Los Montesinos Council is finalising the tender documents for a new door-to-door waste collection service, which will also include street cleaning and sweeping. It will be the largest service contract in the town’s history, covering a population of around five thousand eight hundred people and running for ten years. The contract has an estimated value of five point three eight million euros, including VAT, which works out at just over five hundred and thirty-eight thousand euros a year. The price […]

The Guardia Civil in Spain’s Region of Murcia has investigated two residents of Torre Pacheco as suspected perpetrators of an animal cruelty offence after a dog was found badly injured in a rubbish container near its owner’s home. The investigation began when the owner reported finding his small mixed-breed dog inside the bin. The animal was injured and was taken to a veterinary centre, where it was admitted in a serious condition with a suspected cervical fracture. Officers from the […]

Spain’s State Meteorological Agency has activated yellow weather warnings for parts of the Comunitat Valenciana as strong westerly winds move in on Thursday. The conditions are linked to Storm Leonardo, which is expected to have its greatest impact during the middle of the day. Forecasters say gusts could reach up to 80 kilometres per hour in Valencia province, inland areas of Alicante and southern inland Castellón, with warnings in place between 10 am and 6 pm. The westerly flow will […]

Almoradí has reached a population of 23,430 residents, an increase of 482 people compared with the previous year, according to official figures from the council’s Census and Statistics department. The data, recorded as of 31 December and submitted to Spain’s National Statistics Institute, point to a stable, balanced, and sustainable demographic trend. The population remains almost evenly split by gender, with 11,769 men and 11,661 women. Of the total number of residents, 17,296 are Spanish nationals. The largest foreign communities […]

Pilar de la Horadada Council has raised serious concerns about ongoing problems at the Dolores waste transfer plant, which it says have been affecting rubbish collection since before the summer. According to the council, delays in unloading and sorting have led to drivers working shifts of more than twelve hours, with some lorries returning to Pilar de la Horadada without unloading their waste. The council says average waiting times at the plant have increased from about twenty minutes to as […]

Water reserves in Spain’s Segura river basin have climbed above thirty per cent of capacity for the first time in three years, following a series of Atlantic storms during December two thousand and twenty-five and January. The heaviest rainfall and snowfall fell in the headwaters, including the Alcaraz, Cazorla and Segura ranges. Reservoir storage has risen by forty-six hectometres in the past week alone, bringing the total to three hundred and fifty-four cubic hectometres. This represents around thirty-one per cent […]

There has been movement from public institutions over the ongoing lack of heating at CEIP Playas de Orihuela, where the school has been without a gas supply for more than four months. The heating system has been inoperative since 2024, a situation families say has directly affected the health and wellbeing of both pupils and teaching staff. The Association of Families of Pupils says daily protests began a week ago to highlight what they describe as a serious situation, with […]

San Javier Council has put out to tender a contract worth just over €160,000 to protect its municipal palm trees from the red palm weevil, one of the most serious threats to ornamental palms in south eastern Spain. The programme will cover palm trees in parks, gardens, natural areas and along roadsides throughout the municipality. The contract includes preventive, palliative and curative treatments for a wide range of species, including Phoenix, Washingtonia, Livistona and Trachycarpus palms. A key method will […]

Plans by the multinational company Clarios to build a solar self-consumption plant for its battery factory in Guardamar del Segura will now undergo a full environmental impact assessment. The Valencian regional government has ruled that the project could have significant effects on the environment, mainly due to the high flood risk affecting the proposed site. The plant, promoted by Ekhi Energy fourteen, would cover almost ten hectares of traditional farmland near the N three three two road. It is designed […]