Andalucia News & Information

POLICE and customs in Andalucía have seized 88 tonnes of contraband tobacco worth €14 million in what is said to have been Spain's largest smuggling heist of its type in history.

Real estate professionals in Marbella are predicting a strong outlook for its local property market in 2016, following a year of consolidation of recovery into growth on a regional level in the Costa del Sol.

THE Costa del Sol has suffered its worst floods in a quarter of a century, with buses and cars under water, residents on rooftops, one woman dead and a family with nine children rescued by swimmers.

USED tissues surreptitiously collected in a café means a Sevilla woman could win her fight to be recognised as an ex-bullfighter's biological daughter.

A 25-YEAR-OLD man from Jaén is facing 12 years in jail for bathing his baby in boiling water, causing him permanent scarring.

AN EARTHQUAKE in the province of Almería last night (Sunday) caused a flood of calls to the 112 emergency hotline, but no damage was reported.

A FLIGHT heading for Málaga from the Spanish-owned city-province of Melilla on the northern Moroccan coast was delayed after an African teenager was found in the hold.

TWO friends from the UK who decided to catch up over Christmas met in Málaga, because it was cheaper than catching the train to each other's home cities.

SIX bodies of African migrants have been found off the coast of the province of Cádiz after their raft sank in the high seas as they attempted to reach Europe through the 'back door'.

TENS of thousands of residents marched across Andalucía cities in protest over their regional government's funding cuts in healthcare yesterday (Sunday).

A LEAGUE-LEVEL women's rugby team member has been found dead in her Málaga home aged just 26, lying in the corridor with multiple bruising all over her body, emergency services say.

A YOUNG woman from Spain's far south-west took just two days to find her long-lost brother after announcing her search on Twitter, having spent the previous 10 years trying to trace him without success.