https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed For the last few years, the Canary Islands have been talking about limiting the number of foreign homebuyers in order to help solve their property crisis. Now politicians are debating who exactly should be the target of potential restrictions. https://www.thelocal.es/20260506/non-residents-or-foreigners-spains-canaries-debate-who-should-face-property-limits Wed, 06 May 2026 10:33:51 +0200 non-residents-or-foreigners-spains-canaries-debate-who-should-face-property-limits Spain will receive a cruise ship stricken by a deadly hantavirus outbreak in "three to four days", in the Canary Islands, the health ministry said late Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.es/20260506/spain-says-hantavirus-ship-due-in-the-canaries-soon Wed, 06 May 2026 08:26:18 +0200 spain-says-hantavirus-ship-due-in-the-canaries-soon A bus carrying British tourists veered off a highway down an embankment on Spain's Atlantic island of La Gomera on Friday, killing one Briton and injuring 27 people, including three children, authorities said. https://www.thelocal.es/20260410/british-tourist-bus-crash-in-spains-canaries-kills-one-and-injures-27 Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:05:23 +0200 british-tourist-bus-crash-in-spains-canaries-kills-one-and-injures-27 The Canary Islands' Tourism Minister who recently pushed through reforms to regulate tourist flats on the archipelago has received several threats and attacks to her property, including an AI-generated video in which she is seen being burnt alive. https://www.thelocal.es/20251205/tourism-minister-in-spain-gets-death-threats-amid-holiday-let-crackdown Fri, 05 Dec 2025 11:45:52 +0100 tourism-minister-in-spain-gets-death-threats-amid-holiday-let-crackdown Spain’s Minister of Housing and Urban Agenda has given her support to the Canary government's proposal of limiting the purchase of homes on the islands by non-resident foreigners. https://www.thelocal.es/20251128/spains-government-supports-limits-on-foreign-homebuyers-in-the-canaries Fri, 28 Nov 2025 16:49:29 +0100 spains-government-supports-limits-on-foreign-homebuyers-in-the-canaries Lanzarote is Spain's latest airport to roll out the new EES passport checks for travellers from outside of the EU. https://www.thelocal.es/20251113/spains-lanzarote-airport-implements-ees-border-checks Thu, 13 Nov 2025 11:05:49 +0100 spains-lanzarote-airport-implements-ees-border-checks The Canary Islands government has approved new regulations that force town halls to prioritise long-term housing and limit the number of holiday homes on the islands. https://www.thelocal.es/20251113/spains-canary-islands-approves-long-awaited-legislation-to-regulate-tourist-flats Thu, 13 Nov 2025 12:30:14 +0100 spains-canary-islands-approves-long-awaited-legislation-to-regulate-tourist-flats Three people died Saturday in separate incidents linked to rough seas on the Spanish holiday island of Tenerife, local emergency services said. https://www.thelocal.es/20251109/three-dead-in-spains-tenerife-as-rough-seas-batter-island Sun, 09 Nov 2025 09:30:25 +0100 three-dead-in-spains-tenerife-as-rough-seas-batter-island Tenerife Sur is Spain's latest airport to roll out the new EES passport checks for travellers from outside of the EU. https://www.thelocal.es/20251107/spains-tenerife-south-airport-implements-ees-border-checks Fri, 07 Nov 2025 10:16:15 +0100 spains-tenerife-south-airport-implements-ees-border-checks As the biggest Canary Island struggles against overtourism, local government in Tenerife is moving forward with an eco-tax on tourists wanting to enter the Teide national park, home to Spain's highest peak. https://www.thelocal.es/20251003/spains-tenerife-to-charge-tourists-e25-to-access-mount-teide Fri, 03 Oct 2025 11:14:08 +0200 spains-tenerife-to-charge-tourists-e25-to-access-mount-teide New data has revealed that the Canary Islands has the highest proportion of foreigners buying property anywhere in Spain, with non-Spaniards buying up around a third of the total. https://www.thelocal.es/20250811/canary-islands-leads-spain-in-property-purchases-by-foreigners-data-shows Mon, 11 Aug 2025 11:59:15 +0200 canary-islands-leads-spain-in-property-purchases-by-foreigners-data-shows The Canary Islands are once again to stage a protest against their current tourism model, this time with a march at the Teide National Park, signalling that it's not only cities which are affected by mass tourism in Spain. https://www.thelocal.es/20250603/tenerife-locals-to-stage-overtourism-protest-at-spains-highest-peak Tue, 03 Jun 2025 19:30:14 +0200 tenerife-locals-to-stage-overtourism-protest-at-spains-highest-peak Spain’s right-wing parties have rejected a proposal brought forward in the Congress and Senate to limit foreigners in the country’s two archipelagos from buying properties, with Vox labelling the move “xenophobic”. https://www.thelocal.es/20250507/spain-rejects-limit-on-foreign-home-ownership-in-canaries-and-balearics Wed, 07 May 2025 12:39:41 +0200 spain-rejects-limit-on-foreign-home-ownership-in-canaries-and-balearics The Canary government has announced that for the first time it will formally request measures from the EU which limit the purchase of homes in the Spanish archipelago by foreigners and non-residents. https://www.thelocal.es/20250408/spains-canaries-to-ask-eu-to-limit-foreigners-from-buying-property Tue, 08 Apr 2025 15:06:01 +0200 spains-canaries-to-ask-eu-to-limit-foreigners-from-buying-property Britain has been trading with the Canaries for six centuries, so it’s no surprise that some very amusing anglicisms have crept into the Spanish dialect of the Atlantic archipelago. https://www.thelocal.es/20231024/ten-english-words-beautifully-bastardised-by-spains-canary-islanders Tue, 24 Oct 2023 16:12:22 +0200 ten-english-words-beautifully-bastardised-by-spains-canary-islanders Protesters on the Spanish island of Tenerife plan to rally against the problems overtourism is causing in the Canaries for the third time in less than a year, with a demo called for February 16th to coincide with an international travel conference. https://www.thelocal.es/20250211/tenerife-calls-spains-first-mass-tourism-protest-of-2025 Tue, 11 Feb 2025 15:20:42 +0100 tenerife-calls-spains-first-mass-tourism-protest-of-2025 Six migrants have been found dead onboard several boats off the Canary Islands, the Spanish emergency services said Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.es/20241211/six-found-dead-in-migrant-boats-arriving-in-the-canaries Wed, 11 Dec 2024 12:52:56 +0100 six-found-dead-in-migrant-boats-arriving-in-the-canaries Everywhere else in Spain it’s called 'bus' or 'autobús' but there’s a very interesting theory as to why this type of transport came to have such a weird name in the Canaries. https://www.thelocal.es/20191010/why-do-people-in-the-canary-islands-call-the-bus-la-guagua Thu, 10 Oct 2019 18:48:45 +0200 why-do-people-in-the-canary-islands-call-the-bus-la-guagua Thousands took part in rallies in the Canary Islands' main cities on Sunday against irregular migration, which has seen a huge increase in boats washing up on its shores. https://www.thelocal.es/20241028/anti-migrant-protests-in-spains-canaries-draw-thousands Mon, 28 Oct 2024 10:42:01 +0100 anti-migrant-protests-in-spains-canaries-draw-thousands Thousands of flag-waving demonstrators hit the streets across Spain's Canary Islands on Sunday to demand restrictions to the mass tourism they say is overwhelming their Atlantic archipelago. https://www.thelocal.es/20241020/thousands-protest-in-spains-canary-islands-against-mass-tourism Sun, 20 Oct 2024 18:47:30 +0200 thousands-protest-in-spains-canary-islands-against-mass-tourism