Three days of searching has failed to locate a man, who disappeared along the coast of Orzola while gathering seafood. Juan Acuña, aged 61, disappeared on Monday evening after setting out to hunt seafood on a rocky shore near Playa las Cocinitas in Haría. The alarm was raised by his wife when he failed to […]
Jacobo Medina has been replaced as Vice President of Lanzarote’s Cabildo by his party, the PP. Medina had occupied the Vice President’s role since the elections of 2023 and had enjoyed a close relationship with President Oswaldo Betancort of the Coalición Canaria. Rumours of a poor relationship between Medina and the leader of the PP […]
ALDI has opened its first ever supermarket in Playa Blanca, which is now the third supermarket on Lanzarote. ALDI maintains its commitment to expansion in the Canary Islands with the supermarket chain’s first opening in the archipelago of 2025, bringing its total number of shops in the Canary Islands to 16. The company plans to […]
Arrecife Ayuntamiento has reopened the town beach to bathers after receiving a report from the Canary Islands Public Health Department that certified that the water quality is optimal for bathing. Water samples were taken last Thursday and advised against bathing at the beach. On that day, various sewage networks were flooded partly due to the […]
Teguise Ayuntamiento has launched its new “Mobile Clean Point”, a new mobile recycling point that will travel the streets of the municipality to collect special waste in a safe & sustainable way. This mobile recycling point will be available at least one day a month in each village, from 8:00 to 14:00 hours. Teguise mayor, […]
Florida based cruise operator, WindStar Cruises, has announced its first-ever full winter season in the Canary Islands. Photo: WindStar Cruises. The newly introduced 10-day cruise is a round trip throughout the Canary Islands & Madeira. The itinerary includes Tenerife, La Gomera, La Palma, Madeira, Lanzarote & Gran Canaria. The voyage, named “Canary Island Idyll”, will […]
The Cabildo has announced that around 15 chefs and restaurant professionals will be flying to Madrid to show what Lanzarote has to offer at the upcoming Madrid Fusión fair. Photo: Saborea Lanzarote. This year’s edition of Madrid Fusión began today and will run until Wednesday. Over the three days chefs from Lanzarote will show off […]
The Canary Islands have been awarded with “best stand” at the most recent Fitur (International Tourism Trade Fair) event. This year, the Canary Islands has a new stand, measuring at 1,768 metres squared (223 metres squared more than last year). The Canaries, amongst the other 806 exhibitors, was awarded with “best stand” at the most […]
The Grand Teguise Playa hotel in Costa Teguise has changed owners. The society that owns the emblematic hotel that overlooks Playa Jablillo was owned by CaixaBank (60%) and the real estate company Metrópolis (40%). However, earlier this week the society was purchased by Alexandré hotels, which also owns three hotels in the Playa de las […]
Scientists are monitoring Mount Teide in Tenerife after detection systems revealed that the earth rose by a centimetre over the last year at four monitoring stations on the volcano. Itahiza Domínguez, of the National Geographic Institute (IGN), said that the deformations do not mean an increase in the probability of an eruption in the short […]
