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WATCH: Motorway racers nabbed in Spain with police seizing 40 vehicles that raced on the public road in illegal events

SPANISH police have seized 40 vehicles as they cracked down on an illegal road racing ring that used motorways for highly dangerous races. Officers from

27 Apr, 2022 @ 13:45

Canary Islands·Crime & Law·Lead·National News

27 Migrants Including Six Children Die After Overloaded Inflatable Boat Capsizes South Of Gran Canaria In Spain

27 migrants die after overloaded inflatable boat capsizes south of Canary Islands in Spain

AN inflatable boat crammed with sub-Saharan migrants capsized 244 kilometres south of Gran Canaria, with 27 people believed to have drowned. 61 people were packed

26 Apr, 2022 @ 12:27

Canary Islands·Lead

Massive drugs busts sees Spanish police seize three tonnes of cocaine on fishing boat off Canary Islands

POLICE in Spain seized nearly 2.9 tonnes of cocaine in a raid on a fishing boat south of the Canary Islands. The 20-meter-long AKT 1

18 Apr, 2022 @ 10:00

Canary Islands·Crime & Law·Lead

Why Spain’s Canary Island of La Gomera has been ranked among the best destinations for winter sun

THE Canary island of La Gomera has been ranked number seven on The Times’ list of the 15 best destinations for winter sun. The second

17 Apr, 2022 @ 09:15

Canary Islands·Lead·Travel News

Spain's foreign tourist revival continues with bigger spending than in 2019

Spain calculates enormous tourism losses during Covid-19 pandemic

SPAIN lost €155 billion in tourist revenue due to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the National Statistics Institute(INE). Easter tourism seems to be bouncing back

15 Apr, 2022 @ 18:45

Balearic Islands·Benidorm·Canary Islands·Catalunya·Lead·National News

La Actriz Y Cantante Jennifer Lopez Y Su Novio El Actor Ben Affleck Rodando Escenas De La Pelicula Jersey Girl En Las Calles De Nueva York.

FOR SALE: Home where Jennifer Lopez took refuge with Ben Affleck while filming in Spain’s Canary Islands

THE romantic bolthole where Hollywood superstar J Lo hid out with actor heart-throb Ben Affleck in Gran Canaria is up for a sale with a

28 Mar, 2022 @ 16:30

Canary Islands·Celebrity·Lead·Other News·Property

German jailed for life for beating wife and son to death in Tenerife cave in Spain’s Canary Islands

A German man has been sentenced to life in prison for beating his wife and ten-year-old son to death with a rock in a cave

18 Feb, 2022 @ 10:30

Canary Islands·Crime & Law·Lead

Anti-vaxxers thought to be behind bomb threat at school in Spain’s Tenerife

ANTI-vaxxers are thought to be responsible for a bomb threat at a school in Tenerife. The threat was called in at CEIP Isaac de Vega

10 Feb, 2022 @ 18:30

Canary Islands·Coronavirus·Lead·National News·Other News

Seit über Zwei Monaten Aktiv: Der Vulkan Cumbre Vieja Auf La Palma

Funding pledge to encourage tourism on volcano-ravaged La Palma in Spain’s Canary Islands

Spain’s government has announced a 9.5-million-euro plan to boost tourism to La Palma in Spain’s Canary Islands in the hope of rebuilding livelihoods in the

8 Feb, 2022 @ 17:30

Canary Islands·Lead

Fun on hold: Tenerife postpones its famous carnival until summer

TENERIFE has decided to postpone its famous carnivals until June. The festivities, previously scheduled for February, have had to be postponed due to an increase

22 Jan, 2022 @ 15:45

Canary Islands·Lead

WATCH: Police save cat overcome by toxic fumes from volcano in La Palma on Spain’s Canary Islands

OFFICERS on the Canary Island of La Palma came to the rescue of a cat named Felix after he was overcome by toxic fumes released

20 Jan, 2022 @ 18:30

Canary Islands·Lead

Chewing gum that kills COVID to go on sale in Spain from February

SURELY there must be something good to come out the COVID-19 pandemic. A worldwide realisation that all of us – governments, anti-vaxxers and Bill Gates

15 Jan, 2022 @ 11:15

Canary Islands·Coronavirus·Health·Lead·National News

Tourism injected €187 BILLION into Spain’s economy last year, new figures show

Foreign tourist numbers in Spain recover by 70% before arrival of Omicron COVID variant

FOREIGN tourist levels in Spain last November recovered to 70% of what they were in the same month 2019 ahead of the coronavirus pandemic. Figures

4 Jan, 2022 @ 14:20

Canary Islands·Catalunya·Lead·National News·Travel News

Covid cancelled Christmas: One reader’s experience of a rather different celebration in Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands

Faced with spending Christmas alone in a cold flat in Madrid after Covid scuppered a return to see family in Scotland, Sarah Crozier made the

28 Dec, 2021 @ 14:15

Canary Islands·Lead·Olive Press Travel·Opinion

OFFICIAL: Eruption of volcano on La Palma in Spain’s Canary Islands declared over

CANARY Island authorities declared that the volcanic eruption of Cumbre Vieja that began on September 19 to be officially over on Christmas Day following 10

26 Dec, 2021 @ 11:54

Canary Islands·Lead

Ryanair cuts flights in and out of Spain this January due to COVID-19

RYANAIR says its temporarily suspending more than 80 routes in and out of Spain during January. The budget carrier blames COVID-19 travel restrictions as well

24 Dec, 2021 @ 20:00

Alicante·Balearic Islands·Canary Islands·Castellon·Coronavirus·Costa Blanca·Ibiza·Lead·Malaga·Mallorca·Menorca·Sevilla·Travel News·Valencia·Valencian Community

Activists battle to stop ‘cruelty’ of world’s first octopus farm in Spain’s Canary Islands

WHEN Craig Foster filmed a ball-shaped creature covered with seashells in a South African kelp forest he had no idea the resulting My Octopus Teacher

23 Dec, 2021 @ 09:15

Business & Finance·Canary Islands·Environment·Lead

Costa Blanca people smuggling gang charged €5,000 for dangerous boat journey to Spain

ANALYSIS: How 2021 became the deadliest year on record for migrants crossing from west Africa to Spain’s Canary Islands

A RECORD number of people have died whilst trying to cross from West Africa to the Canary Islands during 2021. Data suggests that the route

16 Dec, 2021 @ 16:15

Canary Islands·Lead·National News

'Drunk' tourist 'bites a Guardia Civil officer' in Spain after being kicked off BA flight back to London

New budget flights will serve holiday hotspots in Spain like the Balearic Islands and Costa Blanca

BRITISH Airways will start operating ‘low-cost’ flights to eight Spanish destinations this spring out of Gatwick airport. BA is relaunching its budget short-haul division which

16 Dec, 2021 @ 12:00

Alicante·Balearic Islands·Canary Islands·Costa Blanca·Lead·Madrid·Sevilla·Travel News·Valencian Community

An end to eruption? Eerie silence as La Palma volcano falls quiet in Spain’s Canary Islands

The volcano that has been spewing lava and emitting toxic gases for close to three months has fallen quiet with scientists expressing cautious hope that

15 Dec, 2021 @ 14:31

Canary Islands·Lead

Spain committing 'harakiri' over UK tourism says national hotel association as mass cancellations force lower prices

Spain committing ‘harakiri’ over UK tourists and new child COVID-19 vaccine rules

A Spanish tourism group says the country is committing ‘harakiri’ by requiring proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 for British children aged 12 and above.

14 Dec, 2021 @ 16:33

Alicante·Balearic Islands·Benidorm·Canary Islands·Costa Blanca·Lead·Malaga·Travel News