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Bella Pajares: "Regular physical exercise reduces the risk of relapse in breast cancer"

José Antonio Sau

Dr. Pajares has helped many women to live with more quality of life and awareness after an illness thanks to integrative oncology

Getaways

25 places to discover Granada province in 2026

Cristina Ramos | Granada

A new guide to hidden treasures, natural beauty spots, legendary fortifications and routes for the adventurous has been published

Tourism

Granada's Costa Tropical set to get its first five-star hotel

Ideal

The Daia Slow Beach Hotel La Herradura will have 220 rooms following an investment of more than 14 million euros

Economy

Spain's PM announces 'a major sovereign wealth fund', starting with 10.5 billion euros, to offset imminent end of EU aid

C. P. S.

The fund will be managed by the ICO (Spain's Official Credit Institute) and will co-invest with the private sector through loans, guarantees or equity instruments, with the ultimate goal of mobilising 120 billion euros towards housing, energy and artificial intelligence

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Marbella

Historic town hall building closes for refubishment and offices are relocated

José Carlos García | Marbella.

Portrait of Italian composer Gioachino Rossini at the age of 23.

Foreign influencers in southern Spain

Gioachino Rossini: Composing Seville's legendary barber

Tony Bryant

Visiting dignitaries at the opening of Indra's new centre in Malaga.

Technology

Indra opens its advanced avionics centre in Malaga staffed by over 700 professionals

Nuria Triguero | Malaga

Food and drink

Croquette Day: eight places in Malaga province to try original recipes

Marina Martínez

Javier Recio in the SUR offices in Malaga this week.

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Javier Recio, new editor-in-chief of SUR in English

SUR | Malaga.

Screenshot from a video captured by a local resident who came across wild boars in Capellanía.

Environment

Wild boar hunt authorised with 75 posts in Malaga province town due to overpopulation in mountainous areas

José Rodríguez Cámara | Alhaurín de la Torre

Malaga Airport in the middle of the long weekend in August.

Tourism

Malaga Airport closes 2025 with new all-time record of almost 27 million passengers

Pilar Martínez | Málaga

Pet-friendly travel

Travelling with your dog in Spain? Follow the advice of this expert dog trainer

José Carlos Castillo

Searches for pet-friendly accommodation are on the rise on accommodation booking websites

Traffic

Lorry breakdown on A-7 motorway triggers traffic jams between Torremolinos and Benalmádena

The incident has caused more than three kilometres of tailbacks in the direction of Malaga and also complicated traffic in the opposite lanes due to the so-called 'rubbernecking effect'

112 incident

Driver is arrested for threatening woman with a screwdriver in Malaga

Juan Cano | Málaga

Officers from the Sagunt National Police station immediately went to the scene and opened an investigation.

Child welfare

Investigation into death of nine-year-old boy who took his own life in Valencia on Christmas Eve

Ignacio Cabanes | Sagunt

An archive photo of Salas at the subdelegation.

Railway infrastructure

Central government considers coastal train section between Fuengirola and Marbella feasible

Antonio M. Romero | Málaga

Mountain goat in the high peaks of the Sierra Nevada, where the world's largest population of this species is found.

Environment

Andalusian regional government starts modernisation of Sierra Nevada plan

Laura Ubago | Granada

In the village. José lives and enjoys Cáñar day by day.

Lifestyle

The guitar teacher who moved from Barcelona to a tiny village in Granada's Alpujarra to teach the locals

Sandra Martínez

Art and culture

Debate over port of Malaga's giant sculptures reaches The Times: 'Roman gods that look like superheroes'

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Mijas town hall and Malaga provincial council promote new AI employability initiative

Andalusian regional government processes 2,800 cases of squatting

Winter sales arrive early in Malaga province with discounts of up to 60%

Tourist apartment owner fined 3,000 euros for installing cameras inside property

Company dismisses workers' representative after catching him on beach with his family during union hours

Extra Viveros Sepúlveda

Jardines Villalba and Viveros Sepúlveda, key references in gardening on the Costa del Sol

SUR in English | Málaga

Archive photo of head of Turismo Costa del Sol Francisco Salado at Fitur 2025.

Tourism

Costa del Sol prepares to shine at Fitur travel fair in Madrid to win back Spanish tourists

Pilar Martínez | Málaga

Extra Chef Jesús Mulero

Chef Jesús Mulero opens new gastrobar in Torrox

SUR in English | Torrox

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Peter Edgerton

The illogical throng

The Euro Zone

Mark Nayler

Cruzcampo or caviar?

Food and Drink

Andrew J. Linn

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Ignacio Lillo

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A look at La Liga

Rob Palmer

Goodbye Alonso

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Liz Parry

Fifty years on

Costa del Sol / Malaga province

Regional minister Loles López and the Mayor of Benalmádena, Juan Antonio Lara, during the visit. SUR

Regional government spends 900,000 euros on a day centre for the disabled in Benalmádena

José Carlos García | Benalmádena

The regional minister for social inclusion and the town’s mayor visited the site of the ABAD association centre and highlighted the work of the organisations in the sector

The town hall will purchase eight new calisthenics sets.

Infrastructure

Mijas to spend almost half a million euros to renovate beach equipment

José Carlos García | Mijas

Animal welfare

Alhaurín de la Torre council cares for 2,000 stray cats

José Rodríguez Cámara | Alhaurín de la Torre.

Mayor Ana Mula and councillor Isabel González try a kiosk.

Fuengirola

Fuengirola Citizen Card now allows bill payments

José Carlos García

The construction sector registered the highest growth in terms of number of companies since the start of the pandemic.

Business

Company growth in Malaga province is triple Andalucía's

Cristina Vallejo

Friends and family of Antonio Javier Gutiérrez Ramos, next to the altar by the lighthouse in Torre del Mar on Wednesday 14 January

Justice

The mother of a 30-year-old motorcyclist killed on the eastern Costa del Sol: ‘We want the truth, we want the case reopened'

Eugenio Cabezas

Environment

Costa del Sol's recycling rates soar: how do Istán, Ojén and Estepona stand out?

Chus Heredia

The 11 municipalities in the western Costa del Sol association recycled 1,300 tonnes of waste more than in 2024

The devices shall be high-resolution IP cameras.

Mijas will install more than 150 video cameras in up to 85 'key' points of the municipality

José Carlos García | Mijas

Business

Grupo Mas acquires Malaga chain Maskom Supermercados, expanding with 54 shops in the province

Juan Soto | Málaga

Mansour Konte as Balthazar, during Malaga city's January 2025 Three Kings parade.

Community spirit

Kicked out of the municipal shelter: the young hero who helped a woman during Malaga's 'dana' and became King Balthazar

Cristina Vallejo

A sample being collected in Rincón de la Victoria

Animals

Eastern Costa del Sol town introduces DNA checks to catch owners who fail to pick up dog poo

SUR

The sports complex will extend its current surface area by more than 1,300 square metres.

Infrastructure

Leisure and law: this is what the new Los Boliches complex will be like

José Carlos García | Fuengirola

Spain

Royals

King of Spain visits Versailles with Macron

SUR

Felipe VI was at an exhibition dedicated to one of his Borbon ancestors, Louis, the Grand Dauphin

Archive photo of passengers looking at a runway at El Prat Airport.

Emergencies

Plane makes emergency landing in Barcelona following threat made on board

Sumar minister Yolanda Díaz criticised the policy.

Politics

PM criticised by own coalition partners over tax breaks plan for landlords

SUR | Madrid.

Pets

Soledad: the 'man overboard' cat that found her way home to the Canary Islands

J. V. Muñoz-Lacuna

Law

Spain's Supreme Court bans banks from charging both interest and fees on same overdraft

Susana Zamora

Sport

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Ceuta

Chupete, right, sealed the win on Sunday thanks to his brace. Ñito Salas

Malaga CF

Chupete double extends Malaga CF's incredible winning run

Daryl Finch

In front of a season-high crowd at La Rosaleda on Sunday, the academy forward spearheaded a comeback win against Ceuta, one of the division's in-form teams

Tennis

Alejandro Davidovich makes surprise coaching switch as Adelaide test begins

Pedro Luis Alonso

Antequera's Javi Antón progresses with the ball during Sunday's match.

Football

A miserable weekend of third-tier action as all three Malaga province sides suffer defeats

Jorge Garrido

José María Muñoz, appearing before the media.

Sports

Malaga CF administrator defends his management: 'I joined a club that was going to disappear and changed that'

Antonio Góngora | Málaga

Interview

'In Spain everyone has their club, but I ask them to understand me too'

Ignacio Tlyko | Madrid.

Torremolinos sports tourism booms with record 86 per cent growth

Tony Bryant

Andalucía

State of the streets of Bagís. Rafael Vílchez

Andalusian villages

The village in Granada's Alpujarra that has no drinking water and its streets are unpaved

Rafael Vílchez

The hamlet of Bargís, part of the Alpujarra municipality of Órgiva, which suffered severe depopulation years ago, is almost completely cut off

Digital image of the project presented by architects Vicente Guallart and Luis Cepedano.

Development

This is what the future Playa Granada on the Costa Tropical will look like

Mercedes Navarrete | Granada

Water welfare

Andalucía's reservoirs have been gaining water for six weeks now

Fitur

Andalucía and Costa del Sol prepare to win back Spanish tourists at Fitur travel fair in Madrid

Pilar Martínez | Malaga.

The team of the Cadiz provincial authority hold a minute of silence after the murder of a woman in Olvera.

Gender-based violence

Murder of woman in Cadiz province marks second gender-based crime of 2026 in Andalucía

José Luis Piedra

Cyber security

Hacking of Costa Tropical town hall official password leads to "malicious" emails being sent out

Rebeca Alcántara | Granada

Gibraltar

Minister John Cortes discusses preparations. SUR

Astronomy

Gibraltar prepares for total solar eclipse

SUR in English

The astronomical events, in 2026 and especially 2027, are expected to draw thousands of visitors to the Rock

Winter preparations

Government orders removal of personal items from Gibraltar beaches

SUR in English

Qualifications

Gibraltar college launches level 2 maths qualification for private candidates

SUR in English

Health

Gibraltar achieves historic milestone with first organ donation

SUR in English

Culture

GEMA gallery to host open day celebrating 10th anniversary

SUR in English

Gibraltar

Gibraltar introduces new digital format for birth, death and civil partnership certificates

SUR in English

Lifestyle

Sundays has grossed four million euros and brought more than 600,000 spectators to the cinemas.

Goya Awards 2026

Sundays nominated in 13 Goya categories

Oskar Belategui | Bilbao

Filmmaker Alauda Ruiz de Azúa will compete in the best film category against Sirat, Maspalomas, Deaf and The Dinner

Gardening in southern Spain

Convolvulus cneorum

Denise Bush

A scene filmed in the Ronda bullring adds mystery to Agatha Christie's story.

Culture

Netflix's first major series of the year was filmed in Malaga province

Paco Griñán | Málaga

Social media

Sadfishing: the art of opening your heart on social media to get likes and followers

Carmen Barreiro

The Andalusian movies that captured the Bardot magic

Alekk M. Saanders

The time when Brigitte Bardot stayed at a Costa del Sol hotel with a donkey called Romeo

The dress room is where costumes and memorabilia from the classic era of flamenco can be viewed.

Cuklture

A treasured experience in the heart of Seville

Tony Bryant

Health

A doctor attending to a child in a hospital. SUR

Health and safety

Doctors call for children in Spain to be vaccinated against hepatitis A in light of alarming rise in cases

Cases among children under 15 have multiplied sixfold in Malaga province over the last five years

Health

Andalucía breaks its own record for flu vaccinations with more than 1.9 million people vaccinated during this campaign

Health

Malaga scientists find common drug may help treat severe asthma

José Antonio Sau

Elisabeth Roldán Cómitre from Malaga in hospital.

Health

Woman from Malaga has four-kilo tumour removed in A Coruña: 'They gave me three months to live'

José Antonio Sau

Health

Cristina's fight for life: 14 ICU admissions for a serious rare disease

José Antonio Sau

Health

New smoking cessation drug: mint-flavoured oral solution paid for by Spanish social security

Almudena Nogués | Málaga

What To Do

The blessing of pets during a previous San Antón event in Mijas. SUR

Culture

Patron saints festivals kick off this weekend in inland towns

Tony Bryant | Malaga.

Events are held in several towns in which ancestral traditions such as the blessing of pets take place

A person wearing tartan reads a book of poems by Robert Burns .

Burn's Night

Tartan yourself up for Burns Night at St George's church

Jennie Rhodes | Malaga.

Festival

Rockin' Race Jamboree returns to Torremolinos for 32nd instalment

Tony Bryant | Torremolinos.

A total of 35 artists will show their works on the theme of a world ravaged by conflict

Culture

New art exhibition to focus on those who live and fight in the turmoil of war

Tony Bryant | Marbella.

Heritage

The historic Nao Santa María sailing ship that will open its decks to visitors in Malaga

SUR | Malaga

Band of Friends perform a tribute to guitarist Rory Gallagher.

Concert

Music of legendary Irish guitarist revived in Estepona

Tony Bryant | Estepona.

Foreign influencers in southern Spain

The Cuban poet was considered one of the great intellectuals. SUR

Foreign influencers in southern Spain

José Martí: An intellectual 'loyal insurgent'

Tony Bryant

An important figure in Latin American literature and a staunch political activist, the poet took part in the liberation of Cuba from Spain from an early age

The scientist was awarded an honorary doctorate by the UJA.

Foreign influencers in southern Spain

Thomas C. Südhof: A German-American Nobel Prize winner adopted by Jaén

Alekk M. Saanders | Jaén

The bronze sculpture of Miss Whitney holding her work.

Foreign influencers in southern Spain

Miss Whitney: An artist who left her mark in Andalucía

Alekk M. Saanders | Huelva

Foreign influencers in southern Spain

The Huelin family: Taking care of the workers in Malaga

Alekk M. Saanders

French illustrator Gustave Doré arrived in Spain in the 1860s.

Foreign influencers in southern Spain

Gustave Doré: Conveying a realistic image of Spain

Tony Bryant | Seville

Foreign influencers in southern Spain

Antonio Machín: The 'most Spanish of Cubans'

Tony Bryant

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Tradition

Malaga's Three Kings parade - in pictures

Ñito Salas / Migue Fernández

In pictures

Three Kings parades around Malaga province

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In pictures: Malaga town mops up after a night of torrential rain and the Guadalhorce river at its highest level on record

Salvador Salas | Cártama

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