Breaking news and local reporting across the Red Sea coast.
Red Sea Governor Walid El-Borqi has set 31 December 2026 as the deadline to regularise project land that changed hands on a sale power of attorney, against a fee of 1 per cent of current market value — and building work must be finished by 30 September 2029.
13 October 2026
Red Sea Governorate has set aside places for Real Estate Tax Authority staff inside the technology centres at its main offices and the district offices, to talk property owners through filing their declarations electronically. No deadline or opening hours were given.
13 October 2026
The government is to channel 10.4 billion Egyptian pounds of public investment into the Red Sea Governorate, with 812 million of it aimed at raising Safaga port's capacity, Al-Mal reports.
13 October 2026
Civil aviation figures for August and September put Hurghada International at about 2,131,400 passengers, up 6.1 percent on last year, with Hurghada and Sharm together taking 74 percent of all traffic through Egypt's regional airports.
13 October 2026
A Red Sea tourism investors' association member tells Al-Watan the first third of October beat September, with European arrivals expected to climb over the next two months and December bookings already taken.
12 October 2026
Environmental police and a governorate committee patrolled Hurghada's ring roads from 5am and caught the truck tipping excavation waste in the industrial zone. The vehicle was impounded on the spot.
12 October 2026
Rain chances on Monday are lower than over the past two days, forecasters say, though thundery showers are still expected over Marsa Alam, Halayeb and Shalateen. Temperatures start falling from Thursday.
11 October 2026
South Hurghada district closed and sealed dozens of unlicensed scrap warehouses and waste-sorting yards inside residential blocks, saying shops and empty plots had been turned into rubbish-sorting sites.
11 October 2026
Three days of open-water swimming, cycling and running at Sahl Hasheesh ended on Sunday. Morocco took mixed-relay gold in the Arab championship and silver in the African one, and had already collected 15 medals on day one.
11 October 2026
The Red Sea Criminal Court has jailed the governorate's former director of education for 10 years for taking money from a Hurghada private school owner in exchange for lifting a ban on student transfers into the school.
11 October 2026
The Red Sea Governorate has ordered maximum flood readiness: equipment staged in the most exposed areas, sewer manholes opened as soon as rain falls, and youth hostels and youth centres prepared to take in residents if roads between the coast's towns become impassable.
11 October 2026
A free industrial zone of close to 50,000 square metres is under construction in Safaga to build boats and marine units on the coast itself — three factories, storage yards and a residential building. No cost, completion date or job figure has been published.
11 October 2026