Vidar Olason has been appointed the position of Director of Surveillance Division, which was advertised recently, while Elin Bjorg, the outgoing Director of the Surveillance Division, has taken over the job of Director general of the Directorate of Fisheries.

Arnór Snorrason, an expert at Land and Forest Iceland, is among the authors of an article published recently in the prestigious scientific journal Nature. The article describes the work that is currently underway to establish a joint monitoring system for Europe’s forests. Data on the biomass reserves of the European forests and the growth of the biomass there are published. Iceland is now for the first time included on a map showing such information. It can thus be said that the Icelandic forests have finally been "put on the map" in this regard.

New and improved version of digital criminal record are now available

Last week, the first digital indictment was issued for traffic violations and in the following weeks, the first summon was sent through the Digital Mailbox.

Coastal fishing season starts on Thursday, May 2nd.

Iceland Health was present at the conference Tengjum ríkið, which was held on 27 September 2024. At the conference, various digital service solutions introduced recently by Iceland Health were presented.

All children welcome on Ash Wednesday.

The appointment of Jón Torfi Halldórsson as chief physician at the HSN Akureyri has been finalised.

Recently, there have been reports of infections with monkeypox virus in several countries in Europe, e.g. the United Kingdom, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Belgium and Sweden, but the disease has also been detected in the United States and Canada.

Hildur Ösp Gylfadóttir has been hired as human resource manager at HSN.