LIVE BLOG: Arrests made as strikers picket the Alhambra palace – while Andalucia public services remain mostly unaffected

Officers charged at protesters as they tried to stop buses from leaving the local depot shortly after 5am on Wednesday.

WATCH: Red alert as Storm Charles batters the Canary Islands and Costa del Sol while schools shut up and down Cadiz coast

The storm has triggered maximum warnings on La Palma, as well as in parts of Caceres and Avila, bringing torrential rain and hurricane-force winds.

MISSING: Italian artist vanishes in Ibiza as family renew desperate appeal more than a month later

Marcello Roveda, 43, mysteriously vanished shortly after landing on the Balearic island on the night of September 28–29.

Mayor of tiny Costa del Sol village to enter Spain’s Big Brother house in bid to ‘raise awareness’ of depopulation in her town

Katrin Ortega Marquez, who has led Parauta since 2019, has confirmed she will become a contestant on the ninth series of Gran Hermano VIP.

Albanian man shot dead at a Costa Blanca padel club ‘had deep ties to Italian ‘Ndrangheta and Chinese Triads’

AN Albanian man gunned down in broad daylight at a Costa Blanca padel club has been linked to a massive international crime syndicate involving the Italian mafia and

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Spain's King and Queen attend funeral mass in honour of 69 people killed in train disaster

Spain’s King and Queen attend funeral mass in honour of 69 people killed in Toledo train disaster

Vox leader Santiago Abascal on La Revuelta

EXPLAINER: Why far-right Vox leader Santiago Abascal’s appearance on Spain’s most popular chat show has caused uproar ahead of election

Manuel Ferrero Alvarez is accused of planting a bomb that killed police officer Juan Jose Rodriguez and his German shepherd sniffer dog.

Manhunt launched for suspect known as ‘The Russian’ after backpack ‘bomb’ kills police officer and sniffer dog in northern Spain

Out-of-control passenger on ‘psychoactive drugs’ forces Canary Islands flight to make emergency landing in Malaga

Simply the Best (outing this Christmas) as Tina Turner stage show rocks up in Spain

Albanian man, 39, is shot dead at a Costa Blanca padel club before hitman flees on an electric scooter

The aftermath of an explosion in Oveido, Asturias

Police officer and his sniffer dog killed by bomb in Oviedo after responding to the shooting of a 17-year-old girl

Affordable housing takes centre stage at Malaga’s property fair with over 4,300 homes up for sale

The fake Van Gogh painting at the centre of an elaborate art fraud in Spain.

Conman who sold a fake Van Gogh for €750,000 via a ‘cash-strapped marquise in Antequera’ has four-year prison sentence upheld

Election 2026

Spain’s right-wing bloc maintains poll lead as PSOE support edges up ahead of November 29 election

Spanish political leaders in a newspaper collage

Political round-up: Puente’s exit clears the tracks for Spain’s election battle as general strike looms

Spain’s PM Pedro Sanchez revels in Donald Trump’s mid-term election disaster

The Gibraltar border after the post-Brexit treaty with Spain

Gibraltar treaty faces make-or-break month as EU summit, Spanish election and European Parliament vote loom

Transport minister Oscar Puente has resigned over Wednesday's Toledo train disaster.

Spain’s transport minister Oscar Puente resigns over Toledo train disaster that killed 69 people

Travel

This tiny mountain village north of Madrid has been named Europe’s top destination for trail running – here’s what you need to know

Manzanares del Real, north of the Spanish capital, has topped a ranking of 90 destinations across 21 European countries.

The medieval town with one of Spain’s best-preserved Jewish quarters named among National Geographic’s top places to visit in November

Five country homes in Spain that offer the perfect cosy escape this autumn

Ryanair reminds passengers of new 60-minute luggage drop-off rule to help stop them ‘missing their flights’

Hundreds of 19,000-year-old prehistoric engravings discovered in Catalunya cave hiding in plain sight

Property

Malaga house prices soar 66% in five years as foreign buyers pile into increasingly ‘unsustainable’ property market

An abandoned house in a village in Andalucia

Andalucia is suffocating from poverty: Three million people struggle to make their ends meet, new report shows

Woman douses herself in petrol and threatens to burn herself alive at eviction from public housing flat in Malaga

Spain’s rental market loses a fifth of homes in just one month as new Pedro Sanchez housing decrees spook landlords

Spain's ombudsman has called for empty homes to be opened up to renters.

Spain’s ombudsman calls for empty homes to be thrown open to renters

HEALTH

Spanish judge ‘asks UAE to arrest couple’ suspected of ordering execution of Marbella’s infamous BBL surgeon Dr ‘Buttman’

EXCLUSIVE: Forged signatures, unwanted procedures and trainee surgeons: Unravelling the medical practices of ‘Dr Frankenstein’ – aka ‘the Buttman’ – Marbella’s world renowned plastic surgeon

Women who suffer gender-based violence face a higher risk of heart disease, Spanish doctors warn

Over a third of newborn babies in Malaga province have at least one parent born outside Spain

FOOD & DRINK

An Olive farm in Spain with a road leading up a hill to a farmhouse

Spain makes shock intervention in olive oil market to stop price from crashing after bumper harvest

Spain comes top again as rural Basque restaurant is voted Best in the World by prestigious culinary list

Olive oil prices have collapsed after a bumper harvest

Hard-pressed Spanish farmers call for one-fifth of olive oil to be hauled off the market as bumper harvest sends prices tumbling

A perfect Autumn escape: The Wine Route of Jumilla is waiting for you with free wine tasting and festivities

Business & Finance

Should british expats use uk based financial adviser c

Could your UK finances be costing you more tax in Spain? Here is why British expats should review

Spain shakes off NATO ‘problem child’ tag to boost defence spending by 50% in just one year

Costa del Sol tech firm leads EU online fraud charge to tackle tech giants such as Meta, X and Booking.com

Brits lead Spain’s record tourism boom as visitors spend €114 billion in nine months

ANDALUCIA

10 Nov, 2026 @ 12:36

Kinahan cartel ‘lured’ ex-Premier League footballer’s brother to his doom over ‘smuggling operation out of Puerto Banus’

10 Nov, 2026 @ 10:39

Warning for travellers heading to airports across Spain as train drivers’ strike causes chaos in Malaga, Madrid and Barcelona

9 Nov, 2026 @ 13:30

Chaos continues on the Malaga airport commuter line as woman faints on packed train after being stranded without explanation for over an hour

9 Nov, 2026 @ 12:00

Belgian expat, 80, runs red light and ploughs into two women on Torrox-Costa pedestrian crossing

9 Nov, 2026 @ 10:02

Storm Bruna hits Andalucia: Sevilla suffers flooding after overnight deluge while traffic chaos strikes the Costa del Sol A-7

9 Nov, 2026 @ 06:30

Family of British expat ‘beaten to death’ in Mojacar win UK inquest after Spanish judge controversially shelved the case

COSTA BLANCA

10 Nov, 2026 @ 13:39

Supermarkets and Bauhaus move in as Costa Blanca’s biggest new urbanisation takes shape in Torrevieja

10 Nov, 2026 @ 10:10

Luxury catamaran goes up in flames and sinks in Costa Blanca marina after witnesses hear ‘explosion’

9 Nov, 2026 @ 14:00

Swedish expat launches bizarre ‘modern art’ anti-dog poop crusade in Torrevieja by placing frames around discarded excrement

6 Nov, 2026 @ 15:33

Mob boss executed in hospital bed is latest episode of Turkish mafia violence exploding on Spain’s coast, from Barcelona to the Costa del Sol

British tourists set for new landmark Costa Blanca record

4 Nov, 2026 @ 11:38

Over three million British tourists expected to visit Costa Blanca during record 2026

Benidorm towers raided by police who find seven illegal holiday rental flats

3 Nov, 2026 @ 12:57

Benidorm iconic towers raided by police who find seven illegal holiday rental flats

OLIVE PRESS TV

Red alert issued during peak Barcelona rush hour as another powerful storm traps commuters in their cars and floods coastal and inland areas

IN VIDS: Barcelona hit by sudden flash flood chaos as homes are breached and firefighters rescue woman and baby

WATCH: The secret gem just one hour from Madrid in the Spanish heartlands that you should visit because it’s ‘untouched by tourism’

WATCH: War zone in Sevilla as knife fight breaks out in broad daylight

BARCELONA

3 Nov, 2026 @ 15:38

Heading to Barcelona or Madrid? Get 10GB of mobile data for under €5 with this Spain eSIM

1 Nov, 2026 @ 08:01

No-show for Blocus: Barcelona avoids repeat of riots as 700 police identify more than 1,400 young people

30 Oct, 2026 @ 15:15

Barcelona’s Joan Miro museum is loaned 37 works from master Catalan artist from private Japanese collector

30 Oct, 2026 @ 13:00

Catalan police officers face eight years behind bars after ‘pair tortured young man and hurled racist and homophobic abuse’

A bin is thrown into a fire in Barcelona during a Blocus riot

27 Oct, 2026 @ 12:00

What is Blocus, the mysterious TikTok craze sparking French-style riots in Barcelona – with huge demonstrations planned for Halloween?

26 Oct, 2026 @ 13:12

Barcelona adds just 2,400 homes a year as more than a million Catalans hunt for somewhere to live

MADRID

7 Nov, 2026 @ 07:54

EU investigates Spanish rail safety bodies for ‘safety fund fraud’ after Toledo train crash

a RENFE AVE on a viaduct on the Madrid Sevilla line

4 Nov, 2026 @ 12:15

Andalucia to Madrid high-speed line set to reopen with fewer trains after Toledo disaster

The Toledo train disaster and Ryanair and Wizz Air planes

2 Nov, 2026 @ 07:30

Airlines join forces to lay on extra flights between Madrid and Andalucia after Toledo train disaster shuts high-speed line

1 Nov, 2026 @ 12:00

Must-visit: These 5 ‘low-cost’ escapes all within an hour from Madrid – according to a leading Spanish newspaper

1 Nov, 2026 @ 08:38

Tiger of hashish’ caught in Tangier: alleged drug kingpin who lived in luxury in Madrid arrested after fleeing to Morocco

Mourners, wreckage, and street firefighters

31 Oct, 2026 @ 18:40

Political round-up: How riots and the horror Toledo train disaster derailed Spain’s snap election campaign

OTHER NEWS

Spain general strike: Everything you need to know about Wednesday’s walkout as workers nationwide prepare to join the protest

Lead·National News·Politics

10 Nov, 2026 @ 14:00

The Olive Press has put together a guide to what readers can expect from the walkout on November 11, and how it could affect

Spain threatens TikTok shutdown after 1,000 child abuse videos rack up 48million views

International Affairs·Lead·Politics

10 Nov, 2026 @ 10:00

The ministry of youth has called on Spain's public prosecutor to launch a probe into the matter, describing the allegations as 'very serious.'

Horrific ordeal of kidnapped man who was tortured and sexually abused for over a week in Murcia

Crime & Law·Lead·Murcia

10 Nov, 2026 @ 09:32

The Policia Nacional detained the suspects, aged 23 and 20, in Lorca, Murcia after receiving a complaint from the kidnap victim.

What happened to the brother of Republic of Ireland footballer kidnapped from a San Pedro cafe by the Kinahan cartel?

Costa del Sol·Crime & Law·Lead

9 Nov, 2026 @ 19:32

Once in Spain, Hoolahan was said to be earning well from smuggling operations around the port, believed to be Puerto Banus.

Spanish voters are split down the middle on upcoming nationwide strike that threatens to bring the nation to a halt

Lead·Politics

9 Nov, 2026 @ 17:30

A new poll reveals housing is Spain's biggest election concern, with voters divided over the economy, immigration and the fairness of the electoral process