Emergency services are investigating a shooting incident that took place in Los Alcázares during the early hours of Tuesday morning. Two armed men reportedly fired a shotgun at an old house, believed to be operating as a venue for drug activities. Fortunately, nobody was injured in the incident, despite the severity of the attack. Local police were patrolling nearby when the shots rang out. Upon reaching the scene, they observed […]

Most beach bar owners in Cartagena agree they will not be ready for Holy Week, which starts this Friday, April eleventh. The delays in issuing new contracts mean that holidaymakers will have to go without drinks, snacks, and even bathrooms at the beach. Despite the council's assurances, contracts have not been signed off in time for the bars to set up before Easter. The Department of Coastal Affairs attributes the […]

The City Council of Cartagena has announced that weekly markets will be permitted to operate on all major public holidays in twenty twenty-five. This decision responds to requests made by both individual vendors and the Association of Sellers of Squares and Markets of Cartagena. In Spain, it is often customary for street markets to be cancelled on public holidays, but Cartagena has opted to allow these markets to continue as […]

In Torrevieja, the Citizen Security Unit, known as USECIC, has made significant drug trafficking arrests over two days, detaining seven individuals in total. The first operation occurred on the twenty-third of March, when officers stopped a car driving the wrong way on a central street. Upon inspecting the vehicle, they discovered one kilogram of ketamine hidden in a backpack and eight grams of pink cocaine in the glove compartment, along […]

A British-run guesthouse in the village of La Manchica has been exposed as an unlicensed nursing home, leading to the hospitalisation of an eighty-four-year-old English woman in critical condition. The woman, identified only as A.S., was admitted to Santa María del Rosell Hospital in Cartagena suffering from severe dehydration, kidney failure, and multiple infected wounds. Emergency services discovered A.S. in a filthy room at the farmhouse, owned by British couple […]