‘Spectacular’ year for employment
The job market in 2021 recovered to levels from prior to the pandemic with record employment figures not seen since before the financial crash...
Cirque du Soleil shines in Alicante
The amazing Totem show by Cirque de Soleil can be enjoyed in Alicante until August 19. Here are some of the spectacular shots of...
Oiling the way – in English
Funding has been provided by the regional government for the Mediterranean Gourment Olive Oils initiative.
Valencia is helping 12 cooperatives from around the region to...
It’s time to end this horror
Acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said the government would continue to do everything in its power to ‘end this horror’ after three women were...
Speed limit reductions for towns and cities
The government has approved legal reforms in order to reduce traffic accidents.
They will set the speed limit at 30km/h on urban roads with one...
Sex exploiters arrested
GUARDIA civil organised crime units have arrested seven people and released four women in a nationwide operation against sexual exploitation and people trafficking.
Arrestes have...
Mozzie madness
SEVERAL Castellón towns are pleading the regional government to take action and help fight the tiger mosquito plague that is currently affecting residents.
Motorway to France remains blocked
Catalan farmers are continuing to block the AP-7 – the main Mediterranean highway into France.
They are calling for an end to cheap imports of...
Tragic death toll on migration routes
Nearly a thousand migrants died trying to get to Spain in the first six months of this year, according to figures produced by Caminando...
Valencia sentenced to pay emergency services €5 million
THE current government will have to pay the city’s firemen and policemen up to €5 million after failing to properly compensate them for an...
Prostitution ban ‘needed’ to shut down brothels
Valencia president Ximo Puig has said a change in the law is necessary to shut brothels after minister for equality Irene Montero wrote to...
Call for action over electricity costs
The government cannot ignore the ‘brutal’ tariff rises in the electricity market during the cold snap and must apply regulations to stop speculation, according...
Spain enjoys second quarter growth
The Spanish economy grew by 1.5% between April and June, which is 0.4% better than the preliminary results indicated in July.
Exports went up by...
The end of ETA
BASQUE terrorist group ETA announced its final dissolution on Wednesday, as Costa Blanca News last week reported it was planning to do.
In an open...
COSTA LEVANTE
‘Settling a debt’ with the ‘forgotten victims’ of the Catholic Church
The government has presented measures which it says will ‘recognise, prevent and redress’ sexual abuse which occurred in the Catholic Church in Spain.
The Ombudsman’s...
