Lanzarote will see some showers over this weekend. Get the umbrellas out!

The Font Vella International Marathon has already started and will fill Lanzarote's seafront promenades from Costa Teguise to Martagorda with athletes.

Last month, we took a guided tour of Bodegas Stratvs, the stunning winery that has raised the bar for quality on Lanzarote.

Last night the local fire service in Tías were called to an incident involving a bus Puerto del Carmen.

A hang glider was rescued after an accident in Famara yesterday afternoon.

Here are some of the main Christmas events that are taking place on the island this year.

The LZ-10 road from Tahiche to Nazaret will be closed from today while works are carried out to tarmac the new roundabout in Nazaret.

Permission has been granted for the Rally Isla de los Volcanes to go ahead from the 1st to the 3rd of December.

Lanzarote is the Canary Island on which demand for electricity has increased the most this year, according to recent figures.

Rain is forecast from this evening on Lanzarote, as wetter weather arrives on all the the Canaries over the next few days.

Lanzarote's Tourist Federation has criticised a conservation plan as “too prohibitive” and claimed that it will have an adverse effect on tourist activities.

The Cabildo yesterday confirmed that it would be sending a crane-boat to the Atlantic Museum to remove another two statues “in the next days or weeks”. The statues are depictions of the lawyer Ignacio Calatayud, which could not be identified on Saturday night when the first two statues were removed.

In the early hours of this morning, firefighters were called to a vehicle fire on the LZ-2.

The Tinajo Ayuntamiento have just released the full events programme for December this year. Check out the upcoming events: