Former director of Spanish golf course accused of forgery
Businessman denounced for forging documents so he could claim €300,000
Police free pregnant teen sold by parents for €8,000 to Romanian family in Spain’s Andalucia
POLICE have freed a pregnant teen who was sold by her parents to a Romanian family in Andalucia.
The 16-year-old’s mum and dad flogged her...
Journey to Mars – via Spain
European Space Agency chooses Andalucia to test equipment for Mars mission
Buzzfeed made a ‘how to make Spanish tortilla’ video and Spaniards are furious
The clip soon went viral as Spaniards were just not having it
UK tourists were biggest contributors to the €77 billion spent by holidaymakers in Spain last year
The average tourist spent €1,023, or €138 per day
HEAT WARNING: Temperatures to reach into the 40s from Malaga to Sevilla
THIRTY-two provinces across twelve autonomous regions are on alert today for high temperatures.
The State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) reports that temperatures will reach between 39C...
WATCH: Hollywood style car chase ends in dramatic crash before police circle car with guns pointing at driver in...
THIS is the dramatic moment a high-speed car chase between police and a suspect was captured in Andalucia.
The dashboard cam of another driver records...
Andalucia Day: The best places to celebrate your Andalusian pride
This annual festival celebrates Andalucia's status as an autonomous community
HUNDREDS evacuated across Andalucia as major wildfires blaze through the region
SOME 500 people have been evacuated from Andalucia as firefighters tackle three separate wildfires.
It comes after a major blaze was declared La Granada Riotinto...
Beaches across Spain’s Andalucia and Costa del Sol forced to turn people away after reaching maximum capacity over weekend
AROUND 30 beaches on the Costa del Sol were forced to close over the weekend after reaching maximum capacity.
Was Atlantis in Andalucia?
Latest archaeological breakthrough indicates Andalucia may have once been home to the mythical civilisation
Where will it end?
EXCLUSIVE: Olive Press tracks down "deluded" horse cruelty woman. While Seprona claims horses are fine, local charities fear the worst.
Shield to deploy at Rota naval base
American anti-missile defence to protect against ballistic missiles
Supermarkets unite to stop Spain’s strawberry fields sucking Doñana wetland dry
Spain’s strawberry industry generates around €400m a year
Three hundred illegal wells shut down in Donana in bid to stop landowners draining wetlands
Junta officials swooped on the sites which unscrupulous parties had been using to tap an aquifer on which the Sevilla and Huelva-based national park is dependent
MUST READ: First look at Andalucia recipe book by famed British food writer Fiona Dunlop
"I breathe for Málaga…. for Cádiz, for Alcalá de los Gazules, for what is intimately Andaluz." Federico García Lorca, 1924
Hidden Arabic paintings uncovered
The restoration of the chapel of Santa Barbara has unearthed a find of great value.
Toll too far between Spain and Portugal
The 77 euro fee to cross into the Algarve is tourist suicide
Expats in Spain have fourth-best quality of life in the world
More than 14,000 people took part in the survey
The world’s healthiest pork
Thirsty, acorn-feeding black pigs produce Spain’s most famous gourmet product which is also good for your health, writes Anne Manson
Andalucia budgets for 2017 yet to be approved despite year already beginning
Not one of the eight provincial cities has an approved spending plan
Dreamtime in the Aracena
Aracena counts some of the best quality and most peaceful hotels in southern Spain, reckons Jon Clarke
TO BOLDLY STOW: Six British people arrested with tonne of cocaine on Spanish boat named ‘Bold’
A gang of six UK drugs traffickers have been arrested by Spanish and British police
Iberdrola triples its commitment to renewable energy in Andalucia with €1.5bn investment
By Laurence Crumbie
IBERDROLA´S chairman, Ignacio Sanchez Galan, has announced that the energy company will increase its renewable facilities in Andalucia to 3,000 megawatts over...
Moroccans, Romanians being recruited to fill thousands of fruit-picking positions in Andalucia despite high unemployment rate
ANDALUCIA farms are having to recruit Moroccans and Romanians to fill tens of thousands of positions due to a lack of Spanish applications.
It comes...
BUSTED: €600 million empire which trafficked drugs into the UK and laundered money into Spain’s property market
At least 22 other suspects have been arrested across the continent
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Mission impossible: Drone rescue operation given green light to attempt to save three dogs trapped by lava in La...
A Spanish drone operator received permission on Tuesday to attempt to rescue three emaciated dogs trapped by lava flow near a volcano on the...
