The Latest Breaking News from Canary Islands

The storm brought snow and strong winds

Two people got into trouble off a beach in Bajamar, a tourist town in the northeast of Tenerife - and a woman's body was pulled from the sea on Saturday

Officials are hopeful that seismic tours could revive the fortunes of one of the poorest Canary Islands, reports Graham Keeley

Latest travel rules and Covid entry rules for UK travellers heading on holidays to Spain, the Canary Islands, Portugal, Germany, the USA, Canada and more destinations

At least one migrant drowned and 16 were missing after their dinghy capsized in the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday night some 35 km (22 miles) off the Spanish island of Fuerteventura, a government official told reporters on Thursday.

Spain's sea rescue service on Wednesday picked up more than 300 migrants trying to reach the Canary Islands in rickety boats, with nine of them clinging to a semi-sunken dinghy.

Two bare pine tree trunks remain standing inside the jagged and colorful main crater of the volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma, while gas emissions and high temperatures continue though they are easing a month after the eruption ended. A Reuters crew was on Friday granted rare access…

Canary Islands introduced heightened level of alert for Gran Canaria and La Palma following a spike in the number of Omicron infections

The islands have experienced a ‘calima’ sandstorm which causes a layer of dust from the Sahara to settle over the holiday islands. A weather warning was in place for several Canary Islands.