- 21h ago
Mourinho calls three away trips in seven days a test for Real Madrid
Real Madrid visit Racing Santander at El Sardinero on Sunday, 1 November 2026, the first of three away matches in seven days that also take them to Athens and Valencia.
- 5d ago
Spain's jobless rate rises to 10.2% despite record employment in Q3 2026
Spain's labour force survey for the third quarter of 2026 counts 22,852,600 people in work, while unemployment rose by 95,900 people, lifting the rate to 10.2%.
- 5d ago
Mbappé apologises over Mao remark as China suspends LaLiga broadcasts and sponsors exit
Chinese sponsors dropped Kylian Mbappé and state broadcasters pulled LaLiga matches after his podcast remark about Mao Zedong. Real Madrid and La Liga have apologised, but the suspensions have not been lifted.
- Oct 23
Storm Austen set to bring orange coastal alerts and waves over 7 m to northern Spain
AEMET has placed parts of Spain's northern coast under orange warnings for Friday, 23 October, with waves forecast up to 8 metres in Cantabria and the Basque Country.
- Oct 22
Spain's STI cases stabilise in 2025, but chlamydia keeps rising to 44,511 cases
Spain recorded 44,511 chlamydia cases in 2025, up 3.9% on 2024, while gonorrhoea held steady and syphilis and lymphogranuloma venereum edged down. The annual report from the Health Ministry and the Instituto de Salud Carlos III was published on 22 October 2026.
- Oct 15
Cinema attendance falls 35.5% since 2019 as live popular music hits record highs
Cinema attendance in Spain stood 35.5% below 2019 levels in 2025, while live popular music drew 36.96 million people including macrofestivals, according to the SGAE yearbook.
- Oct 1
Murcia leads Spanish regional growth at 3.8% as Madrid reaches 20% of national GDP in 2025
National data from INE shows all Spanish regions grew faster than the EU average of 1.4% in 2025, though per capita income disparities persisted between Madrid and southern territories.
- Oct 1
Spain public debt reaches 1.763 trillion euros in Q2 2026 as GDP ratio holds at 101.4%
Total liabilities across Spanish public administrations climbed 4.3% year-on-year to 1.763 trillion euros between April and June 2026, while the debt-to-GDP ratio dropped 1.8 percentage points from a year earlier.
- Sep 30
Spain lifts yellow and orange weather warnings across Cantabria as storms ease
Spain's State Meteorological Agency deactivated all yellow and orange rain and storm alerts across Cantabria on Sunday morning as showers began to subside.
- Sep 26
Spanish lottery draws award top prizes in Leon and Santander on 26 September
The 26 September 2026 Loteria Nacional drawing distributed 42 million euros in Madrid, sending the 600,000-euro top series prize to Leon and second prize to Santander.
- Aug 26
Antonio Garamendi secures third CEOE term as no rival registers by deadline
The Basque businessman will be proclaimed president of Spain's main business confederation on 1 October 2026 after the candidate registration window closed without an opposing ticket.
- Aug 22
Cantabria cattle farmer dies after bull attack and hospital infection
A 58-year-old farmer from Llerana died following two weeks in intensive care after being gored by his bull and contracting a bacterial infection at Valdecilla Hospital.
- Aug 12
Total solar eclipse to darken northern Spain and sweep Europe on 12 August 2026
A total solar eclipse on 12 August 2026 will be the first visible from continental Europe since 2006, with totality crossing Spain, Iceland and Greenland while Greece sees only a sliver of a partial eclipse at sunset.
- Jul 31
Partner arrested after 27-year-old woman killed in Santander flat; case investigated as 33rd gender violence death of 2026
A 39-year-old man called police and confessed to killing his partner, 27, at noon on 31 July in a central Santander apartment. The Ministry of Equality is treating the case as a suspected gender-based murder, which would bring Spain's 2026 toll to 33 women and leave the couple's young child orphaned.
- Jun 24
Antonio Garamendi confirms re-election bid as CEOE president, accelerates electoral process
The president of Spain's main business confederation, CEOE, has announced he will stand for a third term, calling an executive committee meeting on July 1 to set an election date likely in late September or early October.
- Jun 24
PP-led regions sue Spain's housing ministry over new 7-billion-euro plan they say tramples their powers
Andalusia, Madrid, Extremadura and Cantabria have filed or initiated legal actions against the central government's flagship housing programme, arguing it guts regional autonomy and forces them to shoulder disproportionate costs.
- Jun 22
BBVA president denies mortgage collusion as Spain's competition watchdog probes six largest banks
Carlos Torres, president of BBVA, said the bank does not adjust its mortgage pricing based on competitors' public remarks, after Spain's competition authority opened an investigation into possible collusion among the six largest lenders.
- Jun 13
Man dies after chest wound in Santander nightlife fight, two arrested
A man died from a chest wound early on Saturday after a fight in Santander’s nightlife area. Police detained two men at the scene.
