The Valencia regional government is investing almost 100,000 euro in three groups aimed at promoting the area´s family, food and activity values. A grant of 35,000 euro is going to the Turismo Familiar de la Comunitat Valenciana, an association which creates and promotes activities for families. Their funding will be used for the production of …

The town hall of Torrevieja has launched an urgent appeal to find good, loving homes for a total of 26 animals that were seized after a 30-strong drug-trafficking gang was dismantled in the El Limonar area. The councillor for Animal Protection, Carmen Morate, has stressed the importance of finding homes for these animals as quickly …

A man was killed on Friday morning when he was hit by an articulated lorry as he crossed the A-31 (Alicante-Madrid) in Petrer. According to the Guardia Civil, the incident occurred at around eight o’clock at kilometer 202.4 of the road in the Madrid direction. The Guardia Civil are investigating the causes of an incident …

A church in Novelda has employed a unique team of security guards, equipped with feather, wings and talons. The Archpriest in the Parish of San Pedro has installed a nest of three breeding owls...

The local street market in Torrevieja (Alicante) will finally relocate to a new designated site away from the town centre. The move has been pending for many years, but will finally take place on the 12th of May, relocating to a purpose-built area near to the local waterpark and hypermarket shopping centres. Traditionally, the market, […]

Torrevieja council is planning to spend 350 thousand euro on a new expanded municipal animal shelter. Subject to approval of the authority’s 2017 budget, animal protection councillor Carmen Morate says that the current site would be redisgned and expanded with the land having an area of just over three thousand square metres. There would be

In the winter of 1878, on March the 2nd t be precise, Alicante city saw the hottest temperature ever recorded for the season, with thermometers registering 31 degrees. According to the state meteorological office, AEMET, today, the 10th of March, 2017, at 12:50, temperatures peaked at 32.5 degrees, thus making today the hottest winter day

A maritime coastguard boat has rescued nine people from a boat off the coast of the Alicante province on Saturday morning, transferring them to Torrevieja to be dealt with. Those rescued are said to have originated in Ghana and were heading to Spain to start a new life. The Salvamento Maritimo crew delivered the rescued

A man in his 30´s, said to be of foreign nationality. drowned whilst swimming off the beach of playa de Las Negras en Níjar (Almería), according to sources with the Emergency Services of Andalusia. The accident occurred about 17:20 on Saturday, at which time when a companion of the victim alerted the emergency services that […]

An Irish tourist has drowned late Saturday while in the beach area of ​​the playa del hotel Fariones, en Puerto del Carmen, Lanzarote. The emergency services received the alert at around 3pm on Saturday, immediately attending the scene, but there was nothing anybody could do to preserve life.

More than 70 people were reported injured following an explosion in a cafe’s kitchen in the fair of Velez-Malaga on Saturday. More than 50 were admitted to hospitals, four of them in a serious though not life-threatening condition.

The government has increased the minimum wage in 2016 by just over 6 euro per month, from 648.60 to 655.08 euro, an increase of 1% and far below the 11% increase called for by some of the main trade unions, Read More ...