Local
Eugenio Cabezas
Only 500 residents compared with more than 50,000. The Axarquía village Macharaviaya has 100 times fewer inhabitants than Galveston, but it has a major claim to fame. It can boast of being the birthplace of the founder of this American city, situa
Local
IGNACIO LILLO
Guadalhorce valley have been waiting for the new dual carriageway from the A-7 outer ring motorway to the terminal. The original plan was to build the road, part of the national ministry of Infrastructure's budget, to integrate with a new distributor road ... connecting industrial areas on the northwestern side of Malaga which was to be paid for by the Junta regional government. But the world financial crisis halted the plan. Impatient to proceed, last year Madrid said it would go ahead with the airport road ... alone, which is urgently needed as it also improves access to Alhaurín de la Torre, where there are rush hour hold-ups off the motorway. However the new 26.7- million-euro airport access road plan didn't make allowances for adding the future local
Local
Nieves Castro
Marbella council has agreed the process it will follow to write its long-awaited new PGOU master town plan. As part of the process to compile it, councillors want to encourage the widest public participation possible and have decided to build in ... supporters to agree with them and have a photo with [mayor] Ángeles Muñoz," the PSOE said. The team responsible for writing the new PGOU plan will start work at last in December, says the council. The current plan dates back to 1986 and urgently needs
Sport
PEDRO LUIS ALONSO
Following his meeting with Malaga CF's acting chief executive Richard Shaheen last week, Malaga mayor Francisco de la Torre expressed his "obvious concern" that the club was not implementing its viability plan which it presented to La Liga several
Local
ANTONIO M. ROMERO
The Junta de Andalucía has revealed details of its new budget for 2020, approved by the regional cabinet last Friday. The spending plan, which the regional government hopes will be passed by the Andalusian parliament by the end of the year, was ... plan. Mijas hospitality school will be up and running by the beginning of 2020, says Junta The Education department in Andalucía has been assigned more than 6.8 billion euros for 2020, 3.6% up on this year. Malaga province On a local level, ... hard-right party Vox, whose members' votes are needed to pass the PP-Cs coalition's budget, agreed not to block the spending plan as a whole, and a deal is expected to be reached next week.
National
JOSÉ MARÍA CAMARERO / PILAR MARTÍNEZ
The government is due to approve today, 11 October, a 300-million-euro package of emergency measures to soften the effects of the collapse of Thomas Cook on the country's tourism industry. The Balearics and the Canaries were especially reliant on
Local
Eugenio Cabezas
With the Real Feria de San Miguel fair in full swing in Vélez-Málaga, the town hall and emergency services have put together a comprehensive safety, self protection and evacuation plan. Information is being given about safe areas, evacuation
Local
ALBERTO GÓMEZ
...finalising the details on the plan for its 500-million-euro investment, north of the Palacio de Congresos, after the necessary changes to the town's PGOU (land-use plan) were approved in the summer. It was announced last Friday that the complex will feature
Sport
ANA PÉREZ BRYAN / ANTONIO GÓNGORA
...viability plan, which had been presented to La Liga days before, was already being implemented. However, a fortnight later, there is little evidence of this. Besides renegotiating defender Luis Hernández's contract to decrease his wage packet but increase
Local
Ivan Gelibter
...for a 20-room hotel, no taller than 12.5 metres, on Calle Tolox. Ruiz said: "As part of our General Plan, we have committed to locating plots of land such as these for hotel use; this can give a major boost to the local economy." Promoters