Firefighters from the Vega Sur station in Torrevieja have carried out a complex rescue in the Mil Palmeras development, on Orihuela Costa. The operation took place on Friday morning, after medical teams treated a patient who needed urgent evacuation.

Three dead tuna have washed ashore at separate locations in Torrevieja. Municipal services removed the fish from Cala del Palangre, the area around Los Locos beach and near Juan Aparicio promenade on Saturday, 22 August. The operation was coordinated by the council’s Beaches and Environment Department, the Acciona-Actúa joint venture responsible for the service, and the environmental unit of the Local Police. The fish had already died before they reached the shore, and the council said it would arrange their […]

A minor earthquake has been felt in Torrevieja during the early hours of Sunday. The tremor occurred at 2.17am, with its epicentre in the centre of Torrevieja lagoon, according to data from Spain’s National Geographic Institute and information shared by Proyecto Mastral. The earthquake had a magnitude of 1.3. Some residents in the area were able to feel it as a slight vibration or brief shake, but the event caused no injuries or material damage. The tremor forms part of […]

Police in Guardamar del Segura have recovered a woman’s lost handbag after tracking the location of a mobile phone inside it. The phone’s geolocation allowed officers to follow the belongings and gradually narrow the search area. The operation involved the Incident Patrol and the Tango Patrol, whose officers travelled by motorbike. The coordinated teams eventually found the phone and handbag inside a campsite. Police said the speed, coordination and persistence of the officers were key to recovering the belongings and […]

Torrevieja recorded 10,089 criminal offences in 2025, an increase of 8.3% compared with 2024, when 9,316 offences were registered. The figures from Spain’s Interior Ministry include 9,067 conventional crimes and 1,022 cybercrimes. The most serious offences included one completed homicide, four attempted homicides, 150 cases of assault and disorder, one kidnapping and 87 offences against sexual freedom. Of those, 26 were sexual assaults involving penetration. The largest categories were theft and fraud, including 2,953 thefts, 895 computer fraud offences, 655 […]

More than 2,000 people travelling aboard boats have been intercepted in the Region of Murcia through July, according to the Unified Association of Civil Guards, known as the AUGC. The figure is almost twice the number recorded during the same period in 2025. The latest incident happened on Wednesday at Cala del Barco, in Cartagena. Sixty-one migrants were aboard a large speedboat fitted with four outboard engines. The vessel was able to approach the coast at high speed, land its […]

Valencia’s infrastructure minister, Vicente Martínez Mus, and the Generalitat’s director general of coastal affairs, Marc Manzana, will meet residents of Babilonia beach in Guardamar on 27 August. The meeting will address a Constitutional Court order that has kept suspended the article of the Valencian Coastal Law used to protect the area from demolition. The article would allow groups of homes with special ethnological value to receive protection. The court has suspended it while it considers the Spanish Government’s challenge to […]

Pubs and similar venues in Orihuela and Torrevieja could face a maximum four-thirty closing time from 2027, under a proposed order from the Valencian Government’s Department of Emergencies and the Interior. The measure would apply to municipalities with more than 50,000 residents and is expected to take effect on 1 January 2027 if approved. The general hours for pubs, karaoke venues and similar establishments would remain midnight to 3.30am. However, councils would have to choose between a specific 30-minute extension, […]

Work on the expansion of the Virgen del Pilar state school in Los Montesinos is progressing, with the new spaces beginning to take shape. The mayor, José Manuel Butrón, and education councillor Rosa Belén Morán visited the site last week with the project team and representatives of the company carrying out the work. The project, funded through the regional Plan Edificant programme, represents an investment of nearly €3 million. It includes three new nursery classrooms and six primary classrooms, along […]