With a long bank holiday followed by the even longer Christmas break, Spanish authorities are preparing for a December that could potentially undo much of the progress the country has made in recent weeks.

At least six people have died and one remains missing after a boat carrying migrants capsized off the rocky coast of Órzola last night.

Spain's meteorological agency AEMET has placed a yellow warning for rain on Lanzarote for tomorrow afternoon, Wednesday 25th November, from 3pm to 9pm.

This week, Lanzarote hosts the international conference on plastic waste, MICRO 2020, for the third year running. For obvious reasons, this year's conference is now being conducted virtually from “Lanzarote and beyond” , and will feature contributions from scientists and researchers from five continents.

Las Palmeras is the oldest and largest Golf Society in Lanzarote, writes Jean-François Crinquand.

From today, the new Spanish law demanding negative PCR test results from all visitors to Spain comes into effect. An area at Lanzarote's airport had already been set up to check the certificates.

A day after Spanish President Pedro Sánchez announced a mass vaccination programme commencing in the New Year, Salvador Illa, the health minister, confirmed that vaccination would not be compulsory

The Spanish government’s weak response to the problem of migrants on the Canaries has soured relations between Madrid and the regional government led by the same Socialist party. Yesterday, Canarian President Ángel Victor Torres warn that the Canaries would “rebel” if the central government left the Canaries with 100% responsibility for the accommodation of migrants.

There are eight Canary islands, and all of them are different. Some are popular international tourist destinations, others are quieter and more traditional, and one of them doesn’t even have any roads. So which is the best for driving? Here are our results in reverse order…

Yesterday, the European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC) reclassified the Canary Islands, taking them out of the red “at-risk” zone and placing them in the orange zone.

UD Lanzarote will begin their 50th Anniversary season after only being permitted to play two pre-season friendlies as well as being forbidden to train all together as a group. Ian Lane reports… First published in Gazette Life, November…

In a year that’s seen an almost complete paralysis of Lanzarote’s cultural life, the news that Yaiza’s nativity scene will return in December is a welcome sign of normality.

No one in Spain should pay more than 72 cents for a basic surgical face mask, after the Spanish government introduced a law setting a maximum price for these items on Monday.

Recent laws passed by the Spanish and Canarian governments have introduced compulsory testing into both territories for the first time, but the elevated cost of PCR tests has caused many to call for the inclusion of cheap, rapid antigen tests in the law.