Los Alcázares Town Council has reassured residents after parts of the Mar Menor turned bright green on Monday, 24 August. Images of the unusual colour spread across social media, prompting concern about whether the lagoon had been polluted. The council has said the colour was caused by a natural, harmless dye used during filtration tests on the local sewerage system. The tests are being carried out by Pronorte as part of ongoing sewerage works in Los Alcázares, and some of […]

San Javier’s 56th International Theatre, Music and Dance Festival has closed with around 25,000 spectators, making it the most popular edition of the past decade. Attendance and box-office takings both rose by almost 10 per cent, while the event recorded a record number of subscribers, with more than 300. The programme featured 20 productions across 19 consecutive days. Five key performances sold out: Japanese percussion group Yamato’s ‘Hinotori, the Phoenix’, Luz Casal’s concert, Els Joglars’ ‘The Retable of Marvels’, ‘The […]

Spain’s Guardia Civil has arrested two German fugitives wanted by authorities in Germany over their alleged involvement in an international drug trafficking network. One man was arrested in Tenerife on 28 January, while the other was later detained at a property in Cartagena. The Guardia Civil began investigating in June 2025, after Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office, known as the BKA, asked for help locating the suspects. The men had fled to Spain as pressure mounted on the organisation, which […]

Los Montesinos Council is to install two automatic red-light cameras on Avenida del Mar, the main road through the town centre. The equipment will be positioned near the junction with Calle Carlos Díez and will monitor traffic travelling in both directions at the same set of lights. The system will read number plates, take photographs and may record video when it detects a vehicle crossing the stop line while the lights are red. Local Police officers will review the evidence […]

The Confederation of Independent Trade Unions, known as CSIF, called on Monday for a fire station to be created in La Manga. The union says this would improve emergency response times in an area that attracts hundreds of thousands of people during the summer months. Martín Toledo, CSIF’s fire service representative and a staff representative for Cartagena City Council, said the current distribution of resources makes it more difficult to respond quickly to some parts of La Manga. Cartagena’s fire […]

The tourism boom in the Region of Murcia this summer has been reflected strongly in the sector’s employment figures. The region has recorded 1,664 more tourism workers than at the same point last year. The increase follows a summer with record figures for visitors and revenue across hotels, apartments, campsites, rural houses, restaurants, bars, travel operators and other tourism-related businesses. The figures are also affected by the sector’s clearly seasonal nature.

Torrevieja Local Police have seized 155 products suspected of being counterfeit after stopping a vehicle for failing to obey a STOP sign on Sunday afternoon. The traffic offence led officers to inspect the car, where they found four bags containing sports clothing and footwear. The haul included 54 pairs of trainers and 101 sports kits bearing Nike and Adidas branding. Police said the driver was known to officers for allegedly carrying out unauthorised street sales in the Paseo Marítimo area. […]

Plans to dual the N-332 bypass through Torrevieja are not expected to begin soon, despite the road carrying up to 55,000 vehicles a day during the busiest periods in July and August. The delays have also affected major approaches to the town, particularly the CV-95 and CV-905, where queues form at junctions with the N-332. Road professionals working in the area have informally proposed creating a temporary third lane in whichever direction has the heavier traffic. The Guardia Civil and […]

Torrevieja Town Council has demanded an immediate, permanent and sufficient increase in state security staff after official figures showed that recorded criminal offences rose from 9,316 in 2024 to 10,089 in 2025. The 8.3% increase is the highest total recorded in the city. The council has highlighted 87 offences against sexual freedom, including 26 sexual assaults involving penetration, which represented a 44.4% increase. It has also reported 1,022 cybercrimes, including 895 cases of online fraud. Mayor Eduardo Dolón said Torrevieja’s […]