Alicante News & Information

SNOW was lying thick on the ground in the tiny Alicante-province town of Ibi yesterday (Friday), despite the unseasonably-warm late-December temperatures.

AN ORGANISED cannabis-dealing racket played classical music to their plants to help them grow, according to police in the south of the province of Alicante.

A BRITISH couple on a Ryanair flight from Alicante to claimed their seat was 'covered in dried vomit' and that the cabin crew 'refused to clean it'.

A YOUNG woman from Elche lured by a sect in Perú has spoken out about her 18-month ordeal at the hands of its leader, who raped and beat the females he captured.

ASTRONAUT and science minister Pedro Duque made an 'emergency' appearance in Parliament earlier today (Thursday) after a Spanish tabloid revealed he had set up a dormant company to reduce taxes on a villa he and...

TEENS at a Torrevieja high school have staged a peaceful protest over centre rules banning them from wearing shorts.

THE actor who played the cigar-chewing Sergeant Apone in the 1986 cult film Aliens has been found dead in his villa in the Orihuela Costa area (southern Alicante province).

TIDES and the moon's phases could have been what really won World War II – any miscalculation in either could have meant the death toll of nearly 20,000 men skyrocketing on June 6, 1944 and may have led to France...

LOW-COST airline Jet2 and its tied tour operator Jet2Holidays has advertised 150 new jobs at its base in Alicante-Elche airport.

BENIDORM theme park Terra Natura's most iconic and popular resident celebrated her birthday in true Bollywood style this week as a nod to her Indian roots and invited all members of the public to join her.

The Valencian Community - typically hot, sunny and dry at this time of year - has seen torrential rain over the past few hours, with a total of 105.2 litres per square metre falling in the popular holiday spot of Javea...

AN EARTHQUAKE in the inland village of Albatera (Alicante province) close to Murcia's north-eastern border reached 4.2 on the Richter scale, according to the National Geographical Institute (IGN) on Twitter.