Activists oppose hotel planned for Almeria natural park
The Partido Popular-led right-wing regional government of Andalucía is on the verge of approving construction of a four-star hotel with 33 rooms,…
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Regions shelter homeless during coronavirus lockdown
Regional and local governments across Spain are rushing to get homeless people off the streets and into shelters to minimize the spread…
Anticaps say ‘hasta luego’ to Podemos in Andalucía
After months of tension between the leadership of Podemos’ regional Andalucía affiliate and the party’s national leadership in Madrid, the two announced…
Endesa set to build largest solar operation in Andalucía
The green power subsidiary of Spanish energy giant Endesa has been granted a license to build a new photovoltaic solar power plant…
Protest decries ongoing healthcare decline in Andalucía
Some 20,000 protesters marched through Sevilla on Sunday, converging on the Plaza de España to rally against inaction in resolving bottlenecks and…
Andalucía Socialist ex-presidents convicted in ERE case
A court in southern Spain has found a group of former senior leaders of members of the Andalucía affiliate of Spain’s Socialist…
Court action threatened over removal of Quiepo remains
An umbrella organization representing groups focused on the historical memory of events occurring in Andalucia during Spain’s civil war say they will…
Gov’t agencies join trend to generate own solar energy
Spain’s self-generated solar energy movement appears to be booming just one year after the Socialist government of President Pedro Sánchez scrapped the…
Irreverent feminists acquitted of hate-crime charges
► Judge acquits women women accused of crime against religious sentiment ► Court says ‘coño insumiso’ procession legitimate, not incitement to hatred…
Iberdrola paid bent cop to spy on judge, opponents
► Energy giant paid ex-policeman Villarejo to infiltrate opponents, spy on judge ► Ex-cop in jail without bail for criminal organization, bribery,…
Second Podemos co-founder joins new Más País party
► Carolina Bescansa joins Errejón’s ‘Más País’, will lead candidates in La Coruña ► Ex-Podemos women legislators to lead ‘Más País’ lists…
PACMA bullfight protest in Sevilla in run-up to elections
Spain’s animal-rights party, PACMA (Partido Animalista Contra el Maltrato Animal, or ‘Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals’), has called its annual protest…
Podemos’ poor Andalucía showing widens rifts in party
While the poor showing of the governing Socialist party (PSOE) was a focus of Spanish and international news coverage of Sunday’s regional…
PSOE dealt blow in shock Andalucía election results
Low voter turnout overall in Spain’s southernmost region of Andalucía combined with a favorable response to anti-immigrant and nationalist campaign rhetoric in…
PSOE set to win vote, govern in coalition in Andalucía
With less than one week to go before crucial 2nd December elections in Spain’s southernmost region of Andalucía, voter preference polls are…
Migrant deaths continue as arrivals by sea skyrocket
Four migrants attempting to reach Spain died at the weekend and Spanish authorities are still searching for bodies of 13 others in…
PACMA to defend animal rights in Andalucía elections
Spain’s PACMA animal-rights party has announced its slate of candidates for 2nd December regional elections in Andalucía, saying the party is campaigning…
Andalucía gender-equality law debuts amid criticism
A long-awaited regional gender-equality law took effect in Andalucía on Tuesday amid criticism that it fails to resolve many issues surrounding inequality…
Gov’t says bomb sales to Saudis ‘on hold’, not cancelled
►► UPDATE 22/10/18: Spain not stopping arms sales to Saudi Arabia over Khashoggi killing ►► UPDATE 13/09/18: Gov’t now confirms that bombs…
Valencia receives 629 Aquarius migrants rescued at sea
Three ships bearing 629 migrants rescued at sea last week were welcomed at the port of Valencia at the weekend, delivering into…
Spanish electric motosharing service eyes U.S. market
Spain’s electric motorscooter sharing service Muving, currently operating in 11 cities nationwide, is following up an expansive first year of operation with…
Andalucia takes legal action to stop Doñana gas drilling
The regional government of Andalucia said Tuesday said it is filing legal action and requesting a court injunction to halt natural gas…
Ecologistas say water diversion plan threatens habitat
Environmentalists in Spain warn that following winter rains and snow that increased the capture of runoff in reservoirs in some areas of…
Online Islamophobia jumps sharply in 2017, says report
► Anti-Islamic incidents, including ‘fake news’ & harassment, up 111 percent ► Online dissemination of false news reports and harassment against Muslims…
300pct increase in migrants, refugees arriving by boat
► Andalucia surge as migrants reroute from Libya, Eastern Mediterranean ► The number of migrants and asylum seekers arriving by boat to…
PSOE urges more gov’t action against genital mutilation
► Nearly 19,000 girls of African origin residing in Spain currently at risk ► Spain’s Socialist party (PSOE) has called on the…
Andalucia’s new LGBTI law set for unanimous approval
► Law to protect LGBTI families from discrimination, provides for sanctions ► In its last legislative session of 2017, Andalucia’s regional Parliament…
NGOs urge more action on migrant, refugee relocation
► On Int’l Migrants Day, NGOs demand better conditions, attention to minors ► Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working with migrants and refugees have…
Use of prison to house migrants sparks controversy
• Vatican joins NGOS, political parties critical of use of new prison near Malaga • Gov’t says recent wave of ‘boat people’…
Activists laud jail term over pet shelter exterminations
• More than 2,000 healthy dogs, cats died agonizing deaths to cut costs • Jail sentence first of its kind under Spain’s…
Andalucia steps up efforts to identify Civil War victims
• 12,000 executed by firing squads believed buried in Sevilla, Cordoba & Huelva • Forensics teams to unearth mass graves across 17…