Andalucia News & Information

The forest fire which yesterday struck a natural park between Almuñécar (Granada) and Nerja (Málaga) is still active after having burnt 100 hectares of undergrowth and pine trees, although it is “almost under...

High temperatures derived from climatic change are threatening vegetation on Sierra Nevada, in particular its endemic flora, according to the yearly Environment report published by the Junta de Andalucía.

The fire, which has burnt over 26.500 hectares in Huelva and Sevilla, is now under control. Regional president Chaves has promised a minimum of 700.000 euros in aid for the affected areas.

National Police officers attached to the Costa del Sol Organised Crime Unit arrested 58 year old Brian Brendon Wright in Marbella yesterday. Wright is believed to have been the boss of a criminal network and one of the...

The leader of a secretive Spanish religious sect, who once claimed that the Vatican was controlled by the devil, has died at the sect´s headquarters in the southern Spanish village of El Palmar de Troya (photo) near...

Eighteen people were injured, four of whom seriously, yesterday when a merry-go-round at a fairground in Sevilla´s Guillena zoo collapsed. Fifteen of those injured were children.

A mobile Red Cross unit in Granada is slowly gaining the confidence of prostitutes and their customers by providing them with free condoms. So far this year, four former prostitutes have decided to stop what they are...

In a joint operation involving British and Spanish police code-named "Sugar," thirteen British people have been arrested for their alleged involvement in a drug-trafficking and money-laundering ring based on the...

The body of a British man was found at the bottom of a well in the village of Alora (Málaga) at around 4pm yesterday afternoon by a man out for a stroll near the Pedro La Torre stream in an area known locally as Pollo...

Well, apart from uniting Spain, completing the 700 year Reconquest by retaking Granada from the Moorish invaders in 1492 (main photo, the Patio de la Acequía in the Generalife Palace), funding the voyages of...

A 71 year old retired Guardia Civil shot his 68 year old wife, his 35 year old daughter, then turned the gun on himself. The incident occurred shortly before 5pm at the couple's home on Antilla beach in Lepe...

The young woman who was found dead at Cubillas reservoir near Granada has been identified by her parents as 27 year old Beatriz CR, who went missing when she went out for a jog on Wednesday night along the calle...