Breaking news and local reporting across the Red Sea coast.
Export lorries queuing for Safaga port have spread into residential streets and up to the gates of Osama Ibn Zaid Primary School, with parents demanding they be moved and the governor ordering a new parking yard.
29 September 2026
Tour operators tell Al-Masry Al-Youm the coast is opening its winter season with German tour-operator contracts in front, Russian charters back in strength and Scandinavian routes still under negotiation.
29 September 2026
Red Sea Governorate has put every city on raised readiness for the rain season, with inspection teams this week checking the 12.4-kilometre flood canal beside Ras Ghareb and protection works at two desert monasteries, according to Sada El-Balad.
29 September 2026
Work has started on a 19-million-pound first phase to bring mains drinking water to Taqsim Al-Nour, a Red Sea district the water company says is not yet connected.
29 September 2026
The Al-Amal health unit in Ras Ghareb has reopened after a 7-million-pound refurbishment covering the emergency room, the dental and family medicine clinics, the pharmacy and the vaccination department, for a town of around 60,000 people.
29 September 2026
Classes resumed on Tuesday at Al-Mina language school in Hurghada, two days after a book-store fire. Parents are now asking the Red Sea governor to turn up unannounced, and listing what they say he would find.
29 September 2026
The Red Sea health directorate has named five offices and units — in Hurghada, Safaga, Ras Ghareb, El Quseir and Shalateen — where the seasonal flu vaccine is being given, Youm7 reports.
29 September 2026
Decision No. 1062 of 2026 says the governorate's local units deal only with the original contract holder — or, if that person has died, the heirs. Every land application resting on a power of attorney to sell or buy is now referred to a supreme committee first.
29 September 2026
Prosecutors in Hurghada ordered three men detained for four days after police seized 1,730 Tramadol tablets they are accused of preparing to sell in the town, Al-Masry Al-Youm reports.
28 September 2026
South Hurghada district demolished rooftop walls at two buildings in the Arabia area after inspectors caught the work going up in breach of the permits, Sada El-Balad reports.
28 September 2026
Police seized three gold bars, five phones, a laptop and cryptocurrency wallets from a Red Sea Governorate resident accused of running two websites carrying content offending public decency, Youm7 and El Watan report.
28 September 2026
Al-Ahram reports that the official language school in Marsa Alam has opened applications for its kindergarten. No dates, fees or number of places were given.
28 September 2026