RIYADH — The Transport General Authority (TGA) revealed that delivery companies in Saudi Arabia achieved remarkable growth during the year 2024, with the number of registered orders exceeding 290 million.
This growth reflects the continuous (...)
RIYADH — Several people were arrested after foiling attempts to smuggle in a huge cache of hashish in various regions of the Kingdom.
The General Directorate of Anti-Narcotics arrested an Ethiopian border security violator, two Yemeni residents, and (...)
JEDDAH — The National Center of Meteorology has forecast light to moderate rainfall over several parts of the Makkah region — including Makkah city, Al-Jumum, Bahrah, Khulais, Jeddah, and Rabigh — on Saturday and Sunday.
In response, the Civil (...)
RIYADH — The General Directorate of Civil Defense urged people across Saudi Arabia to exercise caution and vigil amid forecasts of thunderstorms and heavy rains that are expected to continue until Monday.
Saudi citizens and expatriates are advised (...)
ABHA — A powerful storm swept across the Asir region on Tuesday, bringing heavy rain and large hail that blanketed mountain peaks and roads, transforming the landscape into a winter-like scene rarely seen in the area.
The storm affected Abha and (...)
RIYADH — The General Directorate of Civil Defense called on the public to take utmost vigil and caution amid forecast of expected heavy rains across most regions of Saudi Arabia until Friday.
The directorate advised people to stay in safe areas, and (...)
MAKKAH — Sarar in the Taif governorate in the Makkah region recorded the highest rainfall at 64 mm, among 10 regions that witnessed rain on Friday.
The Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture stated in its report on rainfall across all (...)
JEDDAH — Several Saudi regions, including Makkah and Madinah, experienced moderate to heavy rain on Thursday. Rainfall was recorded in nine Saudi regions, with the Jamiah district of the Jeddah city in the Makkah region recorded the highest amount (...)
JEDDAH — The National Center of Meteorology (NCM) has warned that most regions of Saudi Arabia will continue to be affected by moderate to heavy thunderstorms from Wednesday until next Sunday.
There is a possibility for moderate to heavy rain, (...)
RIYADH — The General Directorate of Civil Defense has urged the public to exercise caution, remain in safe areas, and avoid valleys and flood-prone locations as heavy thunderstorms continue to affect most regions of Saudi Arabia until next (...)
RIYADH — The National Center for Vegetation (NCV) Cover launched a project to study and evaluate degraded sites in the western and southern regions of Saudi Arabia using the latest technologies, and prepare plans to rehabilitate them in accordance (...)
RIYADH — The General Directorate of Civil Defense has issued a weather warning for most regions of Saudi Arabia. Moderate to heavy rain is expected to continue until Friday in the regions of Makkah, Riyadh, Madinah, Tabuk, Hail, Qassim, Eastern (...)
RIYADH — The National Center of Meteorology (NMC) stated that most regions of Saudi Arabia will continue to be affected by thunderstorms until Monday.
The NMC stated that this weather condition is expected to be accompanied by downwinds, torrential (...)
ABHA — The Royal Saudi Air Force will participate in the Cobra Warrior 25-1 exercise, which will be held in the United Kingdom alongside the forces of a number of friendly countries.
A farewell party was given at King Khalid Air Base in the southern (...)
RIYADH — Fifteen government employees were among 19 people arrested after busting three drug trafficking gangs from the regions of Asir, Jazan and the Eastern Province.
According to an official source at the Ministry of Interior, the arrested gang (...)
RIYADH — The Saudi Electricity Regulatory Authority (SERA) has announced the full restoration of electricity service to all consumers affected by the outage that occurred at 16:01 on Saturday in the southern regions.
The SERA Board of Directors (...)
RIYADH — Hussein Al-Qahtani, the official spokesperson for the National Center of Meteorology (NCM), confirmed that the Kingdom will enter the final third of winter by the end of next week, with no indications of a harsh winter ahead.
Al-Qahtani (...)
RIYADH — The National Center of Meteorology (NMC) said that most regions of Saudi Arabia will receive rain of varying intensity, starting from Thursday until Monday. According to the NMC forecast, rain will be accompanied by descending winds that (...)
RIYADH — The National Center of Meteorology (NCM) has forecasted that most regions of Saudi Arabia will experience rain of varying intensities, ranging from light to moderate and heavy, starting from Friday, and continuing through Sunday, Jan. (...)
RIYADH — The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development launched Empowerment Clinics that enhance the capabilities of social security beneficiaries, and work to address the social and economic challenges they face, through establishing (...)
RIYADH — There has been a growth of 70 percent in the commercial registrations for cloud computing services, according to a report of the Ministry of Commerce. The report for the fourth quarter of 2024 recorded a 36 percent increase in the growth of (...)
JEDDAH — The National Center of Meteorology (NMC) revealed that the most intense cold wave that Saudi Arabia had ever witnessed was in 1992. The NMC's Hail station recorded the lowest ever temperature in January 1992 at -9.3 degree Celsius and an (...)
RIYADH — More than 480,000 Saudi women have joined the employment market in just four years, specifically from the end of the second quarter of 2020 until the same period in 2024.
This figure shows an average of 328 Saudi women entered the labor (...)
RIYADH — The General Directorate of Border Guards has foiled several attempts to smuggle in a huge cache of drugs and seized them. The seized drugs include 1.3 tons of hashish, 1,388,622 narcotic pills and 136 tons of khat.
The operations that took (...)
JEDDAH — The winter season, which lasts about 89 days, begins officially in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, according to the Jeddah Astronomical Society.
The winter solstice, signaling the shortest day and longest night of the year in the Northern (...)
