Recycling collection strike drags on with no deal in sight
More than a week of indefinite strike in Lanzarote's recycling collection, with 80% minimum services, and staff have just rejected Urbaser's latest offer.
Daily edition
Saturday 24 October 2026
Rubbish, water, power and housing, the services still struggling on the island, are exactly what every party will promise to fix between now and the 29 November election.
Saturday 24 October 2026
Applications open for 42 public rental homes in Playa Blanca
The Canary Islands Housing Institute has opened applications for the Montaña Roja flats, with strict residency requirements in the Canaries and in Yaiza.
General election warm-up kicks off on the island, with migration centre stage
Coalición Canaria and its nationalist partners packed out Argana Baja to present their general election bid, and Clavijo hit out at Madrid over the rise in boat arrivals.
Madrid makes the Tías–Playa Blanca power line a priority
The Ministry for the Ecological Transition has put the southern line among its priority grid projects up to 2030.
Water battle: the island's Water Consortium wins another round against Canal
A court has rejected both interim measures that Canal de Isabel II requested against Lanzarote's Water Consortium.
Record September for the island's tourism takings
Tourist accommodation earned almost €91 million, the best September on record according to the Cabildo's Data Centre.
Arrecife becomes the first Canary municipality with a flood plan
The capital now has an approved flood risk action plan, the first in the Canary Islands.
Busy Sunday: clocks go back, resurfacing on the Vía Medular and dust haze
The clocks go back tonight, and tomorrow work starts on resurfacing one of the capital's busiest roads.
The Canaries will get a say in running their airports, including César Manrique
The central and regional governments will set up a joint body to oversee the management of the islands' eight airports.
Weekend scares: CPR at La Garita, a rescue at Playa Quemada and a crash in Playa Blanca
Three emergency call-outs between Friday and Saturday, none with a known tragic outcome.
Seasonal lets now need a 31-day minimum, and listings are already being pulled
Spain's Consumer Affairs ministry has asked two platforms to remove more than 8,300 listings that passed off tourist flats as seasonal rentals.
Canary firms, with Lanzarote's Chamber of Commerce, hunt for EU funding in Brussels
The second business mission of Enterprise Europe Network Canarias tripled its applications and held more than a hundred meetings.
Hotel bosses look for ways to keep staff as hospitality training declines
More than 200 professionals at the fourth Canarias es Talento meeting, organised by Asolan with the Lanzarote Tourism Federation.
Consume Lanzarote: €60 vouchers for just €30 at local shops
The Cabildo is putting up half a million euros to generate up to a million in spending at island shops. Dates have not been announced yet.
E-invoicing and Verifactu: the timetable for your business
Mandatory e-invoicing between businesses now has fixed dates, and the Ministry of Finance has announced another Verifactu delay that has not yet been approved.
If your business uses Fortinet, update now
INCIBE-CERT has given its highest severity rating to a batch of Fortinet patches for FortiOS, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, FortiMail and FortiAuthenticator.
Critical PHP flaws force Canary public websites to lock down
Spain's CCN-CERT warns of PHP vulnerabilities that allow remote code execution, and several island institutions have restricted services as a precaution.