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The Canaries does it again: more big winners in the El Niño lottery
The Canaries does it again: more big winners in the El Niño lottery

There have been big winners in the Canary Islands in El Gordo, Euromillions, and now El Niño lottery this festive period...

More bad weather as Storm Filomena will affect the Canary Islands until Saturday
More bad weather as Storm Filomena will affect the Canary Islands until Saturday

Winds reached 128 kmh in La Gomera yesterday, and Gran Canaria had the most rain...

Good news for Spain: The EMA approves the Moderna vaccine
Good news for Spain: The EMA approves the Moderna vaccine

Spain will receive 16 million doses of the formula in two batches, and will get the first in two weeks time...

A million reasons to be happy for one lucky person on Kings Day!
A million reasons to be happy for one lucky person on Kings Day!

The Euromillions makes a new millionaire in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in the Kings eve draw...

What restrictions will be in place from Sunday in the Canary Islands?
What restrictions will be in place from Sunday in the Canary Islands?

Current restrictions finish on Sunday in all the islands... the government and health authorities meet tomorrow to assess what will be in place afterwards...

Covid update: 229 new cases and 10 more deaths in last 24 hours
Covid update: 229 new cases and 10 more deaths in last 24 hours

Full stats for all the islands... almost 11,000 people have now had vaccine in the Canaries...

Canaryfly cancels all flights for 10 weeks
Canaryfly cancels all flights for 10 weeks

The airline has cancelled all flights until March 21st as inter-island travel drops to an all time low...

Gran Canaria sand sculpture hailed as one of the best Christmas images in the world
Gran Canaria sand sculpture hailed as one of the best Christmas images in the world

The Times newspaper is featuring an image of the monumental nativity scene made from sand on the Gran Canaria beach, along with impressive topical postcards captured in China, Austria, New York, Turkey, Chile and Moscow...

Police find marijuana plantation in a warehouse in Fuerteventura by smelling it!
Police find marijuana plantation in a warehouse in Fuerteventura by smelling it!

266 marijuana plants and 14 kilograms of the same substance were seized...

Four dead from cayuco that arrived on beach in El Medano this morning
Four dead from cayuco that arrived on beach in El Medano this morning

The boat arrived by its own means at the beach of El Cabezo in El Medano with 47 people on board, four of them lost their lives during the crossing from Africa…

440 fines this week in Tenerife for different breaches of Covid regulations
440 fines this week in Tenerife for different breaches of Covid regulations

During the past week almost half of them (204) were in Adeje and Arona…

Dead body found on coast of Taliarte in Gran Canaria
Dead body found on coast of Taliarte in Gran Canaria

A group of people spotted the body floating in the sea...

January 5th and 6th are no exception: 10pm curfew and limited meetings apply in Tenerife
January 5th and 6th are no exception: 10pm curfew and limited meetings apply in Tenerife

These two days are the last holidays under the Christmas restrictions in Spain and the Canary Islands, and will be reviewed on Thursday…

Is the ‘British variant’ of coronavirus already in the Canary Islands?
Is the ‘British variant’ of coronavirus already in the Canary Islands?

The virus with which a woman in La Palma, who returned from England has been infected with, has a 90% chance of being the same one that is sweeping the UK...

The Canary Islands Government defends the use of hotels for immigrant children
The Canary Islands Government defends the use of hotels for immigrant children

Social Rights insists that the threat by the mayor of Mogan to evict them from tourist areas has no legal or ethical path... The Government is currently looking after more than 2,400 unaccompanied immigrants under the age of 16...

Policeman who is part of immigration team in Gran Canaria dies of Covid
Policeman who is part of immigration team in Gran Canaria dies of Covid

The National Police officer, who came over from Malaga to help, had a negative antigen test last Wednesday, two days later a PCR test was positive, three days later he was dead...

TUI gets EU approval for a further €1.25 billion aid from Germany
TUI gets EU approval for a further €1.25 billion aid from Germany

With this, TUI will have received almost €5 billion is support packages since the pandemic started...

Covid update: Gran Canaria had more new cases than Tenerife yesterday
Covid update: Gran Canaria had more new cases than Tenerife yesterday

Four Islands now have 7-day incidence rate over 50... Tenerife's continues to drop slightly...

England goes back in to full lockdown
England goes back in to full lockdown

England is back into national lockdown with immediate effect until the middle of February...

Ministry of Health are investigating Covid death of 21 year old woman in Tenerife
Ministry of Health are investigating Covid death of 21 year old woman in Tenerife

They want to confirm the cause of death of such a young person with no known illnesses…