A woman has been injured after being hit by a car while carrying a baby in Torre Pacheco on Thursday afternoon. Emergency services in the Region of Murcia said they received several calls reporting the incident. The regional 112 Coordination Centre dispatched assistance to the scene shortly afterwards. An off-duty nurse who was nearby provided first aid to the injured woman until paramedics arrived. Other witnesses stepped in to look after the baby. Both the mother and the child were […]

Emergency services treated an 18-year-old woman on Thursday evening after she showed symptoms of drowning at La Mata beach in Torrevieja. The Centre for Information and Emergency Coordination (CICU) said the alert was received at 18:45 and a SAMU unit attended the scene. The young woman was stabilised on the beach before being transferred to Torrevieja Hospital for further treatment. The incident has prompted renewed safety concerns from a regular surfer in the area. Ramón claims that rescues are frequently […]

Benidorm has maintained high hotel occupancy levels in May, confirming its position as the leading holiday destination in the Valencian Community. According to figures released by Hosbec on Thursday, average occupancy reached 86.2%, matching the exceptional performance of 2025. In the second half of the month, occupancy rose to 89.3%, 2.5 points higher than the same period last year. The British market remains the backbone of Benidorm’s tourism sector. UK visitors accounted for 47.3% of stays in the second half […]

Cartagena City Council has launched its new electric bike hire service, bringing one hundred and twenty bikes into operation across the municipality. The scheme was officially inaugurated on Wednesday, when Mayor Noelia Arroyo, Port Authority president Pedro Pablo Hernández and Sustainable City councillor Cristina Mora arrived at the launch event on the new bikes. The ceremony marked the return of the public hire system after more than six years without the service. The council has confirmed that the current fleet […]

An 89-year-old man has died after a wrong-way collision on the AP-7 motorway near Orihuela Costa in Alicante province. The crash happened at around 5.10am on Wednesday at kilometre 763 of the motorway, according to the Traffic Management Centre. The Civil Guard said the incident involved a front-side collision between a van and a car. The van driver, who was travelling in the opposite direction, died at the scene. The driver of the car suffered minor injuries. In a separate […]

Guardia Civil, Local Police, the regional police unit attached to the National Police and officials from the Valencian Government have carried out a joint inspection at the three-star Hotel Sole Bello in La Mata, Torrevieja. The visit followed weeks of complaints from neighbours who say the partly occupied building has been associated with theft, snatch robberies and alleged drug dealing. Officers inspected rooms and several communal areas, including the pool area and other shared spaces, which were reportedly being used […]

Orihuela City Council has approved a tender worth €80,520 for the collection, removal and transport of posidonia oceanica from beaches in Orihuela Costa. The service will operate from Easter until 15 October, covering eleven beaches and coves, including Punta Prima, Cala Capitán and Mil Palmeras. The final cost will depend on the scale of storm activity, which causes the natural accumulation of sea grass on the shore. The contract allows for modifications of up to 20% of the initial price, […]

A swimmer has been taken to hospital after being rescued by surfers at La Mata beach in Torrevieja. The incident happened at around 7pm on Wednesday, when strong easterly winds caused heavy waves at the southern end of the beach, an area popular with surfers. The surfers noticed a tourist struggling to make progress in the water and calling for help. They brought the swimmer back to shore, where advanced life support medics, dispatched by the Valencian Emergency Coordination Centre, […]

Orihuela is heading into another busy summer season without granting eight new taxi licences that have been pending since 2015. The process to award them began a year ago but remains unresolved. The town continues to operate with 42 licences, the same number as in 2005, despite its population rising to 88,000. Around 30,000 residents live on the coast, where numbers can reach an estimated 100,000 in summer due to tourism and second homes. Spanish law recommends one taxi per […]