As crowds prepare to take to the streets for 'La Diada' on Sunday, the Catalan National Day. The Local's Barcelona correspondent Steve Tallantyre has put together an essential guide to the festival that's grabbing international headlines.
Spain’s King Felipe confessed to workers at the Department of Transport on Monday that he had received a fine from them "years ago" but avoided giving further details.
The website of the Catalan household appliance manufacturer Taurus was taken down by jihadist hackers from the Middle East on Wednesday who may have confused it with the Brazilian-US gunmaker of the same name.
The Spanish government has approved measures to imprison people who have sex with animals but ruled out punishing organizers of illegal shows in which animals are mistreated.
Police are investigating after a Spanish diplomatic briefcase containing 500 blank visas went missing at Lagos airport last week before it could be delivered to the local consulate.
Police in Zaragoza and Tarragona have taken down a network of art fraudsters who tried to sell nine forged copies of works by Miró, Picasso and Matisse for hundreds of thousands of euros.
The 'tree of Gernika', an oak that has symbolized the freedom of the people of the Basque Country since the Middle Ages, is to be replaced next month for the fourth time in history because the current specimen has been declared dead.
A company offering trips to the annual carnival in the southern Spanish city of Cadiz has been criticized for including alcohol and 'happy condoms' alongside transport and food in its €18 ($21) package deal.
Spanish police in Zaragoza recently stopped a car carrying the presumed head of a drugs gang and seized two chorizo sausage sandwiches containing a surprise ingredient – 150g of cocaine.
A survey by Spain's Instutute of Economic Studies (IEE) has revealed that the average cost per hour for labour in the manufacturing sector in Spain in 2013 was €22.68 ($27.90), much lower than in some European countries but well above costs in the Philippines (€1.83) and China (€4.44).
An investigation by Spanish regulators into a TV advertisement that shows two men kissing has been criticized as "homophobic" by the Catalan Gay Liberation Front (FAGC) who asked "Can anyone imagine a complaint about a kiss between a man and a woman?"
UPDATED: An 18-year-old man fell onto the rails of the Spanish capital's underground transport system on Friday morning and was run over by a train, losing his left leg below the knee.
King Felipe VI on Thursday laid out new rules for Spain's royal family that will prevent members from accepting free flights on commercial airlines, luxury gifts or favours which 'could compromise the dignity of the institution'.
Google has backtracked on a recent decision to alter the name of the Great Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba to 'Cordoba Cathedral' in its online map service after thousands of angry citizens started a petition on the campaign website Change.org.
The head of the riot squad in Madrid for Spain's national police force has enlisted his colleagues to pose for a charity calendar in support of the city's Down Syndrome Foundation.
Staff at Madrid's Barajas airport are threatening to go on strike after allegedly being violently intimidated by a roving gang of 50 people who offer an unauthorized luggage shrink-wrap service to travellers.
Two pit bull terriers ate the body of their 65-year-old German owner after he died of natural causes inside his mobile home on the Spanish island of Majorca, then died themselves.
Barcelona could introduce fines for drivers who harass cyclists by honking horns at them, driving too close or using other forms of intimidating behaviour.
Spain can't afford the luxury of training young researchers who then head overseas with no return in sight, Spain's King Felipe said on Tuesday as he called on the government to prevent the country suffering a "lost generation" of scientists.
Eight people were taken to hospital in Oviedo, in the north of Spain, on Saturday after a birthday party guest served a chocolate cake which had been baked by his mother using marijuana butter.
A 20-year-old student who infiltrated the inner circles of Spanish business and politics before being accused of a string of deception charges has claimed that he was arrested because he "knew too much".
Airborne archaeologists using plane-mounted lasers have discovered a 2,000-year-old network of ancient gold mines in the Eria valley in north-western Spain.
A public funeral was held in the Spanish town of Fuensalida on Sunday for three teenagers run over a day earlier by a driver who later tested positive for alcohol. Two other children were also injured, one of them seriously.
