Canary Islands News & Information

DISNEY is considering shooting the next episode of Star Wars in the Canary Islands.

GALE-FORCE winds of up to 130 kilometres per hour are due to hit the Canary Islands and the met office has issued a red alert.

PETROLEUM giant REPSOL plans to start drilling for oil off the coasts of Fuerteventura and Lanzarote between October and December this year in the hope of finding fossil fuel in the eastern Atlantic.

ANOTHER coach accident on a winding mountain road has claimed a holidaymaker's life just 12 days after a Swiss man died when a bus overturned on the island.

RUSSIAN authorities want to set up the largest telescope in the world in the Canary Islands to allow scientists and tourists to get a better view of outer space.

A BRITISH woman has died while swimming in the sea in Lanzarote, emergency services confirm.

Officers were called out by worried neighbours of the empty home in the island's capital and say the nest was in an indoor hallway and contained literally millions of wasps.

A BRITISH man has died in a brawl in Lanzarote which involved his girlfriend and possibly another woman.

Peter Henley (pictured), a keen walker and photographer, had been on holiday on the island since December 6 but was due back on December 18.

The town council in Mogán, in the south of the island of Gran Canaria, has today approved a new by-law that reserves 75% of its beaches for non smokers, only allowing smoking on the remaining 25%.

AN underwater volcano which has been bubbling away off the coast of El Hierro since the summer is rising closer and closer to the surface, according to geologists.

Civil Protection authorities in the Canary Islands today took the decision to close off access to two coves on the south side of the island of El Hierro close to the eruption site, after detecting an accumulation of...