After a long and sometimes brutal campaign, controversial Spanish MEP Miguel Arias Cañete has been confirmed as the European Commission's new Climate Action and Energy Commissioner.
Many of us have a tendency to leave our brains at home when heading abroad on holiday, and with that in mind governments issue travel warnings covering everything from etiquette to, most recently, Ebola. Here are some of the most striking — and eccentric — warnings about Spain.
Police in Spain's southern Almeria province are investigating the death of a dog who was savagely beaten in front of its elderly owner recently. The animal was "destroyed inside" after the attack, a vet has said.
Controversial Spanish MEP Miguel Arias Cañete is one step closer to being confirmed as the European Commission's new Climate Action and Energy Commissioner after the European Commission's legal team cleared over him over potential conflicts of interest related to his former holdings in oil firms.
Consider yourself an expert in all things culinary? Know your pulpo from your paella? Prove it with The Local's very tasty Spanish food and drinks quiz. Read on to take the test.
The straight-talking president of a top Spanish business association has caused a stir by saying she prefers not to hire women aged from 25 to 45 because they are likely to have children.
A Marbella-based Brit convicted in 2009 for the sale and supply of millions of euros worth of illegal medicinal products including Viagra has been extradited to the UK where is now in prison.
Many Catalans are fighting hard for the right to decide on whether to split from the rest of Spain. But what would an independent Catalonia actually look like? The Local gazes into the crystal ball.
The former head of the International Monetary Fund Rodrigo Rato is one of 86 top executives at Spain's Caja Madrid and Bankia banks accused of using company credit cards to buy over millions of euros worth of luxury items for personal use.
A US court on Monday handed Spanish drug lord Álvaro López Tardón a 150-year prison sentence after he was found guilty of laundering millions of dollars in drug money.
Two men who burned a portrait of Spain's former King Juan Carlos during celebrations marking Catalonia's national day in 2013 face a stiff fine if they are found guilty of injuring the dignity of the majesty.
Updated: Police in the Catalan town of Lleida have arrested the man who allegedly stabbed five people on the street on Monday, saying they now plan to charge him with committing racist attacks.
Madrid's newly baptized Margaret Thatcher Square was unofficially renamed on Tuesday after protesters placed a sticker over official signage rechristening it "Exiled Youth Square".
Updated: Police in the Spanish city of Santander have arrested a man suspected of kidnapping five children in Madrid over the last 12 months. The suspect has a criminal record, previously spending seven years in jail for sexually abusing a young girl.
Very few homes are truly fit for a king or queen, but The Local's latest property of the week — a magnificent castle in Spain's beautiful Basque Country — is grand enough to make you feel like you're living in a real-life episode of Game of Thrones.
Updated: Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Tuesday announced his government would shelve plans for a tough new law on abortions, saying there was not enough support for the legislation.
The former mayor of the Catalan town of Lloret de Mar is facing bribery and graft charges after the region's high court ruled there was strong evidence of a criminal link between him and Russian crime boss Andrei Borisovich Petrov.
Spain needs to find a constitutional solution to the "serious problem" of Catalonia, the leader of Spain's major opposition party said on Monday, calling on the government to participate in a major revamp of the 1978 document.
Spain’s central government will hold an extraordinary cabinet meeting on Saturday or Sunday if Catalonia’s regional parliament approves the “consultation” law on the referendum on Friday, a move it hopes will make a possible independence vote more legal.
Less than a day after Madrid became the first city in the world to name a square after the UK’s former conservative leader Margaret Thatcher, British expats in the Spanish capital vandalized the plaza’s signpost.
