DESPITE the pandemic's having caused a slowdown in personal property purchases, investors are keen to keep buying and plan to expand their portfolios this year, in both residential and commercial buildings.

A LEADING Spanish hospital says it has come up with an 'effective treatment plan' for sufferers of fibromyalgia, an often-debilitating 'invisible illness' of which awareness has been increasing in the past 10 years.

THIS Easter weekend will be another where the usual holiday traffic jams on motorways are very unlikely, since all regions in Spain – except the Canary Islands – have shut their borders to prevent mass movement across the country.

A SITE for test-driving drones and learning to pilot them within a built-up area is due to be set up in Spain – the first of its type in Europe.

BASQUE Country inhabitants who have no 'outside influence' in their DNA may truly be a different race and once had no connections to natives of the Iberian Peninsula as a whole – in fact, 'genetically unique', according to research at Barcelona's P...

KING Felipe VI and his wife Queen Letizia have arrived in Andorra for an official visit – which might not seem very newsworthy were it not for the fact they are the first Spanish monarchs to do so in 602 years.

SPAIN is missing its fiestas so much that, for some residents, these are uppermost on their minds – especially with Easter on the horizon and the probability of the hauntingly-emotional Good Friday parades being off the agenda for the second year r...

A PROPOSED takeover bid by CaixaBank for State-run entity Bankia has been approved by the National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC), subject to certain caveats about charges for accounts and cashpoint use, and ensuring banking services conti...

PROBABLY the largest Goya exhibition in recent memory, the world première of a display now open in Granada features over 1,000 pictures, set to music.

ONE of Spain's top scientists and key experts in viral contagion has warned the public to look out for a seemingly-harmless habit before walking into a shop or other closed building.

NATIONAL supermarket chain Mercadona is seeking extra staff for the long Easter and the summer seasons, which will initially be temporary but could become permanent depending upon business needs in the near future.

TRAFFIC authorities in Spain have used Formula 1 legend Fernando Alonso's bike crash in Switzerland to illustrate how to avoid accidents on two wheels, but 'without prejudice' as the actual cause of the racing driver's mishap.

AN 'EXAMPLE' of anti-Covid management that has made it to the cover of The New York Times, but not through confining its inhabitants or any other restrictions – a municipality in Catalunya has suddenly leapt onto the global media stage.

SPAIN will restart administration of the AstraZeneca or 'Oxford' vaccine from this coming Wednesday (March 24) based upon a European Medicines Agency (EMA) verdict that it is 'safe and effective' and that the 'benefits outweigh the risks'.

FOR the second year running, the Valencia region's massive March Fallas fiestas are off the agenda due to the pandemic, but celebrations are still happening somehow or another – firework displays are still due to take place tonight (Friday), even i...