Canary Islands News & Information

A FATHER has been arrested in Arrecife (Lanzarote) for leaving his eight-year-old son locked in his car to go to a bingo hall.

A NATIONAL Police sub-chief in Tenerife has been found shot dead in his office with what appears to be a gun used in the force.

NUMEROUS partygoers were injured this morning (Sunday) when a nightclub floor collapsed in Tenerife.

TRAFFIC authorities are working closely with Tenerife's island government to try to prevent elderly pedestrians from being run over through a joint campaign aimed at protecting walkers most at risk.

A RISE of 2% in British tourists visiting the Canary Islands despite airline connections dropping by 9.3% for low season has spurred authorities on to try to maintain or improve on this success – and part of its...

THE CASE of missing Yéremi Vargas who vanished from his Canary Island village 10 years ago has been closed because of 'lack of evidence' to incriminate the number one suspect in his disappearance.

A MAFIA-STYLE racket trafficking migrants to the Canary Islands has been busted after three years of investigations and its two ringleaders arrested.

AN EARTHQUAKE reaching 4 on the Richter scale shook the south-west of Tenerife in the early hours of this morning (Tuesday), but no damage was caused as it was located a very long way beneath the surface.

A CARGO ship loaded with ammonium nitrate is floating adrift off the coast of Gran Canaria with no crew, coastguard watchers report.

TENERIFE South airport was shut for five hours on Tuesday night after a landing wheel on an incoming flight burst on the runway.

Two men have died in a head-on collision on the TF-1 in Tenerife after one of them, a Frenchman, drove the wrong way down the motorway.

A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD child is in a critical condition after nearly drowning in a hotel swimming pool in Lanzarote.