Breaking news and local reporting across the Red Sea coast.
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
Two Red Sea towns reported greening work on the same day: Safaga is trimming roadside trees to clear its streets, and Marsa Alam says it is intensifying planting to widen its green spaces.
9 September 2026
Inspectors have logged building violations at seven properties in Safaga's Radio and Television subdivision, the latest step in a Red Sea enforcement drive that has already halted work in Hurghada and El Quseir.
9 September 2026
District authorities have shut and sealed a scrap warehouse operating without a licence in South Hurghada, Ahram Gate reports, publishing photographs. The owner, exact location and any fine were not disclosed.
8 September 2026
The utility says it is taking strict legal measures against encroachment on its water networks and to protect state facilities, according to Ahram Gate. The report gives no case numbers, districts or penalties.
8 September 2026
The governorate's health directorate says it has lifted the state of readiness at primary healthcare units and stepped up its own field monitoring of them, Sada El-Balad reports. No facility list, visit count or timeline was given.
8 September 2026
Applications have opened at the Quranic recitation institutes run by Al-Azhar's Red Sea regional administration for the coming academic year, Youm7 reports. The report gives no deadline, locations or entry requirements.
8 September 2026
Egypt's electricity side has finished the study of how a Chinese group's project inside the Golden Triangle economic zone at Safaga would be fed with power, according to the trade newspaper Power News. No investment value, capacity figure or timetable was given.
8 September 2026
Hurghada Hospital has added a clinic for blood diseases and published its opening times, according to the Egyptian daily Youm7 — the latest in a run of service additions at the town's main public hospital.
8 September 2026