The Frontier Guard sea patrols have succeeded in foiling the entry of 36 infiltrators of different nationalities including women and children across the territorial waters using a medium-sized boat. The success late Wednesday came just days after (...)
Heavy rains Wednesday in governorates of the Kingdom's south and west left some villages isolated and led to power outages. Civil Defense administrators have mobilized all their resources in response to the bad weather, which is expected to (...)
Police from Al-Qunfudah Governorate's Hali town on Friday captured 29 unidentified illegal aliens who were hiding under bundles of fodder on the bed of a small truck heading for Makkah from Jizan.
Police officers on patrol became suspicious when (...)
Two girls drowned and two of their friends were rescued by Border Guards from a no-swimming area at Ras Muhaisen beach in the north of Al-Qunfudah Governorate, Tuesday. Saleh Bin Muhammad Al-Shehri, assistant spokesman for the Border Guards in (...)
A driver was arrested here Friday for trying to smuggle to Jeddah a group of illegal aliens in his vehicle. Twelve women and a boy were also arrested, an official source in Al-Qunfudah Traffic Department said. The source said security patrols became (...)
For six years, Hussein Abdul Rahman Badawi, a Saudi national, has pursued legal action against a national road-maintenance company after he was partially paralyzed when his car fell into a deep hole in a road.
Badawi, the breadwinner for a family (...)
An Egyptian woman and two of her children died in a traffic accident on the Jeddah to Jizan coastal road on Saturday. The woman's husband and a third child survived. An accident report said that the driver lost control of the vehicle the family was (...)
Prince Khaled Al-Faisal, Emir of Makkah, begins Saturday a four-day visit to the region of Taif during which he will hold a series of meetings with regional authorities to review development works and tourism promotion.
Prince Khaled's visit will (...)
The Passports Department in Al-Qunfudah Governorate has reassured illegal residents that participating in the census does not mean that they will be arrested and deported.
The Department said that the purpose of the census is to count everyone in (...)
Faisal, Emir of Makkah Region, says that there are only a few projects that are being delayed in Qunfudah, while the rest were being undertaken in good time.
He cited as an example of a delayed project the building of a technical college and nine (...)
Prince Khaled Al-Faisal, Emir of Makkah, on Sunday criticized delay in completion of some development projects in Al-Laith and Qunfudah.
“There are 18 stalled projects while 20 others have been completed,” the Emir said in response to a (...)