Breaking news and local reporting across the Red Sea coast.
The Red Sea Governorate has handed housing co-operatives a fixed timetable and what it calls a last chance — licensing file by 1 January 2027, contracts awarded by 1 April 2027, construction complete by 1 October 2028 — and says it will go to law over the land where the dates are missed.
1 October 2026
The Red Sea environmental association HEPCA says it collected 750,000 tonnes of waste in Hurghada and Marsa Alam between 2022 and 2026, pulled 25,000 tonnes of recyclables out of it and ran more than 250 beach clean-ups.
1 October 2026
Hurghada University's council has exempted students from Halayeb, Shalateen, Abu Ramad and Marsa Alam, and students with disabilities, from tuition and residence fees for 2026/2027. The same meeting approved a hospitality double degree with France's Vatel school.
1 October 2026
The Red Sea governorate has asked the Government Services Authority to set prices for plots in Hurghada and Ras Ghareb that have never had contracts issued. The governor also says the new review of land powers of attorney is not meant to hold up deals.
1 October 2026
The ministerial committee on investment disputes has accepted nearly 95% of appeals by tourism companies whose undeveloped land in Marsa Alam was withdrawn. More than 33 plots are involved, and the terms for getting them back are now public.
1 October 2026
The Red Sea governor told journalists a hospital for cancer patients is under study and a request has gone in for a faculty of medicine, while housing for tourism, petroleum and energy workers is meant to take pressure off rents in Hurghada and Ras Ghareb.
1 October 2026
From Thursday 1 October, Egyptian traffic units cut licence fees and dropped the requirement to produce a fire extinguisher, first aid kit and warning triangle when applying. All payment now happens once, at a single counter.
1 October 2026
Red Sea Governor Walid El-Barqi says the reorganised routes from Aka Square into central Hurghada run as an experiment for one month, open to amendment according to what residents and tourists say.
1 October 2026
New drinking-water networks are going into 12 areas of Hurghada and eight sewage lift stations are being built to reach parts of the city with no drainage, according to Youm7. No costs or completion dates were given.
1 October 2026
South Hurghada district has closed three scrap warehouses operating in breach of the rules in residential streets, according to Ahram Gate and Veto.
1 October 2026
Archaeologists have found a group of large water cisterns at Aydhab in the far south of the Red Sea coast, including a main tank about 15.1 metres long, built of sandstone and coral stone and sealed with lime plaster, according to Youm7.
1 October 2026
A Czech couple started their wedding on a boat off Hurghada and finished it on the sea bed in diving gear — one of several proposals and weddings that tourists have staged on this coast in recent weeks, according to Youm7.
1 October 2026