Public celebrations of the New Year are being cancelled left, right and centre in the face of the ever-increasing number of people infected with the latest variant of the Covid-19 virus - the highly contagious Omicron. 

Every year, the Fundación del Español Urgente (FundéuRAE) - Foundation for Urgent Spanish - with the support of the Real Academia Española, votes for its 'word of the year', and the winning word for 2021 is 'vaccine' (vacuna in Spanish) - one of ...

Every year, to celebrate Epiphany, people in Spain consume somewhere in the region of 30 million Roscones de Reyes - traditional brioche-style, ring-shaped cakes often baked with a citrus peel and/or orange blossom water, and topped with sugar, almon...

ANOTHER year passes at breakneck speed, grape sales in Spanish supermarkets rocket – tradition dictates that you eat one at each of the 12 'bongs' at midnight – and everyone on earth tries to remember a time when celebrations of any nature didn't...

OVER 9,000 letters have been sent in barely a week from members of the public to elderly residents in nursing homes as part of the nationwide 'Adopt a Grandparent' scheme.

KING Felipe VI's traditional Christmas Eve night speech called for 'public institutions' to 'show responsibility' and be 'an example of moral integrity', as well as urging society 'not to take backwards steps' in the battle against the Coronavirus pa...

THIS year's presidential message to troops spending Christmas on overseas missions focused in particular on the Forces' heroic efforts in evacuating over 2,300 Afghans plus numerous Spanish nationals via Kabul airport (pictured) after the Taliban reg...

WET-WIPES wrongly flushed down the toilet are an expensive environmental headache, causing fatbergs and backflowing from drains, ending up in rivers, the sea, and coating beaches – but a team of researchers at Málaga University has found a way to ...

The number of mortgages signed in Spain went up by 27.9% in October compared with the same month last year. A total of 36,249 deals were signe - the highest figure for the month of October since 2010.

From 1st January 2022 there will be changes to the manufacturers' guarantees that come with new electrical goods. The Spanish Consumers' Association (OCU) has confirmed that products sold from the beginning of next year will come with a three-year ma...

On Christmas Eve face masks will once again become compulsory outdoors as well as in shops, public transport, public buildings, restaurants, bars, etc. 

The Christmas lottery in a quintessential part of Spanish festive traditions, just like setting up a nativity scene in your home or, decorating the tree or serving smoked salmon for dinner on Christmas Eve.  Year after year, millions of Spaniard...

86148 is the winning number in this year's Spanish Christmas lottery. It was sold across Spain, with many tickets being sold in Madrid, and a high proportion of them in the lottery outlet in Atocha train station, the capital's high-speed train (AVE) ...

Two griffin vultures and two eagle-owls, nursed back to health in the Centre for the Recovery of Threatened Species (C.R.E.A.) in Los Villares, Córdoba, were released back into the wild on Friday.

Almost half the reported Covid cases in Spain are now testing as the highly contagious Omicron variant, with the proportion shooting up from 3.4% to 47.2% in just one week according to the latest data from the Ministry of Health.