Canaries News

Three people have been found after being reported as missing off the northern coast of Lanzarote, prompting a search and rescue operation for the crew of the ‘Mai Tai’ sailboat. The remains of the boat and one person were found

The government has said it plans to move migrants from overcrowded refugee facilities in the Canary Islands to Madrid. The Ministry of Defence will provide accommodation in the Carabanchel district and Alcalá de Henares, with the camps expected to be

Tributes have been paid after an 18-year-old British man died after falling from a hotel balcony in Lanzarote. Emergency services were alerted to the incident which took place in Costa Teguise in the early hours of Tuesday morning. The teenager

Over one thousand irregular migrants have arrived in the Canary Islands in a twenty-four hour period over the weekend, with the majority arriving on the island of El Hierro. A record-breaking ‘cayuco’ carrying three hundred and twenty people landed on

The regional government in the Canary Islands has ordered the temporary closures of schools due to unusually high temperatures, reaching up to thirty-five degrees Celsius. Meteorological agency Aemet issued a series of yellow weather warnings for the coming days due

Over five hundred and thirty-five migrants have arrived on the Canary Islands, including Lanzarote, El Hierro, and Fuerteventura, with over three hundred arriving on Saturday. Canarian President – Fernando Clavijo – expressed his concern about the sheer volume of people

Around three thousand people have been evacuated from their homes after the wildfire on the island of Tenerife reactivated. The fire, which started on the fifteenth of August, flared back into life due to intense heat, wind, and low humidity,

Jet2 has warned travellers of possible delays after a transport strike was announced in the Canary Islands throughout October. Tourist services in popular areas like Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, and Fuerteventura are likely to face disruption, with the holiday operator advising

Coast guards in Lanzarote are searching for a number of people after a boat carrying fifty migrants sank around 78 kilometers off the coast of the Canary Island. 41 people were pulled out of the water by a Moroccan fishing

Over fourteen thousand migrants have arrived in the Canary Islands this year according to data published this week, with twenty percent of them arriving in September alone. Recent rescues have taken place in Lanzarote, El Hierro, and Tenerife, with individuals