man to 30 day-fines for violating the sanctity of the dead. The court said he had treated t…

Traffic declined in September compared with August in three of the Faroe Islands’ four subsea tunnels, KVF reported. The Eysturoy Tunnel was the exception, with an average of 6,228 vehicles a day travelling between Eysturoy and Streymoy, up from 5,947 in August. Between Strendur and Rókin, the av…

Unauthorized access to names, addresses and CPR numbers belonging to about 8.8 million people is “the largest breach ever” involving Denmark’s CPR register, cybersecurity professor Jens Myrup Pedersen told DR’s P1 Morgen. Pedersen, of Aalborg University, said the combination of CPR numbers and ad…

Finland’s only nicotine pouch factory will shut down in Pietarsaari, with production moving to Sweden, Yle reported. The Swedish-owned company, Strengberg Habit Factory, has made the pouches in the Finnish city for about two years. According to the newspaper Österbottens Tidning, employees have b…

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is expected in Iceland on Monday and will meet government officials in Reykjavík to discuss economic and security cooperation, mbl.is reports, citing AFP and a statement from the US State Department. Rubio accepted an invitation from Icelandic Foreign Minister Þo…

Children’s rights are not always upheld in homeschooling, and oversight should be increased and made consistent across Finland, child ombudsman Elina Pekkarinen and assistant principal Pekka Poikajärvi told Yle. Some cases in Finland and elsewhere have involved homeschooling being used to avoid a…

A public procurement complaints committee has ruled Landsvirkjun liable for damages to contractor Þjótandi ehf. after the company’s bid for road and area maintenance was rejected in favour of a rival that failed to meet equipment requirements, mbl.is reported. The contract covered snow clearing a…

Police were called to a home in the capital after two men put their heads through a window belonging to the homeowner’s daughter, mbl.is reported. The incident happened on Sunday evening or overnight, and the police log did not say how the case ended. The incident was among calls handled by the C…

The Icelandic state’s deficit reflects both the current government’s decisions and unexpected spending under its predecessor, particularly during the Covid pandemic and volcanic activity on Reykjanes, opposition MP Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson told mbl.is. Guðlaugur Þór, a member of the Independence P…

Winds are expected to ease overnight, bringing frost to many parts of the country, mbl.is reports. On Monday, northerly winds of 3 to 8 metres per second and clear skies are forecast in the west. In the northeast, winds of 8 to 13 metres per second will bring rain near sea level and sleet or snow…

Unauthorised parties gained access to names, addresses and CPR numbers belonging to about 8.8 million registered people, the Ministry of Research, Education and Digitalisation said, according to DR. The minister called the incident “deeply serious”.

Toholampi and Lestijärvi are sharing teachers and exploring remote lessons to expand course options and maintain equal access to education, Yle reports. The two Central Ostrobothnia municipalities received 124,000 euros for their joint project. The Ministry of Education and Culture has awarded ab…

Unauthorised parties gained access to names, addresses and CPR numbers belonging to about 8.8 million registered people, the Ministry of Research, Education and Digitalisation said, according to DR. The minister called it “a deeply serious incident.”

Three ships, including the Faroese vessel Hav Frakt, collided overnight on Sunday in Valderhaugfjord near Ålesund, Norway, KVF reported. The vessels were a tanker and two cargo ships. No one was injured, and there was no need to evacuate the ships. One vessel began leaking, and all three were dam…

Most of Copenhagen’s Motorring 3 will be widened from three lanes to four, with noise-reducing asphalt added and the speed limit cut from 110 to 90 km/h, DR reports. The 17-kilometre motorway bypass runs west of Copenhagen from Jægersborg to Brøndby Strand. More than 145,000 vehicles use it each …

Residents who want local newspapers delivered will also have to receive advertisements, DR reports, after FK Distribution takes over distribution of many local papers and adverts on November 1. The distributor says it is too costly to deliver local newspapers on their own. In a letter to househol…

Turku’s Boostii hobby subsidy has led some businesses to establish associations so their customers can use the funding, Yle reports. The city says the annual support is available only for seasonal fees charged by clubs and associations. The scheme gives each school-aged child in Turku 160 to 260 …

Some parents are using artificial intelligence to remove watermarks from digital previews of school photos and print them without paying, Yle reports. The Finnish School Photography Association says it has heard of individual cases in which images were used without permission. Photographers do no…

At least 850 pupils in Sweden had not returned to school a month after the start of term, SVT reports, citing a survey by Sveriges Radio’s Ekot. Ekot received responses from 190 municipalities. More than 90 said they had schools where pupils had not come back after the summer holidays. Several mu…

Long delays in divorce cases can influence where children live, DR reports, as lawyers warn that waiting times may undermine legal certainty and affect court decisions. In Ragnar Dixen’s case, it took 578 days for a final decision on where his children should live. The Family Law Agency, which he…

Yyteri’s famous dunes in Pori are beginning to recover after nearly 14 years of protection, Yle reports. Large events held on the beach in the early 2000s badly damaged the dunes. During beach football competitions, for example, goals were dragged through a high dune. Much of the beach vegetation…

Yle reported, citing Kela, that 3.1 percent of boys aged 6 to 8 started ADHD medication last year, up slightly from 2.9 percent the previous year. In total, 4,160 boys in that age group received ADHD medication last year, representing 5.3 percent of the group. The share starting medication was hi…

A school principal says Finland's home education system can leave children without adequate education, as teachers warn that oversight is too weak. The concerns were reported by Yle's investigative programme MOT. Jari Andersson, principal of Sylvää School in Sastamala, says he would ban home educ…

A petition calling for the chair and executive board of SÁÁ, which provides specialist healthcare services, to resign had received 72 signatures, mbl.is reported. Published on island.is, the petition urges chair Anna Hildur Guðmundsdóttir and the organisation’s executive board to step down. It sa…

Ragnar Þór Ingólfsson, Iceland’s minister of social affairs and housing, has introduced a bill that would limit rent increases, mbl.is reports. The proposal says landlords and tenants must agree on any regular rent increases when they sign a lease. If they do not, regular increases cannot be intr…

The municipality of Rangárþing eystra is cutting its investment plan by 253 million krónur, with several major projects cancelled or postponed, mbl.is reports. A budget amendment approved by the municipal executive council on 1 October reduces planned investment for the year from 665.5 million to…

A breach of trust by a member of the Independence Party led the Social Democratic Alliance to end its governing partnership with the party in Suðurnesjabær, mbl.is reported, citing sources. The municipal council majority in Suðurnesjabær collapsed earlier on Sunday, only a few months after it was…

Center Party leader Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist says her party’s red lines remain in place, while describing a meeting planned with four left-green parties as a step forward, SVT reported. The meeting, scheduled for Friday, is intended to discuss Sweden’s current situation and identify shared start…