Britain has been trading with the Canaries for six centuries, so it’s no surprise that some very amusing anglicisms have crept into the Spanish dialect of the Atlantic archipelago.
Pope Leo XIV on Friday wrapped up a week-long visit to Spain that highlighted migrant issues, but his return to Rome was held up after his plane experienced a technical problem.
Pope Leo XIV arrived in Spain's Canary Islands on Thursday to meet migrants, many of whom survived a dangerous Atlantic crossing to reach the archipelago.
The head of the World Health Organisation on Thursday published an open letter thanking the people of Tenerife for showing "moral courage" in accepting to help those aboard a cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak to evacuate.
Six years after registering Spain's first Covid case, locals in the Canary Islands are both worried and angry about the arrival of a cruise ship struck by a deadly hantavirus outbreak, reviving painful memories.
For the last few years, the Canary Islands have been talking about limiting the number of foreign homebuyers in order to help solve their property crisis. Now politicians are debating who exactly should be the target of potential restrictions.
Spain will receive a cruise ship stricken by a deadly hantavirus outbreak in "three to four days", in the Canary Islands, the health ministry said late Tuesday.
A bus carrying British tourists veered off a highway down an embankment on Spain's Atlantic island of La Gomera on Friday, killing one Briton and injuring 27 people, including three children, authorities said.
The Canary Islands' Tourism Minister who recently pushed through reforms to regulate tourist flats on the archipelago has received several threats and attacks to her property, including an AI-generated video in which she is seen being burnt alive.
Spain’s Minister of Housing and Urban Agenda has given her support to the Canary government's proposal of limiting the purchase of homes on the islands by non-resident foreigners.
The Canary Islands government has approved new regulations that force town halls to prioritise long-term housing and limit the number of holiday homes on the islands.
As the biggest Canary Island struggles against overtourism, local government in Tenerife is moving forward with an eco-tax on tourists wanting to enter the Teide national park, home to Spain's highest peak.
New data has revealed that the Canary Islands has the highest proportion of foreigners buying property anywhere in Spain, with non-Spaniards buying up around a third of the total.
The Canary Islands are once again to stage a protest against their current tourism model, this time with a march at the Teide National Park, signalling that it's not only cities which are affected by mass tourism in Spain.
Spain’s right-wing parties have rejected a proposal brought forward in the Congress and Senate to limit foreigners in the country’s two archipelagos from buying properties, with Vox labelling the move “xenophobic”.
The Canary government has announced that for the first time it will formally request measures from the EU which limit the purchase of homes in the Spanish archipelago by foreigners and non-residents.
Protesters on the Spanish island of Tenerife plan to rally against the problems overtourism is causing in the Canaries for the third time in less than a year, with a demo called for February 16th to coincide with an international travel conference.
Everywhere else in Spain it’s called 'bus' or 'autobús' but there’s a very interesting theory as to why this type of transport came to have such a weird name in the Canaries.
Spanish authorities seized four tonnes of cocaine from a fishing boat off the Canary Islands and arrested its 15 crew, officials said Friday, the latest such operation in the region.
Thousands took part in rallies in the Canary Islands' main cities on Sunday against irregular migration, which has seen a huge increase in boats washing up on its shores.
Thousands of flag-waving demonstrators hit the streets across Spain's Canary Islands on Sunday to demand restrictions to the mass tourism they say is overwhelming their Atlantic archipelago.
