burning tyres in Gijon and graffiti on Burger King in Barcelona

LIVE BLOG: Riot police deployed in major cities and businesses targeted as general strike pickets force businesses to close across Spain

Authorities are now striking back against protests with force, as groups of masked youths have been emptying businesses and forcing them to close.

Cadiz residents warned to stay away from coast as Storm Charles bears down with 120km/h winds, tornadoes and six-metre waves

The ES-Alert message from Andalucia's 112 emergency service was sent in both Spanish and English to 30 municipalities on Wednesday afternoon.

Sea life nursery blooms at new artificial reefs in Marbella port that have attracted cuttlefish among new 27 marine species

Six small reef structures have drawn more than twice as many species as the rest of the port, and most of the fish found are juveniles.

Vox leader Santiago Abascal on La Revuelta

VOX leader Santiago Abascal pulls out of all further media appearances ahead of Spanish elections unless he has ‘editorial control’

He claims his appearance on TVE's late-night comedy show La Revuelta was heavily and unfairly edited by production company El Terrat.

A woman in a headscarf shouts a man in Barcelona

WATCH: Keffiyeh-clad protestor gets in kiosk worker’s face on Barcelona’s famous Rambla to force him to close in ‘solidarity with national strike’

A VIDEO of picketers confronting a Barcelona newspaper kiosk vendor who refused to close during Wednesday’s general strike is circulating widely on social media. The 24-hour strike, called

Latest

Spanish families budget around €300 for Christmas dinner – but turn to supermarket own brands to keep it affordable

Huge cocaine stash of 2.6 tonnes hidden in crates of coconuts is seized by Spanish police in Valencia port

WATCH: Huge cocaine stash of 2.6 tonnes hidden in crates of coconuts from Ghana is uncovered in Valencia port

British pensioners in Spain gain spending power as pound holds close to €1.20

Storm Charles causes alert for strong winds in parts of Alicante and Valencia with gusts of up to 100 km/h

Storm Charles causes alert for strong winds in Alicante and Valencia with gusts of up to 100 km/h

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

Who is ‘The Russian’? Hundreds of police hunt elite ex-legionnaire who shot girl, 17, and killed officer and his dog with backpack bomb in northern Spain

IN PICS: Incredible moment ‘tourist couple’ enjoy pint and chicken fingers on a Malaga terrace as strike protestors rage around them

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

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

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

Election 2026

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

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

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

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

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

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 @ 18:15

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

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

10 Nov, 2026 @ 15:45

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

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

COSTA BLANCA

11 Nov, 2026 @ 10:11

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

10 Nov, 2026 @ 16:15

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

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

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

10 Nov, 2026 @ 16:52

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

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

OTHER NEWS

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

Animals·Crime & Law·Lead

10 Nov, 2026 @ 19:12

Manuel Ferrero Alvarez, known as ‘The Russian’, remains at large after an explosive device left inside a backpack detonated in Oviedo, Asturias on Tuesday

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

Crime & Law·Lead·Northern Spain

10 Nov, 2026 @ 16:08

Another bomb disposal officer lost a leg in the blast, and the suspected gunman is still on the run.

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