Thief caught boarding ferry on Spain’s Costa Blanca with big stash of stolen loot AN ALGERIAN national was intercepted in Alicante as he was about to board a ferry for his home country with a big stash of stolen 4 Aug, 2023 @ 16:30 Alicante·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Valencian Community
Man given brutal beating by assailant with ‘spiked cane’ on Alicante area street in Spain A 25-year-old man was clubbed by a ‘spiked’ cane in a motiveless daytime attack in an Alicante Province town. The victim needed emergency surgery and 25 Nov, 2022 @ 11:24 Alicante·Crime & Law·Lead·Valencian Community
Hot pursuit car chase roars through towns in Spain’s Alicante area after motorist dodges police checkpoint AN unlicensed young motorist led the Guardia Civil on an hour-long chase through Alicante Province towns after turning round from a checkpoint. The man, 20, 20 May, 2022 @ 13:30 Alicante·Crime & Law·Lead
Drug traffickers convert ‘squatted’ homes into cryptocurrency and marijuana farms on Spain’s Costa Blanca FIVE members of a Costa Blanca drugs gang have been jailed in a major strike by the Guardia Civil. Six people were bailed and two 11 Apr, 2022 @ 18:30 Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead
Children suffer burn and smoke injuries as fire rips through Alicante area apartment block in Spain A fire tore through the bottom floor of a Monforte del Cid apartment block on Wednesday leaving 11 people hospitalised. A girl, 7, suffered hand 6 Apr, 2022 @ 16:30 Alicante·Lead
Woman is hurled to her death from a van that spun off a Costa Blanca bridge in Spain A 55-year-old woman died after she was hurled out of a van that careered off a bridge in the Monforte del Cid area. The Alicante 28 Jun, 2021 @ 11:51 Costa Blanca·Lead
Alicante town brings in horse-drawn ‘trash buggy’ The change is meant to save the town over €200,000 annually 9 Aug, 2014 @ 10:00 National News