Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeah, Minister of Health, has issued instructions assigning a team of engineers from the ministry and Jeddah Health Affairs to inspect Al-Qunfudha General Hospital's electrical system in the wake of power disruptions there. ?The (...)
The land grant plan, suspended for the last 14 years as a result of some individuals' objections and claims to the real estate, has been restored and accordingly 484 plots of lands will be given to the residents here.
The restoration of the (...)
Residents of Malihat Al-Murawaha in Mahayial Asir are concerned that their village could be flooded by rising groundwater resulting from the building of the Wadi Hali Dam.
“Our homes run alongside the reserve basin, and measures need to be taken to (...)
Pipes protruding from the walls of a house and frequent nocturnal visits from unknown persons led to the arrest of one person on Saturday for producing and selling the alcoholic beverage araq. Neighbors informed the police of suspicious activities (...)
A man and wife have confessed to at least two thefts of jewelry stores by staging marital rows to distract the attention of shop assistants. Police heard how the couple entered a store in Al-Qunfudha and asked to see a gold belt before staging an (...)
A secondary school pupil who sneaked out of class for a crafty smoke ended up with burns to his arms and face when the car he been hiding behind caught fire from his cigarette. The pupil had chosen his smoking place next to the vehicle of a fellow (...)
Police say that there are no suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of a Bangladeshi man whose body was found lying in a field at a farm in the region of Hali Saturday morning. Police were alerted by work colleagues discovered the body of (...)
Police have detained a man in his thirties accused of impersonating an official from the Mayor's Office in order to steal telephone SIM cards from shops. The man reportedly entered a shop in Hail in the south of Al-Qunfudha waving official (...)
Search divers recovered on Sunday the body of a Saudi fisherman from the sea floor at Ras Muhaisan, 75 km to the north of Al-Qunfudha. Fisherman Saleh Al-Masoudi had been reported missing by relatives when he failed to return from a fishing trip and (...)
A six-member gang of pickpockets that preyed on old ladies in a market in Al-Qawz to the south of Al-Qunfudha were arrested Sunday and found to be carrying 7,000 riyals, allegedly the result of a single day's thieving.
Police said the six, who were (...)
A Saudi man has sold a falcon he found in the wilderness for the sum of SR299,000, or nearly $80,000.
Sa'eed Al-Huweiti, from the village of Al-Musa'adiya to the north of Al-Qunfudha, said he came across the bird on a hunting trip to the region's (...)
An elderly man was killed by a kick to the head from one of his camels as he entered their pen to feed them Friday morning. The camel owner in the town of Al-Haila south of Al-Qunfudha was reportedly rushed to hospital by his family but died shortly (...)
A gang of four sheep thieves was arrested Wednesday when officials at a checkpoint noticed their pick-up truck showing signs of animal droppings and containing cutting tools. The gang later confessed to stealing sheep from farm enclosures and (...)
A secondary school student jesting with his colleague in Al-Mutahamah village, 20 km northeast of Al-Qunfuda Governorate, led to a head-on collision between their cars and the death of the former on the spot. The driver and his companion were (...)
Search teams recovered Sunday the body of an elderly man who reportedly drowned in a small lake at a farm in Wadi Hali. Police believe the 73-year-old man to have died when flood waters passing through the valley swept him away as he attempted to (...)
A young man was found to have been responsible for the theft of jewelry and gold worth SR25,000 from the house of a local teacher after police spotted him attired in an unusually exorbitant fashion. Police were called to the scene of the crime (...)
A Somali driver hiding 42 illegal immigrants in his truck was given away during a police inspection by a sneeze from inside the vehicle.
Police asked to see the man's identity papers when his behavior at a petrol station raised their suspicions, (...)
A family whose house went up in flames feared the worst when rescue teams were unable to locate their four-year-old child among the smoke and flames. Once the fire had been extinguished, however, the child was found to be sitting on the roof of the (...)
The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Hai'a) has arrested three youths who tried to blackmail a university student after one of them obtained photographs of her and gave copies to his friends. The three reportedly made (...)
Police conducting a pursuit in Wadi Hali of numerous persons who had entered the Kingdom illegally were surprised on Thursday when one individual came sprinting out of the woods where he was hiding seeking their help.
The man, who had been hiding (...)
A second mass brawl in as many days in the south of the Kingdom led to two persons receiving hospital attention and another being detained by police. The fight at a Bisha school on Wednesday, which came only two days after another scene of violence (...)
A man one year short of completing a century hanged himself in the town of Uneiker, some 40 km to the south of Al-Qunfudha. The man's body was found by his son hanging from a tree outside their house, the cloth of a headdress around his neck. (...)
The Health Affairs Directorate has opened an investigation into the disappearance of a surgeon working at Al-Barak Hospital who was thought to be responsible for a medical error while operating on an eight-year-old child.
Aamir Muhammed Al-Helali, (...)
One youth has died and another survived after struggling with heavy waves and currents in the Red Sea. The two, who were part of a group of four young men camping on the coast near Al-Qunfudha, decided to go into the sea. When heavy waves began to (...)
The Al-Gowz Municipality in Al-Qunfudha Governorate has closed down three restaurants, a cafeteria and two groceries imposing fines on them for violating health regulations. Ahmad Al-Sarhani, Health Supervisor, said 30 rotten chickens and large (...)