Las Palmas city has over 400,000 inhabitants making it one of Spain's biggest cities. Here's the Gran Canaria Info guide to the city's main barrios and what to see and do in them.

Gran Canaria's resorts are choc-a-bloc this winter and bargain hotel and accommodation is been hard to find. The capital city Las Palmas, however, offers an alternative with some excellent hotels at great prices.

Oil exploration permits around the Canary Islands have run out so there will be no more drilling in the near future.

Great Gran Canaria videos published during April 2016. See the best ones from March here. 

Published on April 1st 2016 as an April Fool's Day joke: The first Gran Canaria Lions were released back into the Maspalomas dunes nature reserve this morning after an 80-year absence.

You know spring has arrived in Gran Canaria when the pretty but misnamed Mayflower blooms all over the north of the island.

A sunny start to the week with cloud and showers in the north from Wednesday.

Las Palmas has a reputation for being a cloudy city, but is also famous as the city with the world's most pleasant climate. What's going on?

Four new 5 Star hotels are now of strategic importance to Gran Canaria, according to the Canarian government.