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Bridge collapses in Tenerife leaving hundreds without electricity or water
Bridge collapses in Tenerife leaving hundreds without electricity or water

Heavy rainfall and structural instability have contributed to the collapse, which caused damage to services supply…

Grand Callao Sport: Over 200 squatters, a vandalised hotel, and owners can do nothing
Grand Callao Sport: Over 200 squatters, a vandalised hotel, and owners can do nothing

They say it is organised crime and that ringleaders demanded a large sum of money to ‘give’ the hotel back to them…

Drama in Tenerife: Boulder smashes car and injures woman after landslide
Drama in Tenerife: Boulder smashes car and injures woman after landslide

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Man found dead in a main square of Tenerife
Man found dead in a main square of Tenerife

The body, believed to be that of a man around 60 years of age, was discovered near the central bandstand…

Storm Olivier coats Mount Teide in snow creating a Winter Wonderland in Tenerife
Storm Olivier coats Mount Teide in snow creating a Winter Wonderland in Tenerife

The highest peak in Spain, usually bathed in sunlight, is now glistening under a pristine white blanket visible from the beaches below…

Police stop street sellers of fake designer goods in Los Cristianos and Playa de las Americas
Police stop street sellers of fake designer goods in Los Cristianos and Playa de las Americas

They have targeted strategic locations where a high concentration of illicit commercial activity has been previously detected…

Santa Cruz is transformed into Zurich for Johnny Depp and Penélope Cruz film shoot
Santa Cruz is transformed into Zurich for Johnny Depp and Penélope Cruz film shoot

Following shoots in various locations across the island, the production of Day Drinker has now arrived in the city centre…

DGT installing 10 new speed cameras across the Canary Islands:
DGT installing 10 new speed cameras across the Canary Islands:

Here are the locations and details of all of them…

Canary Islands to reduce class sizes in major education reform
Canary Islands to reduce class sizes in major education reform

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Body of missing woman found off southern Tenerife coast
Body of missing woman found off southern Tenerife coast

Maritime Rescue recovered the body and took it to the port of Los Cristianos...

Johnny Depp and Penélope Cruz reunite in Tenerife for the filming of Day Drinker
Johnny Depp and Penélope Cruz reunite in Tenerife for the filming of Day Drinker

Depp has been spotted on set in Los Realejos in the north of the island…

Canary Islands Government issues weather alert as Storm Olivier approaches
Canary Islands Government issues weather alert as Storm Olivier approaches

After AEMET announced weather warnings on Monday, the government have now issued an official alert…

Airlines accused of blocking Canary Islands Resident Discounts during peak travel periods
Airlines accused of blocking Canary Islands Resident Discounts during peak travel periods

Passengers have reported that when they tried to apply the discount while booking flights, previously visible options vanished…

Canary Islands to request EU permission to limit property purchases to non-residents
Canary Islands to request EU permission to limit property purchases to non-residents

The request will be presented this week by the Canaries president during a high-level conference between the EU's outermost regions…

Rising sickness absence in the Canary Islands: A growing concern for employers
Rising sickness absence in the Canary Islands: A growing concern for employers

There were 437,000 sickness related absenteeism’s last year in the islands…

Two arrested for €25,000 theft at hotel occupied by squatters in Callao Salvaje
Two arrested for €25,000 theft at hotel occupied by squatters in Callao Salvaje

They were caught stealing tables, chairs, sun loungers, and industrial kitchen appliances, including refrigerators and ovens from the hotel…

13 arrested in Tenerife for using fake documents to get on flights to the UK and Ireland
13 arrested in Tenerife for using fake documents to get on flights to the UK and Ireland

They were all stopped at Tenerife South Airport trying to get to the UK before the new ETA system comes into effect on 2nd April...

Adeje prepares for a Holy Week marked by the Jubilee of Hope
Adeje prepares for a Holy Week marked by the Jubilee of Hope

Easter, known as ‘Semana Santa’ in Spain, is the biggest cultural celebration of the year…

10 years in prison for man caught smuggling cocaine on tourist boat in south Tenerife
10 years in prison for man caught smuggling cocaine on tourist boat in south Tenerife

He used a whales and dolphins excursion boat from Puerto Colon to transport the drugs…

Residents of Masca raise alarm over safety and overcrowding amid surge in tourism
Residents of Masca raise alarm over safety and overcrowding amid surge in tourism

Residents are saying: “Everything is being designed with tourists in mind, but when will someone think about us?”