In a week when demonstrations against mass tourism have been announced on five islands, Lanzarote's Cabildo has approved the construction of a 624-place hotel in Playa Blanca.

Who say’s the fun stops after the sun goes down? Experience a unique neon course after dark at Crazy Minigolf Lanzarote in Puerto del Carmen – the only 18-hole minigolf course on the island.

Nine minors have been arrested for setting fire to a large number of sun loungers on Playa Cucharas in Costa Teguise in March this year.

The National Police have arrested a 44-year-old Austrian man in Arrecife who had an international arrest warrant for drug trafficking crimes.

A video posted to social media this week shows a vehicle driving on the footpath at Volcán del Cuervo.

A woman in her 40s has tragically died after falling from the fourth floor of a building on Calle Fajardo in Arrecife yesterday afternoon.

Arrecife's second annual Feria de Abril (April Fair) will take place this weekend in Arrecife.

The Canarian Government yesterday presented the draft of its new Law on Holiday Rentals, which will devolve the regulation of this sector to local councils and establish a 10% limit of holiday rental premises on the main tourist islands.

Cabildo President, Oswaldo Betancort, has travelled to New York this week with a number of meetings set up to organise a major campaign in America to promote Lanzarote as a tourist destination.

Puerto del Carmen is preparing for its first ever night race this month, which will see participants take on a course along the Avenida de las Playas from the Plaza de las Naciones to Matagorda.

Haría Ayuntamiento have denounced a case of animal abuse that came to their attention last Wednesday when municipal cleaners found a cat that had been left inside of a rubbish container.

The Mararía women's association has moved from its cramped old offices on C/ Fajardo to new premises that are more spacious and better-suited to the requirements of privacy and discretion that its work requires.

Lanzarote's Cabildo will not construct carparks in Uga and Mancha Blanca to relieve the pressure on Timanfaya, where large queues continue to be a problem.

Lanzarote's Cabildo has voted against declaring the island a “residential market zone of tension”, under the Spanish Government's housing law. Such a declaration would have given the island powers to introduce policies such as rent controls.