A runway at Gando airport was blocked for an hour and a half yesterday after a Binter Canarias flight from Gran Canaria to Fuerteventura had to be aborted as it was about to take off due to overheating brakes.

According to air traffic controllers (ATC) via their official X (Twitter) account, the aircraft requested help from firefighters from the Gando terminal, forcing airlines and ATC to work for over an hour and a half with only one runway.

The controllers explained in their tweet that t

The Ministry of Infrastructure, Roads, Planning and Municipal Cooperation of the Island Council directed by Blas Acosta, reports that a solution has been given to the lighting of the Tequital roundabout by installing 4 80W photovoltaic luminaires installed on 8-meter-high poles, thus solving the safety problem of this point of the FV-2 road.

The lighting of roundabouts at night is important, especially in some points, such as Tequital, due to the high average daily intensity of vehicles on th

The PSOE wins the European elections in Fuerteventura by less than 200 votes.
The PP practically equals the Socialists, CC plummets by 12% and Vox is the fourth force



The PSOE has won by the minimum in the European elections this Sunday in Fuerteventura, on a day marked by high abstention: only 31 out of every 100 who had the right to do so have voted.

The Socialists have obtained 6,705 votes, with one hundred percent counted, which represented 28.3 percent, somewhat lower than the pe

The Ministry of Public Works and Housing for the Canary Islands Government has launched a new rental assistance program for the 2024-2025 period, with a budget allocation of 16,325,088 euros. This initiative aims to support anyone with limited financial resources across the islands, and young people seeking housing in smaller municipalities.

The program, financed by both the State and the Regional Government offers two main lines of subsidies:

- For people with limited financial resources.

Man saved by member of the public after having heart attack on a beach in Corralejo

A 69-year-old man is in critical condition after suffering a cardiac arrest last night (Sunday) at approximately 7:25 pm, on a beach in Corralejo, Fuerteventura.

The Emergency Services Coordination Centre (CECOES) received multiple alerts about a man who appeared to be unconscious near the shoreline, and needed urgent medical assistance.

Responding swiftly, coordinators from the Canary Islands Emergency

The seven tourism employers' associations warn that the key is not to collect more but to better manage public funds


"The ecotax proposed by the Socialist Party is not a solution for the Canary Islands", is how clear the tourist employers of the islands are. In fact, the Association of Tourism Entrepreneurs of Fuerteventura (Asofuer); the Lanzarote Tourism Federation (FTL); the Federation of Hospitality and Tourism Entrepreneurs of Las Palmas (FEHT); and the Hotel and Extra-hotel Associatio

Spain is planning to impose a tax of up to 100% on the value of properties bought by non-residents from countries outside the EU, such as the UK.

Announcing the move, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said the "unprecedented" measure was necessary to meet the country's housing emergency.

"The West faces a decisive challenge: To not become a society divided into two classes, the rich landlords and poor tenants," he said.

Non-EU residents bought 27,000 properties in Spain in 2023, he told an

On the morning of this Saturday, May 24, two relevant interventions were recorded in the town of Corralejo, in the municipality of La Oliva (Fuerteventura), which required the action of the Local Police and other emergency services, and which resulted in two people being arrested.

The first incident took place at 07:15 am, when 112 alerted of a fight between several young people on the central Avenida Nuestra Señora del Carmen. The event left one injured with a reserved prognosis for assault

The Civil Guard and the Tax Agency have arrested a 28-year-old man when he arrived in Gran Canaria on a boat from Fuerteventura with a vehicle in which he hid 32.25 kilos of hashish in the doors and under the hood, for which a judge has ordered his provisional detention.

The accused of an alleged crime against public health in the form of drug trafficking was surprised after disembarking in the port of La Luz by Civil Guard agents who were carrying out routine inspection work, who stopped the

The number of homes sold in the Canary Islands has dropped sharply, with sales in April down by more than 19% compared to the same month last year, official figures show.

The latest data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE) recorded 1,967 property transactions in the archipelago during the month. Nationally, home sales rose by just over 2% during the same period. Compared to March, sales in the Canary Islands also fell by 13%.

The drop comes amid growing concerns over housing af