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WauWau-Lanzarote is a charity that supports abondoned animals on Lanzarote. They would like to invite all of their friends, colleagues to spend a great afternoon for the benefit of abandoned animals, with information, entertainment, food and drink, games for kids and...

The next Carnival will have the centerpiece of the world of the Vikings. This was decided by the 4140 citizens who participated in the poll organized by the area of Celebrations of the City of Arrecife. As pointed out by the councillor responsible, Victor Sanginés,...

What a pleasure it was to attend the 9-Lives Charity Dinner, Race night and Auction at La Bocaina Restaurant in Playa Blanca on Friday evening. As always, the owners Nina & Paul Ecob created a mouth-watering menu and donated part of the ticket cost to the charity....

"Our businesses can no longer afford the inactivity of 'aqueducts.' The loss of work activity must be kept to a bare minimum," asserts Jesús Terciado, vice-president of the employers' association CEOE and president of the Spanish Small Business Confederation (Cepyme)....

The City of Tias has decided that its carnival in Puerto del Carmen in 2012 has the theme 'The Wild West' and is slowly closing all that that entails. The dates for the celebrations of the carnival will be on 23, 24, 25 and 26 next February and has already opened the...

The last Wacky Wednesday of 2011 in the Tias & Arrecife store on the 19th of October, with: 15% off everything in store and up to 75% off selected items. But remember... when it´s gone, it´s gone!! So make the most of the last Wacky Wednesday of the year! Opening...

The Director General of Security and Emergency for the Government of the Canary Islands, Juan Manuel Santana, has confirmed the existence of two emission points of the volcanic eruption on the island of El Hierro. The two emission points are located at two and a half...

Lanzarote's establishments achieved during the month of September to overcome the average occupancy level of 85.15 percent, achieving the second-highest total of nine months of 2011. According to the study prepared monthly by ASOLAN, in the ninth months of 2011,...

The Meteorological Agency has activated the yellow alert for Tuesday for high temperatures. In the early hours the skies will be cloudy intervals tend to be middle clouds and high temperatures will be later, reaching 34 degrees. There is a probability of haze. The...

For the first time in history, the theme of Arrecife Carnival will be chosen by popular poll. For nearly two weeks, you can choose between half a dozen options via online social networks. The result will be announced later this month.According to the concejal de...

Living in Lanzarote is an idyllic life – the sunshine, the people, the food, the landscape, the beach – all elements that make for a tranquil lifestyle, but if you have to work for a living, the 6am alarm clock is a way of life 6 days a week. Struggling to pull...

The local Government has already signed with the record company Torresci SL to the start of construction of the bicycle lane, which will run between the Grand Hotel in Arrecife, and the bus station, near the headquarters of the Cabildo de Lanzarote. This work will...

As if we didn´t already have an excuse to drink wine… El Grifo Canari was the only Canarian wine to be awarded the silver medal at the 10th edition of the Mundus Vinis International Contest celebrated in September at Neustadt, Germany. The jury, composed of 270...

Don't forget that this Saturday is the day for the Ocean Lava Triathlon in Lanzarote. The race starts at 8am and consists of a 1.9km swim, 90km bike ride and finally a 21.1km run. All participants must be finished by 4.30pm. So go on down to the Playa Grande, Puerto...

Lanzarote will host on October 7th the Ecomac Conference: Environmental Management in SMEs . The event will take place in the Hall of Arrecife Gran Hotel, from 17:00 to 18:30. Provincial Federation of Small and Medium Enterprise Metal and New Technologies of Las...

The Plaza de las Naciones in Puerto del Carmen was the scene this weekend of The Summer Music Festival and Oktoberfest, traditional German beer festival. Two events that involved the collaboration of the City of Tias and the Cabildo of Lanzarote, and whose proceeds...

The harvest this year has been the worst in the last 60 years, and they collected only 716,043.25 kilos, which is 55 percent less than in 2010, when 1,568,466 kilos were collected, as confirmed from the Control Board Denomination of Origin "Vinos de Lanzarote". The...

I was disappointed to hear of the cancellation of the Autumn course due to (it would seem) shortage of funds that subsidise the course, within Tias council. The Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo has been organizing Spanish Courses for foreigners on Lanzarote...

You can now easily recycle your cooking oil. Tías has introduced 25 bins for this purpose, with 7 in Tías, 2 in Mácher, 1 in La Asomada, 1 in Conil, 1 in Masdache and 13 in Puerto del Carmen. They are easy to spot because of their orange colour and they look like...

A 3 day festival raising money for AFA and the sporting clubs on the island in conjunction with the Ayuntamiento de Tías. Brought to you by the people already responsible for the Bomberos Foam party, Sumo Wrestling, Roller Disco plus last years FreezeMob and Art...