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Monica Garcia, the Health Minister in Spain said that the draft law to ban smoking has almost been finished. The Language of Speaking SER Radio Garcia revealed on Thursday that the smoke-free zones will extend to terraces and canopies as well as work vehicles, university campus, school playgrounds sports facilities, swimming pools in public areas, and outdoor leisure spaces. The …

In catalytic converters imported to Valencia from Brazil, CUSTOMS agents have discovered 170 kilograms of cocaine. Authorities said the narcotics had a market value of over €5 million. The shipment was headed for Callosa de Segura, a southern Alicante Province town where a drug gang uses warehouses to distribute narcotics. READ MORE VALENCIA PORT They created a fake business to …

THE President of the Costa del Sol Hoteliers Association has warned that the growing sentiment of tourismophobia in Spain is ‘extremely dangerous’ and could harm the country’s leading economic sector. In an interview Malaga Hoy, Jose Luque expressed concern over the narrative that blames tourism for the housing crisis, describing it as ‘very dangerous’ and based on ‘simplistic arguments’. Luque …

Tourists heading to Spain’s Balearic Islands this summer could be met with more than just sunshine and sangria — an escalating anti-tourism movement is sweeping through Mallorca, Ibiza, and Menorca, and it’s about to peak just as holiday season begins. Activist groups and angry locals are planning a wave of protests and disruptive actions to push back against what they …

The truth is revealed when the grid goes black. Credit: Canva On April 28, 2025, the lights went out across Spain and Portugal; at the time, it was called the historic blackout—the most significant failure of its kind in a developed country in decades. According to “The Telegraph”, the blackout could have been an experiment. It was not a freak …

BRITISH residents of Malaga and Alicante provinces are being warned to swap their paper Green Certificates with the biometric TIE cards before October, or they risk being denied entry into Spain after holiday. The British Embassy in Spain has launched a targeted campaign after official data from the Spanish Ministry for Inclusion revealed that these two provinces – home to …

Last Wednesday, a DUTCHman was assaulted in Algeciras and robbed in the parking lot behind San Bernardo Bus Station. The victim was cleaning the car when two women began to search his pockets. He was then assaulted by a man, who restrained and restrained his hands.  They stole his mobile phone and €180 in cash, and fled on foot in …

According to a Ministry of the Interior announcement, six intentional murders have occurred in the Province of Malaga during the first quarter of the year 2025.  Statistically, these numbers are the same as last year’s, but there has been a 17% increase in attempted murders.  The crime wave on the Costa del Sol in recent weeks is reflected by this …

Former reality TV actor James Argent received a six-month sentence with a suspended jail term after he admitted to domestic violence committed against his model girl friend. After a violent argument, Argent, the ex-TOWIE star, pushed Nicoline Artursson (32), his former Miss Sweden, down the stairs of her apartment on Costa del Sol. The Sun reported. Artursson was hospitalized after …

Squatters in Spain find ways to get around a new, tougher law that aims to evict the squatters despite promises of a speedy trial. A change to the Criminal Procedure Act technically allows the crimes of ‘usurpation of a home’ and ‘breaking and entering’ to be heard in short hearings within a maximum period of 15 days. The squatters evictions …