€3 million car park shut on Costa del Sol after just one year over ‘safety and instability’ concerns
Continual flooding in the Burriana underground car park forced town hall officials to shut it
Stricter punishment in place for horse hobblers in Andalucia
Horse hobblers nobbled
Supermarkets unite to stop Spain’s strawberry fields sucking Doñana wetland dry
Spain’s strawberry industry generates around €400m a year
Chased by men with machetes in Mexico, mugged in Peru and arrested in Iran for taking a selfie, Spaniard completes three-year walk around world
Quitting his job as a lifeguard, Malagueno Dean totted up 33,000 kms documenting climate change as he went
USA will not negotiate Palomares clean-up until Spain has government
Clean-up on hold
FEATURE: After the Algarrobico, the fight to protect Spain’s wild spaces wages on
The Supreme Court ruling over the Algarrobico was a great victory for environmentalists, but the fight to preserve Spain’s wild spaces goes on. Rob Horgan
Nerja draws up plans for first underwater museum
What lies beneath...
Sad Spain ranks below Saudi Arabia and Qatar in World Happiness Report 2016
Denmark emerged as the happiest country in the world
Spanish fishing family arrested for poaching Patagonian toothfish in Antarctic waters
Vidal family put behind bars for poaching Patagonian toothfish
Estepona Town Hall pledges to clean up disease-riddled rivers
Estepona Town Hall has pledged to eliminate waste water from beaches and rivers
Carbon emissions increase faster in Spain than anywhere else in Europe
CO2 emissions rose by 4% last year in Spain with a 23% increase in the use of electricity
No victors in the Algarrobico ruling in Almeria
There are no victors in Almeria’s infamous battle of the Algarrobico … except, perhaps, the local rabbits, writes Lenox Napier, who lives in nearby Mojacar
100 abandoned donkeys saved from slaughterhouse by Spanish sanctuary
EXCLUSIVE: Donkey sanctuary rescues record 100 animals in largest ever operation
Algeciras Town Hall face tough questions about ‘sewage waste’ on beach
While the town hall insists the runoff water at El Rinconcillo is ‘just rainwater’, Algeciras Sà Se Puede claims it is sewage discharge
Spanish government and Andalucian Junta will unite to demolish hotel el Algarrobico
Cost of razing luxury complex and restoring Almeria site put at €7.18 million
ANIMAL RIGHTS FOCUS: PACMA president analyses issues in Spain
Inadequate penalties have allowed abusers to get off virtually scot-free in Spain but change is in the air, writes PACMA President Silvia Barquero
Battling for the burro: A visit to Malaga donkey sanctuary Refugio del Burrito
The Refugio del Burrito is still fighting for justice for the donkey killed in a Bethlehem display in 2014, Tom Powell went to see where
Rescue dog sniffs around Spain on round-the-world trip
Caring canine takes well-earned Andalucian break
Brave British expats rescue starving dogs from Costa del Sol squalor
EXCLUSIVE: British expats liberate starving pups and their mother from outdoor hellhole
The tangled history and legal battles behind El Algarrobico – Spain’s most notorious hotel
Decade-long struggle between Greenpeace, the Spanish government, the Junta and developers
Algarrobico hotel is illegally built on protected land, rules Spain’s Supreme Court
Decade-long battle saw Greenpeace and Junta protest against Cabo de Gato complex
British expats save wild cats from poisoning in Malaga
Mayor Rafael Torrubia has granted sanctuary to the cats
ANIMAL RIGHTS FOCUS: Is the tide finally turning on Spain’s attitude towards animals?
Animal welfare in Spain is often dubbed appalling, but charities, shelters and changing traditions suggest the campaign for change is gathering momentum. Tom Powell asks,
Catalan campaigners demand Spain rows back in Ebro River fight
Protestors march over government's transfer of water to other parts of Spain
Extreme weather causing one death over weekend leaves Malaga on yellow alert
Tragically, one toddler died and several adults were injured