Breaking news and local reporting across the Red Sea coast.
The governor has reordered Hurghada's paving plan for 2026-27 and named the streets in it, from Midan 51 to the tourist promenade, and ordered work started on changing traffic flow.
25 September 2026
Complaints have returned in El Quseir over water that reaches homes late, weakly or not at all. The pumping gap has stretched from seven days to eight, and in some areas to ten. The water company says a new 25,000-cubic-metre-a-day desalination plant is planned for the town.
25 September 2026
Egypt's tourism minister has outlined a plan to resume Russian charter flights to Marsa Alam airport, alongside a security inspection of the facility, according to Al-Masry Al-Youm.
25 September 2026
Safaga's waste has spread to the corniche, the school gates and the port entrance after the cleaning tender was cancelled for the second time. The local development minister wants contracts signed before the month is out.
25 September 2026
Three hospital radiology departments and four beauty and skin clinics were shut for operating without a licence, the Health Ministry said, naming each one.
25 September 2026
The governorate has begun the first phase of a national price-cut scheme: 12 basic goods sold through 13 Egyptian Wholesale Trade Company branches, plus three mobile vans serving social housing north of Hurghada.
25 September 2026
Education directorate sources say an urgent meeting on Sunday will try to contain the row in Hurghada's language schools, where pupils who had already started German were moved to French.
25 September 2026
Changes to the direction of travel on several main streets go on trial from Saturday, and will only be made permanent if they survive the test.
25 September 2026
Atef Abdel Latif has put combined tourism investment in the Red Sea and Sinai at one trillion Egyptian pounds, and says Egypt is targeting 30 million tourists a year.
9 September 2026
The governorate's education directorate has declared itself ready for the start of the school year, with school water tanks disinfected across the Red Sea and a surprise inspection of Hurghada schools by the director of education.
9 September 2026
Al-Masry Al-Youm reports waste accumulating directly outside school entrances in Safaga, raising environmental and health concerns for pupils as the new academic year approaches.
9 September 2026
The Red Sea Water and Wastewater Company has begun supplying Hurghada's Mubarak 11 district by direct pumping, according to Ahram Gate. The report gives no figure for the number of homes connected and no cost.
9 September 2026