Breaking news and local reporting across the Red Sea coast.
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
Egyptian hotels are opening the winter season with room rates up to 20% higher, with international flights into Hurghada up 10% and Marsa Alam up 9%, according to Tourism Daily News.
1 October 2026
Occupancy at a number of Hurghada properties has passed 90%, with some Marsa Alam hotels at 90–93%, as the winter season begins and European flights keep arriving, Tourism Daily News reports.
30 September 2026
The governorate has warned hotels and resorts it will go to the Central Bank to freeze their accounts if the 1% charge on guests' bills is not settled — a levy an administrative court has already ruled against.
30 September 2026
Four of Hurghada's busiest junctions become a single one-way circuit from Thursday 1 October, in a month-long trial of the Red Sea governor's new traffic plan.
30 September 2026
Mountain safari trips out of Hurghada are filling again as temperatures ease, with hundreds of European visitors heading into the Eastern Desert daily, Youm7 reports. Early-morning hotel pickups, beach buggies and Bedouin tea — but no prices given.
30 September 2026
Travel packages to Hurghada and Sharm el-Sheikh have risen in price for November, Egypt Independent reports, as a 28 November Shakira concert at the Pyramids and the Grand Egyptian Museum drive demand. No figure is given for the coast.
30 September 2026
South Hurghada district closed three premises in the Schools area, El-Basha and Arabia, all for having no licence to operate. The district says daily inspections of shops and cafeterias will continue.
30 September 2026
The trade fair has moved to Hurghada after two editions in Cairo, and its programme is built around hotels using AI and revenue-management tools to price rooms by demand rather than a fixed annual rate.
30 September 2026
A consortium of two Egyptian electrical contractors has come in cheapest in the tender to expand Safaga's 22/66/11 kV substation, at 963.15 million pounds plus $2.6 million. The award has not been made yet.
30 September 2026
Prosecutors have freed the foreign passenger stopped by customs at Hurghada International Airport pending investigation, two days after the seizure of 407 assorted pills and a bottle labelled CBD.
29 September 2026