Costa del Sol Spain

The summer is coming to an end and while hoping that there is considerable rainfall in autumn, Malaga province faces a looming crisis with its reservoirs at 19.2 per cent of their capacity, with just 117 cubic hectometres stored, compared to the 147 they had a year ago. Given this scenario, the project to build a desalination plant in the …

A BULL has died while taking part in a the traditional ‘bous a la mar’ event on the Costa Blanca. The fiesta in Javea sees a bull ring set up near the beach, from where the animal is forced to run towards the shore. Spectators line up along the route, with many deciding to run alongside the bull and jump …

AT least 435 boat migrants on have arrived to the Canary Islands in Spain this weekend. A boat carrying 75 people from sub-Saharan Africa, one of them a woman, was rescued some nine miles off the shore of Gran Canaria on Friday. A second vessel, ferrying 174 migrants, including 12 women and four minors, was escorted into the port of …

Several hundred Americans living in Malaga are registered with Democrats Abroad, the umbrella organisation for Democratic Party supporters around the world. And the group is practically new to the area: it has not yet been established in the province for a year. Earlier this month, coinciding with the Democratic National Convention held in Chicago, which has nominated Kamala Harris and …

Some people see it very clearly. “The holes at the top would be the eyes and the rest would be the mouth,” they say. No cats’ whiskers or ears. With a little imagination it could be said that the Cueva del Gato (Cat Cave) owes its name to its resemblance to the head of this animal. Throughout the year it …

Owning a home in Malaga is becoming more and more of a luxury and developers who until now had only created residential projects on the western Costa del Sol are being attracted to the city. And there seems to be no district that can resist the business plans of these companies. Proof of this is the project that Cogitari Homes …

It seems more than a shop, it’s more like a game. The people who visit Destock Colis, a new shop that has just opened its doors in Malaga city, come to play rather than to buy something they need. “This is like a raffle that always offers prizes,” its workers tell anyone who decides to participate. Located in the Rosaleda …

A team of professionals from the biomedical research institute of Malaga and nanomedicine platform (Ibima Plataforma BIONAND) and the University of Malaga (UMA) have recently presented a new scientific study on the mechanisms of coronary artery formation, with potential therapeutic implications for heart diseases such as myocardial infarction (heart attack). The research, led by senior researcher in the institute’s and …

With no famous acting names, barely any budget and shooting undercover. None of that has prevented the novelist Javier Ruiz (born in Malaga in 1997) from making his feature film debut with Tienes 24 Horas (You’ve got 24 hours), a psychological thriller with an Alfred Hitchcock flavour that has been competitively selected for more than a dozen possible awards around …

Rather than digging a lot, the key is to dig in the right place. A maxim that archaeologists know only too well. One of these experts keeps repeating this phrase thanks to recent events. The archaeologist in question is Juan de Dios Ramírez, who has been in charge of excavations at Malaga cathedral for almost a decade and who has …