Andalucian city hoping to win Spanish ‘Gastronomic Capital’ title
The city of Almeria is vying for the title of Spanish Gastronomic Capital 2019 by promoting its tradition of tapas. Signing an agreement to build
Junta drafts up plans to overhaul transport network along Costa del Sol
The draft plan called Plan de Ordenación del Territorio (POT), is part of a 20-year scheme to ease mobility along the coast and is more
Long-awaited health centre gets the green light in San Pedro
The health centre will replace an existing building on a 3,000 square metre site to provide primary healthcare for San Pedro, Nueva Andalucia, Benahavis and
ERE WE GO: Spain’s biggest corruption trial EVER to begin in Andalucia tomorrow
THE biggest corruption case in Spanish history will finally begin this week. Seven years after judge Mercedes Alaya first began investigating the more than 200
HOLY MOLY: Junta de Andalucia fines nuns €170,000 for restoring 17th century organ without permission
A GROUP of nuns have been fined €170,000 by the Junta for beginning upgrades on a 17th century organ without permission. The culture ministry has
Andalucia Health Service to receive its largest cash injection in history in budget breakdown
Almost a third of the entire budget will go towards health, with €9 billion alone going towards the maintaining of the Andalucian Health Service, the
Junta in desperate plea for emergency teachers as classroom crisis worsens
The Junta has taken unprecedented action by issuing an emergency call via text and email for teachers - or anyone with a teaching qualification -
Anger grows as students in Andalucia are being priced out of university
The central government intends to reduce GDP expenditure on education from 4.1% to 3.6%.
Junta backtracks on major mining plans in protected region near Merida
Junta says the plans were a necessary part of the area’s petition for protected status and they expected no company to come forward.
Massive amount of fires across Spain were the result of arsonists, new figures reveal
The Guardia Civil has investigated 387 fires across Spain, 53 fires of which were caused by negligent behaviour.
KILL THE DRUG: Olive Press launches campaign to ban deadly painkiller Nolotil in Spain
The drug seems to mostly affect people of fair skin, from the likes of the UK and Scandinavia, by poisoning their bone marrow and destroying
Expat Mijas couple furious after waiting more than a year for essential disabled parking permit
After ten months of hearing nothing, the Junta rejected their application
Junta commit to green energy in Andalucia
Officials want to reduce the region’s energy consumption by 25%
Green group urges investigation into potential unlawful water extraction in superintensive olive grove in Almeria
Ecologistas en Accion has urged the Spanish Prosecution Service to investigate the unnamed business, which is currently carrying out suspicious activity in a super intensive
WARNING: Malaga hit by Andalucia-wide food poisoning outbreak due to contaminated tuna
Consumers have been affected in Malaga, Cordoba, Granada, Jaen and Sevilla
Date set for construction of Estepona’s €15m public hospital
UTEOgensa-Helopav has been awarded the construction for the project
Hunting licence renewals drop in Spain and Andalucia
A total of 2,936 permisos in the region lapsed without renewal in 2016, much higher than in Madrid (1,803) and Cataluña (1,423), the other top
Andalucia Junta urges Spain Government rethink after it slashes employment grants
Andalucia has lost €24.3m in funding to encourage more jobs and tackle long term unemployment this year compared to last, the only Spanish autonomous region
Multi-million euro boost ‘will attract more visitors’ to Andalucia
The fund is the latest attempt by the junta to encourage more ecotourism in the region to make the sector more sustainable.
Three hundred illegal wells shut down in Donana in bid to stop landowners draining wetlands
Junta officials swooped on the sites which unscrupulous parties had been using to tap an aquifer on which the Sevilla and Huelva-based national park is
Petition launched to turn Costa del Sol mountain range into national park
Over 13,500 people have already signed the campaign on Change.org to grant Estepona’s Sierra Bermeja the status jointly with neighbouring Sierra de las Nieves in
Carme Chacon, Spain’s first female defence minister, dies
Carme Chacon, who almost became leader of the PSOE, was found dead in her Madrid home on Sunday aged 46
Junta raiding Costa del Sol restaurants in crackdown on illegal fishing
Those caught with illegal fish could face hefty fines and even prison sentences.
Politicians to debate recognising Estepona mountain as a national park
Both the chambers of the junta are to discuss whether Estepona’s Sierra Bermeja can be granted the status
Over a third of Andalucia sewage plants not processing waste properly
Last November, Spain was fined €46.5m by the EU Commission due to a failure to ensure its plants were safely processing sewage
Podemos demands answers over devastating intensive olive tree growing in Almeria
The left-wing political group has sent the Junta a list of questions to explain their plans to replenish a crucial aquifer in Almeria, dubbed the
