Community/Public Services news & information for Costa Blanca

PROPERTY prices, housing quality, healthcare and education, living costs and the job market are among the factors that determine where the happiest locations in Spain are, according to research by a leading national...

PRINCESS Leonor has spent her Easter holidays visiting a refugee centre attending to new arrivals from Ukraine – her first official Royal engagement of 2022 and her second since heading off to college abroad.

AROUND 110,000 Ukrainian refugees have arrived in Spain since the conflict broke out, and 47,000 have so far been granted asylum, national president Pedro Sánchez reveals.

ANYONE living in the Orihuela Costa area who is not yet fluent in Spanish can improve their skills – or learn the language from scratch – free of charge in a month-long course starting after Easter.

A 'QUALITY of life' survey among residents in Spain's biggest cities shows attitudes have changed since the start of the pandemic, according to national consumer organisation OCU, which conducted the...

TAKE your pooch for a stroll and raise money for guide dogs – or if you don't have a woofster of your own, get hiking and just pretend there's an imaginary friend on a leash next to you.

IF YOU'RE living in Spain and want to be sure you don't miss the boat for your Covid vaccine when the time comes, you need to make sure you're on the padrón, or your town hall headcount register, warns...

A GROWING trend towards working from home triggered almost by default in early 2020 means the pull of big, global cities is slackening off – but those which the world's employees remain attracted to are largely in...

GUARDIA Civil officers in a northern Alicante-province coastal town bought groceries out of their own pockets for a family with practically no income and who were in dire straits because of the national quarantine.

NEW YEAR'S Day tends to get off to an uncomfortable start in coastal parts of Spain – and not just because of the monster hangover or stomach acid from forcing down 12 grapes in as many seconds.

SPAIN'S world-famous 'super-surgeon' Dr Pedro Cavadas has successfully reimplanted a four-year-old boy's toes ripped off when he became trapped in a fairground ride.

A GROUP of teenagers on board the Aquarius refugee boat which docked in Valencia on Sunday have run away from the shelter they were placed in and remain on the missing list.