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Gibraltar claims that sales are rocketing since border opening – but small business owners disagree

SALES are rocketing since the frontier opened up, according to the Gibraltar government – but two-thirds of small businesses reported no change in euro takings

7 Aug, 2026 @ 16:56

Business & Finance·Gibraltar·Lead

Clouds threaten Costa del Sol view of Spain’s once-in-a-century solar eclipse, forecasts warn

STARGAZERS along the Costa del Sol could miss Spain’s first total solar eclipse in more than a century as cloudy skies threaten to obscure the

7 Aug, 2026 @ 16:05

Andalucia·Costa del Sol·Environment·Lead·Weather

Benidorm’s new €50m promenade design will be decided by an international competition

PLANS for Benidorm’s new €50 million promenade linking the Poniente and Levante bays have taken a big step forward with the announcement of an international

7 Aug, 2026 @ 14:14

Benidorm·Costa Blanca·Lead

American fugitive on the run for 43 years over Chicago murder is arrested in Spain

AN AMERICAN man wanted over the 1983 murder of his Chicago roommate, has been arrested in Spain. The Policia Nacional executed an International Arrest Warrant

7 Aug, 2026 @ 13:09

Crime & Law·Lead·Murcia

PP opens door to Ceuta migrant minors arriving in Andalucia as coalition partner Vox blasts new arrivals as ‘invaders’

ANDALUCIA’s ruling party has opened the door to accepting migrant minors into the region after 72,000 people crossed into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta from

7 Aug, 2026 @ 12:52

Human trafficking cartel brought down after charging €12,000 per person to smuggle 2,000 migrants into Spain

WATCH: Human trafficking cartel brought down after charging €12,000 per person to smuggle 2,000 migrants from North Africa into Spain

A SPANISH-led probe in association with Europol has dismantled a large criminal gang that trafficked people in addition to smuggling cannabis, synthetic drugs, and weapons.

7 Aug, 2026 @ 12:22

Crime & Law·Lead

Inside yet another global narco trafficking group: How Albanians in Dubai invested in companies in Spain to import cocaine from Ecuador through ports in Malaga and Valencia

SPANISH police takedowns of international drug trafficking organisations are so frequent that it's a wonder there are any more to dismantle.

7 Aug, 2026 @ 12:05

Crime & Law·International Affairs·Lead·Malaga·Valencia

Estepona family offers €50,000 reward to catch burglars terrorising their home

A FAMILY whose Costa del Sol home is being terrorised by burglars has offered a staggering €50,000 reward for information that helps catch the thieves.

7 Aug, 2026 @ 10:09

Crime & Law·Estepona·Lead

Spain records second lowest traffic deaths in July since records began

Spain's roads see second-lowest July death toll on record — but motorcyclists and cyclists still paying the price

7 Aug, 2026 @ 09:32

Lead·National News·Travel News

Boars roaming Costa del Sol beaches and bins are riddled with diseases ‘that can be passed on to humans’, study warns

Almost 80% of infected Malaga wild boars carried two or more diseases at once, including hepatitis E, Brucella and E. coli.

7 Aug, 2026 @ 09:05

Health·Lead·Malaga

Spain on brink of 50-million population milestone – with one in five residents now born abroad

SPAIN is close to reaching the 50-million population milestone for the first time, new data shows – with more than one in five residents now

6 Aug, 2026 @ 16:55

Lead·National News

Hundreds of beachgoers stung as Portuguese Man O’ Wars invade northern Spain’s shores

HUNDREDS of swimmers have been stung by Portuguese Man O’ Wars in northern Spain as a surge in sightings fuels concern amongst beachgoers. The jellyfish-like

6 Aug, 2026 @ 16:30

Environment·Health·Lead·Northern Spain

Spain set for yet another heat dome in mid-August with temperatures to reach 40C in expat hotspots

SPAIN has been warned to prepare for a new heat dome next week that will bring sweltering temperatures of up to 40C to major expat

6 Aug, 2026 @ 15:45

Lead·Weather

Spanish family clan arrested hiding out in Mijas over multiple attempted murders near Madrid

SIX members of a family clan have been arrested while hiding out on Spain’s Costa del Sol following a gun attack on a rival gang.

6 Aug, 2026 @ 14:45

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Spain’s property market continues to cool as ‘express sales’ drop across Malaga and Alicante

SPAIN’S property market is showing signs of a slowdown in key expat territories as the number of homes flying off the market in under a

6 Aug, 2026 @ 14:11

Lead·Property

Benidorm hotel guests are robbed In dining rooms by sneaky thief during buffet breakfasts

A 43-YEAR-OLD man has been arrested for stealing items from guests who were having breakfast in various Benidorm hotels. The Policia Nacional says the man-

6 Aug, 2026 @ 14:06

Benidorm·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Man arrested for murdering estranged wife inside shoe repair shop at hypermarket in Spain

A MAN has been arrested for killing his wife inside a shoe repair store located within the Carrefour Infante hypermarket in Murcia City. The 44-year-old

6 Aug, 2026 @ 13:31

Crime & Law·Lead·Murcia

Benidorm and Costa Blanca property prices skyrocket in first quarter of 2026

British buyers once again Spain’s biggest foreign house-buying nationality even as overall sales slow

BRITONS have reclaimed the top spot as Spain’s biggest foreign homebuyers after briefly losing the crown to Dutch property hunters last year. UK buyers purchased

6 Aug, 2026 @ 13:14

Lead·Property

Need to learn to drive in Malaga? Tough luck as province has backlist of 18,000 learners and five-month waits

One instructor is calling for the head of Spain's national traffic authority to reign over the failings.

6 Aug, 2026 @ 12:44

Lead·Malaga

Expat grandad hit by a van at a Marbella cash machine three years ago is finally fitted with prosthetic leg

LIFE changed irreparably for one expat grandad three years ago as he was withdrawing money from a cash machine in San Pedro Alcantara. He was

6 Aug, 2026 @ 12:09

Lead·Marbella

Driver, 30, ‘deliberately rammed teenage tourist and fled’ in Malaga historic centre after street argument

The Policia Nacional caught up with him three weeks after the attack, which happened in the early hours of July 15 in Plaza de la

6 Aug, 2026 @ 11:53

Lead·Malaga

Teenage hitman accused of Fuengirola murder who fled Spain after being released from jail is arrested again in Belgium

A TEENAGE hitman accused of a cold-blooded execution on the Costa del Sol has been arrested in Belgium after fleeing Spain following his release from

6 Aug, 2026 @ 11:21

Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Kidnap horror on the Costa del Sol as armed thugs snatch Yemeni man and dump him at petrol station ‘severely disfigured’

TWO men have been arrested over allegedly kidnapping, torturing, and robbing a Yemeni man on the Costa del Sol, with a manhunt for a third

6 Aug, 2026 @ 09:53

Andalucia·Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Gibraltar makes first arrests for entering the Rock illegally since border opened up

THREE men have been arrested in Europort, Gibraltar's commercial dock area on the western side of the Rock, after being caught with bolt-cutters allegedly targeting

5 Aug, 2026 @ 19:10

Gibraltar·Lead

Tourist couple who had wild sex romp on Marbella motorway are tracked down and fined

A COUPLE who shocked fellow drivers on Marbella’s A7 motorway by having sex in public have been handed fines and point deductions.

5 Aug, 2026 @ 18:45

Lead·Marbella

Murder of Hungarian woman, 45, in Benahavis is reclassified as gender violence as her lodger, 61, is remanded in custody

THE murder of a Hungarian woman in Benahavis, which was initially ruled out as a case of gender violence, has now been ruled back in.

5 Aug, 2026 @ 18:15

Andalucia·Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga·Marbella

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