The beaches of the Vega Baja region, which include the Orihuela Costa, will exhibit a total of 25 prestigious blue flags this summer, which is four more than last year and in spite of all the chaos on some of the local beaches involving beach bars – or lack of them. Nevertheless, this area continues to lead all others within …
Firefighters extinguished a fire in a third-floor Alicante apartment attic that had endangered the roof of a building in calle Castaños. The fire service received notice at around 14:00 on Monday that the building was on fire, sending three crews to the scene. The fire was located in the wooden attic, hampering extinction because of …
A 24-year-old has died Saturday after crashing his motorcycle against a lamppost on a curve driving along Avenida de Elche in Alicante. The crash happened at around eight o’clock with ambulances sent to the scene, but resuscitation attempts failed. There were no visible signs on the road of the motorcycles braking before crashing into the …
Four men and a woman, of Spanish, Colombia, Argentina and Ukraine nationality, one of them a minor, were arrested for a brawl in the port of Alicante where three other people were almost killed. According to the National Police, the incident occurred during the early hours of Aug. 19 on Paseo de Gomis, by the …
A 35-year-old man has been arrested in Guardamar del Segura (Alicante) for allegedly leaving his 5-year-old daughter alone in the house in order for him to go to a local karaoke bar. As reported...
The National Police are investigating the death of a child of about two years of age who died after falling from the fourth floor of a house in the city of Alicante. The tragic...
Fire crews across the Alicante province have been utilised to capacity recently, partly due to a number of forest fires, and partly due to an increase in the number of house fires. The latest,...
A major fire broke out in an industrial unit in Santa Pola on Tuesday. Fire crews from across the area attended the incident which totally destroyed one of the buildings. Many people shared images and...
This is the list of beaches across the Alicante province which obtained a Blue Flag for quality for the 2017/2018 period, in the inspections carried out last year. Dénia Les Bovetes Les Marines Molins...
Officers from Alicante Local Police have arrested two people for allegedly kidnapping a bank manager. The arrest was made in a bank branch in San Mateo, after the son of the victim reported that...
The prosecutor has asked the courts in Alicante to sentence a couple to eight months in prison, after they were caught having entered a closed and locked supermarket grounds in order to recover out...
A court has acquitted a physical education teacher at a school in Finestrat (Alicante) who was accused of molesting five girls aged between 6 and 10 years old. The tenth section of the Audiencia...
