Yaiza Ayuntamiento has granted a licence for the construction of a LIDL supermarket in Playa Blanca.

Spain’s Meteorological Agency (AEMET) have issued two weather warnings for Lanzarote today.

Dead puffins that have been washed ashore in the Canaries are not the victims of bird flu, according to scientists at the University of Las Palmas.

Five pateras (boats) have arrived at Lanzarote in the last 48 hours, carrying a total of 248 migrants.

The President of Lanzarote's Cabildo, María Dolores Corujo, has defended recent statements she made at the FITUR travel fair, in which she claimed that Lanzarote was “saturated” with tourists.

Lanzarote ticked all the weather boxes yesterday, recording instances of rain, hail and some small tornadoes.

Last night, the emergency services were called to a vehicle collision in Guime between two cars.

After several years of closure due to the risk of landslides, the Cabildo yesterday reopened the LZ-207 road from Haría to Arrieta, which passes through the lovely little village of Tabayesco.

A walker found three packages containing 5 kilogrammes of cannabis while walking in Tinajo yesterday.

Yesterday the British press once again misrepresented Lanzarote, when the Daily Express published an article with the misleading headline “Spanish hotspot Lanzarote to limit British tourists as island bosses say it's 'saturated’”. The Mail Online reported “Lanzarote says it is fed up with having so many British tourists visiting the island – and wants FEWER UK tourists.”.

The emergency services were called to an incident involving a 75-year-old man at the Salinas de Janubio yesterday afternoon.

Watersports associations gathered at Arrecife's Sailing Club yesterday to express their total opposition to the planned fish farms off the coast of Arrecife, Playa Honda and Matagorda.

Lanzarote's Cabildo has announced that four reports have supported the listing of the Hotel Oriental building, opposite Hiperdino on Arrecife's main shopping street Calle Real, as an asset of cultural interest.

Desertwatch are offering free excursions into Lanzarote's El Jable region until the end of May.