This province in eastern Spain has just had its biggest year for building homes since 2007
ALICANTE province has clocked the highest number of new houses built in a year since the property boom of 2007. The number of new properties
Hugely popular craft market in Alicante is being forced to close this year with no new site agreed
TRADERS have demanded with an urgent meeting with Alicante City Council after being told that they will have to stop selling on the city’s Esplanade
Popular city for UK tourists hits important target not seen for over 10 years on Spain’s Costa Blanca
TORREVIEJA’S population has gone into six figures with 100,421 registered residents- a 8.690 rise last year, according to the City Council. Almost half of the
Anti-drugs police chief faces 15 years in prison for being part of massive cocaine gang on Spain’s Costa Blanca
PROSECUTORS want the former head of the Policia Nacional’s anti-drug unit in Alicante jailed for 15 years for his role in the biggest-ever cocaine distribution
Council spends over €4m of public money to solve problem with illegal car park on Spain’s Costa Blanca
AN ALICANTE area council is having to spend €4.3 million after a green area was not created above a new underground car park two decades
General Franco is STILL an honorary son of this town on Spain’s Costa Blanca
SPAIN’S former fascist dictator, General Francisco Franco, still has his name attached to Javea as the municipality’s ‘adopted son’- an honour dished out by the
Cigarette and tobacco prices could soon surge in Spain: Government hopes measure will reduce the number of smokers
THE Spanish health ministry are considering imposing a new levy on cigarettes and tobacco in an attempt to reduce the number of smokers nationwide. The
Popular shopping centre on Spain’s Costa Blanca reports record visitors and announces improvements
A REVAMPED cinema and three new restaurants are some of the improvements promised this year for Elche’s L’Aljub Shopping Centre. Around seven million people visited
Grave robber rummages through skeletons to search for valuable metal items on Spain’s Costa Blanca
A GRAVE robber who plundered an Alicante province cemetery several times has been arrested by the Guardia Civil. The 43-year-old man struck at his local
Warning for dog owners: Killer caterpillars are on the move in these areas along Spain’s Costa Blanca
PROCESSIONARY caterpillars- lethal to dogs if they come into contact with them- have been spotted in parts of Alicante province. Sightings have been reported in
Face masks are no longer mandatory in this region of Spain from tomorrow
COMPULSORY mask wearing in Valencian Community medical centres and hospitals will end after it was imposed regionally on January 5 in a response to rises
Air pollution spikes on Spain’s Costa Blanca due to warmest January on record
A RECORD warm January has worsened air quality rates in Alicante province due to the ever-present anticyclone over Spain resulting in fewer winds. The month
New illegal rave in Spain: 1,000 revellers party for FOUR days on the Costa Blanca – as music is heard more than 20km away
AN ILLEGAL rave was staged in Novelda last weekend with music levels so high that the noise was heard 20 kilometres away. The event started
British expats are arrested for running a marijuana farm inside a house on Spain’s Costa Blanca
TWO British men who ran an indoor marijuana farm in Benissa were arrested after an electricity company found them using an excessive amount of power.
British climber, 80, is seriously injured after falling from a cliff on Spain’s Costa Blanca
AN 80-year-old British climber suffered serious injuries on Sunday after falling 10 metres in Murla. He was airlifted by helicopter to the Denia Park fire
Body of elderly man is found floating in Alicante port: Police are struggling to identify him
AUTHORITIES are trying to identify a man’s body which was found floating on Sunday morning in Alicante port waters. The Guardia Civil were notified of
‘Historic heat’: Temperatures surpass 29C in Spain with January records broken across the country, including in Valencia and Malaga
SPAIN experienced a day of historic heat on Thursday as unseasonably high temperatures saw records broken across the country for the fourth consecutive month. Chelva
Body of missing expat boy, 16, is discovered weeks after he vanished while canoeing in Spain’s Mar Menor lagoon
THE body of 16-year old Ivailo ‘Ivo’ Petrov has been found by the Guardia Civil, 20 days after he disappeared whilst canoeing in Mar Menor.
Illegal cigarette factory making 12,000 ‘branded’ fags per hour is busted on Spain’s Costa Blanca
A ROBBERY alert led to the discovery of an illegal cigarette factory featuring two sophisticated machines inside a Costa Blanca house. The Guardia Civil visited
Spain’s largest ever ecstacy factory is raided after making more than €100m worth of the drug
THE Policia Nacional has dismantled Spain’s biggest-ever ecstasy laboratory and seized 1,900 litres of MDMA with a street value of €105 million. 12 men of
Wanted Irish ‘drug trafficker’ is arrested on Spain’s Costa Blanca after showing police a ‘manipulated’ photo of his ID
AN IRISH fugitive wanted for drug trafficking and the illegal possession of weapons has been arrested on the Costa Blanca after an anonymous tip off.
How much of my salary do I need to put aside for rent or mortgage costs in Spain? Figures reveal HUGE differences between the British expat hotspots
OWNING or renting a property is getting more expensive in Spain- especially in tourist areas popular with British expats. A survey conducted by online portal
Wild boars are terrorising Spain’s Costa Blanca: How a ‘plague of 6,000 pigs’ is destroying land and keeping residents ‘locked in their houses’ at night out of fear
A PLAGUE of wild boars has prompted a group of Alicante province mayors to demand an urgent meeting with the regional Environment Ministry. A meeting
Revealed: Where you will earn the most and the least renting out your holiday home on Spain’s Costa Blanca
IF you are looking for a bargain holiday home rental for the rest of winter on the Costa Blanca, then you should focus on the
Popular Costa Blanca tourist area in Spain is getting its first five-star hotel
CALPE is set to get its first five-star hotel on the site of a half-built hotel in the Los Pinos seafront area. A building licence
Violent gang members who robbed dozens of homes on Spain’s Costa Blanca are finally arrested
A HOME robbery gang has been arrested in two Alicante province towns and charged with 21 burglaries as well as drug trafficking. The Guardia Civil