Planning a move to Lanzarote and need to ship your belongings? KPM Services has the next seafreight container loading on Wednesday 5th August (sailing on the 10th, arriving in Lanzarote on the 22nd.) Please note, goods need to be at the warehouse the day before, to make this departure, with collections available anywhere in the UK.

A Jet2 flight from Glasgow to Lanzarote was forced to make an unscheduled stop in Portugal on July 16 after a passenger suffered a medical emergency during the journey.

Tías Local Police removed another 71 electric scooters from the streets last week, most of them in Puerto del Carmen. The scooters will be impounded in the municipal deposit.

Goats on Lanzarote and the Canaries are genetically identical to the livestock kept by the aboriginal inhabitants of the islands; a study has found.

Masdache and Conil are celebrating the fiestas of Mary Magdalene and the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

A traditional Diablete costume will soon be displayed at The Alamo Museum in San Antonio, Texas, highlighting the island's rich cultural heritage and its historic links with the Canary Islands.

A new personalised core training programme from Bodykinetik combines targeted abdominal strengthening with stretching and massage to support posture, movement and everyday wellbeing.

Lanzarote celebrated well into the early hours after the final whistle blew at 11.02 pm last night, confirming that Spain had won the FIFA World Cup for the second time in history.

A woman was evacuated from Papagayo on a jet ski yesterday after suffering a fall.

The Canarian Government has issued a pre-alert for rough seas, with waves of up to four metres possible.

A walk of little more than an hour across Islote del Mojón is enough for biologist Rosa Betancort to count around 80 butterflies. This small island of ancient terrain, surrounded by lava flows in Timanfaya National Park, provides an important refuge where native plants offer food and breeding sites for these vital pollinators.

The Guardia Civil has dismantled a criminal network accused of defrauding a Lanzarote holiday rental company out of around €20,000 through a sophisticated booking scam involving stolen credit cards.

Hotels and holiday accommodation providers across the Canary Islands are preparing for a quieter summer than in the past two years, according to the latest survey by the Canary Islands Institute of Statistics (ISTAC).

Teguise Ayuntamiento has begun the contracting process for this year's Christmas Market, which will take place from 3rd to 8th December in part of the municipality's historic centre.