Costa Teguise is finally close to getting its own bus station. Teguise council has signed off the last piece of municipal paperwork standing in the way, clearing a land ownership problem that had held the project up, with the title to the site nee...
The heatwave sitting over the Canaries since Wednesday has now caught up with Lanzarote. AEMET has put the island and neighbouring La Graciosa under yellow warnings for high temperatures this Saturday and Sunday, having left both out of the alerts...
Off-road buggy and quad excursions on Lanzarote's rural land could be halted as early as August, with enforcement already stepped up. In the first half of 2026 the Cabildo's environmental agents penalised more than a hundred people, and the team w...
Lanzarote's unemployment rate has fallen to 9.6%, the lowest of any Canary Island and the only one in the archipelago to sit below the Spanish national average of 9.8%. The figures come from the Active Population Survey (EPA) and the regional stat...
Spain's Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, arrives on Lanzarote on Saturday 1 August for around three weeks, his regular sum...
The busy sea crossing between Playa Blanca and Corralejo has a new boat working it. Líneas Romero put its latest ferry, the Juan Jorge R., into service on 31 July 2026, replacing an older vessel on the short hop between Lanzarote and Fuerteventura. The company describes the new boat as part of a steady modernisation of its fleet, aimed at…
Read MoreDetermined not to miss the first family holiday abroad, a British couple and their two young children abandoned their taxi and walked down the M6 with their suitcases when a crash shut the motorway on the way to their Birmingham flight to Lanzarote.
Read MoreLanzarote has more residents than at any point in its history. The island's population reached 170,155 in July 2026, crossing the 170,000 threshold for the first time, on figures from Spain's National Institute of Statistics. In the space of a year it added 2,786 people.
Read MoreRecognising a beach flag is about to get easier for the millions of people who are colour blind.
Read MoreLanzarote welcomed 1.7 million tourists in the first half of 2026, holding almost exactly level with the same period last year, down by only about 5,000. Behind that steady headline, though, the nationalities filling the island's hotels have changed a good deal, with sharp gains from southern and central Europe balancing out a heavy fall from Scandinavia.
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Lanzarote has always something to offer for the whole family.
Puerto Del Carmen is one of the main tourist resorts in Lanzarote, with a bustling promenade and a lively nightlife.
Playa Blanca is a place where you can have a little lavish holiday with a yacht ride or a ferry ride to Fuerteventura Island.
Costa Teguise is a popular coastal town with lots of British restaurants and pubs.
Puerto Calero is one the most luxurious ports in the Canary Islands with great restaurants and also some very popular boutiques.
