Canary Islands News & Information

65 illegal immigrants from Africa landed on the rocky Caracol Beach, Tuineje, today, and were immediately taken into police custody. 5 of the immigrants had to be airlifted from the beach and taken to hospital because...

The Minister for Development, Francisco Alvarez Cascos, explained today that the Spanish Airport and Aerial Navegation Department (AENA) are quite willing to "continue supplying any technical information"...

National Police have arrested five members of a drug dealing gang on Lanzarote. Two Colombians, two citizens of the Dominican Republic, as well as a local man were arrested after being caught in possession of 2.2kg of...

The latest total available for the number of illegal immigrants missing after their boat went down on yesterday evening 30 miles from Fuerteventura, is 5 missing presumed dead. 31 survived, 29 of whom were taken to...

The regional government of the Canary Islands explained yesterday that a plague of at least two million locusts from Africa is attacking crops on Fuerteventura and Lanzarote. The worst affected areas so far are the...

A 21 year old Norwegian tourist was stabbed to death at around 2.30am on Monday morning as he was strolling along the Avenida Tenerife in Playa del Inglés.

Police believe that a German tourist who died after being stabbed through the chest during the early hours of this morning in the Playa del Inglés resort in the south of the island of Gran Canaria, may have been the...

Sources close to the investigation into the murder of 15 year old Fernanda Fabiola Urzúa have clarified further details about the case.

Ryanair will stop operating flights to and from Fuerteventura from January 31st next year, affecting five thousand passengers who have already booked flights.

Two women, a Briton and a Spaniard, died yesterday after rocks broke away from a 40 metre high cliff and fell onto a beach in Tenerife.

The duty judge in Lanzarote, Jerónimo Alonso, left Aminatou Haidar to continue her hunger strike after overseeing a medical examination of the Sahrawi human rights activist in the airport last night.