“Reprehensible and intolerable”
The regional government has launched an investigation after a bulldozer was used during a bullfight at a local fiesta.
Beach bar ban for El Palmar
Long evenings spent lounging on the beach, mojito in hand, while watching the sun go down could be a thing of the past after one
Four lynx “starve to death” in National Park
EU ignored advice before three cubs and one adult die in Doñana National Park
Government reiterates coast battle
Cádiz coast first to benefit from construction crackdown
Is there soon to be no missing lynx?
Something in the air as two of the world's most endangered feline give birth while third is expecting
Jaen boy does good
Ayub Khan Din has just won the most prestigious British theatre award for his comedy Rafta Rafta
Illegal hotel negotiations break down
Government fails to agree multi-million-euro compensation package with developers Azata del Sol
Doñana migratory cycles affected by climate change
Higher temperatures, a gradual increase in both sea levels and salinity and a drying out of the park's famous marshes are some of the effects
Son of Algarrobico in legal probe
A Mojacar hotel slammed as being “worse than Algarrobico” is under investigation by an Almería court
An ideal visit for royal Granada
STOP THE PRESS: During his visit to Granada on February 12, King Juan Carlos I dropped by the offices of newspaper Ideal and milk company
Ikea to open in Granada
Homes in Granada, Spain look set for a furniture revolution after plans were passed for an Ikea store
Dead baby found in rubbish
Street cleaners in Santa Fe, Granada, have found the remains of a new born baby in a waste disposal unit
Rabbits leap to lynx rescue
Five thousand rabbits per year are to be released in one of the few remaining habitats of the endangered Iberian lynx.
Granada unites for DO fight
Bodegas join forces to better ‘vino de la tierra’ category with prized Denominacion de Origen
Sick safari hunters jailed for shooting tigers and lions
Defence claimed tiger was not an endangered species in Spain
UK couple have home demolished in Almeria
Len and Helen Prior stand on the site of their former dream home putting a brave face on the wreckage that regional politics and municipal
Maddie hunt moves to Sevilla
Private detectives are trying to trace a British DJ who fled from Praia da Luz after being accused of grooming an under-age girl for sex.
Granada top of the table for wines
Despite the heavy storms in May that battered La Alpujarra, laying waste to hundreds of hectares of vines, two of that region’s signature bodegas had
What lies beneath
Córdoba’s Medina Azahara holds many more secrets of the first Islamic rule of Spain
Owner of illegal Medina Azahara home acquitted
Judges in Córdoba have acquitted the owner of one of the 240 illegal homes on the protected Medina Azahara site for extending the property even
UNESCO affiliate demands disappearance of illegal urbanisations
A damning report from a UNESCO advisory body has demanded that the 240 illegal houses on the protected Medina Azahara site in Córdoba should “be
The princes’ secret Spanish playground
They killed 740 partridges in one day at the Duke of Westminster’s exclusive hunting reserve
Ski season starts on December 1
HEAVY snowfall on the Sierra Nevada mountain range has resulted in an early start to the ski season. Pistes at Europe’s most southerly ski resort
Oil spillage poisons aquifer
A GRANADA court is investigating how 120,000 tonnes of a vegetable-based contaminant was allowed to enter underground water supplies. Mayor of Atarfe Víctor Sánchez and
Dining with Lorca, Gilbert & George
Painters, musicians and writers pay homage to the Granada poet at his summer retreat
Saved!
Junta stops construction plans for Europe’s largest land-maritime nature reserve