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Axarquia to be left a ‘poor cousin’ if Junta de Andalucia leaves it off AVE railway plans

Politicians in Axarquia are urging the Junta de Andalucia not to forget them during plans to build new high-speed railway. The long discussed AVE service,

15 Feb, 2018 @ 14:11

Lead·Malaga

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

14 Feb, 2018 @ 16:01

Almeria·Food & Drink·La Cultura·Lead

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

1 Feb, 2018 @ 14:36

Business & Finance·Environment·Lead·Nature·Travel News

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

5 Jan, 2018 @ 15:13

Environment·Health·Property

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

12 Dec, 2017 @ 12:39

Business & Finance·Crime & Law·Lead·National News

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

15 Nov, 2017 @ 17:40

La Cultura·Lead·Sevilla

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

11 Nov, 2017 @ 17:46

Business & Finance·Health

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 -

9 Nov, 2017 @ 12:10

Education·Sevilla

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%.

8 Nov, 2017 @ 18:01

Business & Finance·Education

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.

5 Nov, 2017 @ 11:00

Environment·Lead·Nature

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.

4 Nov, 2017 @ 11:00

Environment·Health·Other News

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

2 Aug, 2017 @ 11:46

Health·Lead·Malaga·Mallorca·National News

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

7 Jun, 2017 @ 09:59

Lead·Malaga

Junta commit to green energy in Andalucia

Officials want to reduce the region’s energy consumption by 25%

26 May, 2017 @ 16:09

Environment

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

12 May, 2017 @ 11:45

Almeria·Environment·Lead

WARNING: Malaga hit by Andalucia-wide food poisoning outbreak due to contaminated tuna

Consumers have been affected in Malaga, Cordoba, Granada, Jaen and Sevilla

11 May, 2017 @ 15:33

Business & Finance·Cadiz·Cordoba·Food & Drink·Granada·Health·Jaen·Lead·Malaga·Sevilla

Date set for construction of Estepona’s €15m public hospital

UTEOgensa-Helopav has been awarded the construction for the project

5 May, 2017 @ 15:21

Health·Lead

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

1 May, 2017 @ 11:00

Environment·Lead·Nature

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

1 May, 2017 @ 10:00

Lead·Politics

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.

28 Apr, 2017 @ 18:30

Business & Finance

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

28 Apr, 2017 @ 15:00

Environment·Huelva·Lead·Nature·Sevilla

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

25 Apr, 2017 @ 14:33

Lead·Malaga·Nature