Budget airline Vueling has announced it will discontinue its route between London Gatwick and Asturias, the only direct flight between the United Kingdom and the northern Spanish region.
Ryanair will completely pull out of the northern Asturias region, further consolidating the low-cost airline's approach of turning its back on Spain's smaller regional airports and focusing on the tourism hotspots.
The green northern region, which is becoming an increasingly popular summer destination due to its cooler weather, has announced it will implement a new tourist tax on visitors.
Two workers died and at least four others were injured on Thursday after two cranes collapsed in the northern Spanish port of Gijón, emergency services officials said.
People often think they know what Spanish food is all about – paellas, tapas, seafood and even Basque pintxos, but the Asturian city of Oviedo, Spain's Capital of Gastronomy 2024, challenges all that. Find out where to go and what to order in this ultimate foodie's guide.
Asturias is set to roll out limits on Airbnb properties and other short-term rentals even though the green northern region receives far fewer tourists than other parts of Spain, proof of how far-reaching the country's rent crisis has become.
A so-called 'white tide' of plastic pellets are washing up on the shores of Galicia and Asturias, polluting beaches and causing a political blame game between national and regional governments.
If you want to buy land in Spain for less than €50,000, this beautiful northern region has plenty of well-sized plots meant for agriculture and building.
The pandemic has played havoc with everyone's travel plans. But Madrid-based journalist Paul D. Thacker was determined to escape the heat of the city and enjoy a proper family holiday.
Rural and green travel is the new frontier for Spain's tourism industry as it tries to break free from its dependence on mass seaside travel and fights off stiff competition from cheaper Mediterranean rivals.
The Polish port city of Gdańsk has received the prestigious Princess of Asturias Award for Concord - seen as the Hispanic world's Nobel Peace Prize - for its “dynamic economy, openness, civic cohesion and tolerant nature, especially through programmes aimed at the integration of immigrants and defence of the LGBT community,”a statement from the prize-givers said.
US writer Siri Hustvedt on Wednesday was awarded Spain's prestigious Princess of Asturias prize for literature for her work which the jury said was among "the most ambitious on today's literary
scene"
The acclaimed British theatre director Peter Brook has been honoured with one of Spain’s most prestigious prizes, scooping the Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts.
Marc Furnival is a British architect also registered in Spain, who now lives and works in Asturias, the mountainous and coastal region of northern Spain.
US philosopher Michael Sandel, a fierce critic of the influence of the business world on society, was awarded on Wednesday Spain's prestigious Princess of Asturias award for social sciences, with the jury describing him as "one of today's foremost intellectuals".
Amref Health Africa, a Kenya-based flying doctors group, was awarded on Wednesday Spain's prestigious Princess of Asturias award for international cooperation for their efforts "to respond to the needs of millions of people on the African continent".
Karen Armstrong, a former nun from Britain who became one of the foremost religious scholars has won the prestigious Princess of Asturias award for social sciences.
South African visual artist William Kentridge, best known for his animated films of shape-shifting charcoal drawings, won on Thursday Spain's top arts prize, the Princess of Asturias award.
Hugh Herr, this year's winner of Spain's top science prize, tells The Local how a tragic accident transformed him from a lazy student to a scientific pioneer and why he really doesn't like the term 'disabled'.
In this week's instalment of 'My Spanish career' The Local talks to Frankie Sikes, a therapist, trainer and the founder of rather a unusual walking retreat in northern Spain.
