When she learned she was on the waiting list for a kidney transplant, Clarisney Camacaro's joy at the news was mixed with worry about what she would do with her daughter Valeria while she had to be hospitalized. As a single mother with no nearby relatives to help her, her options were limited. Until someone at work told her about the Barcelona City Council's Collaborating Families Service, a municipal program with over four decades of history in which volunteer families offer to lend a hand with the logistics of people in the same situation as Clarisney and Valeria. The network for those who have no network.

A step forward by the Government to accelerate the conversion of the Three Chimneys of Sant Adrià de Besòs into an audiovisual hub. The Catalan executive has approved declaring the Catalunya Media City a strategic project for the country. A measure that will eliminate bureaucratic hurdles and speed up key actions for the project, such as everything related to energy infrastructure. With this declaration, the Government aims for the Three Chimneys to access priority processing regarding connection permits and capacity to the electricity grid.

The return home of the neighbors of the Sant Gervasi - la Bonanova neighborhood affected by the sinkhole from the L9 works will begin gradually on Monday, but will still last a few weeks. This Friday was the scheduled date for the first residents to be able to return to their apartments after ten days. In statements to journalists, the director general of Infrastructures of the Generalitat, Ramon Ramírez, explained that the inhabitants of two blocks on Sant Gervasi de Cassoles street – numbers 56 and 58 – will be able to start returning home on Monday, and that for the remaining six blocks, it is expected that they will be able to do so during the "coming weeks".

With less than a year to go until the municipal elections, the Barcelona City Council's barometer has provided an approximate snapshot this Friday of where the electoral race stands right now. According to the survey, the elections in the Catalan capital would be a duel between the current mayor, Jaume Collboni, and the leader of Esquerra Republicana in the council, Elisenda Alamany. Although the socialists appear as the preferred option of those surveyed with 13% – almost a point more than six months ago –, the republicans are soaring compared to the last wave of the barometer and stand at 11.1%.

48 hours after the sinkhole that the L9 works opened in the Sant Gervasi - la Bonanova neighborhood, it remains an unknown what exactly happened for the ground to suddenly open up. While fire department teams inspect one by one the 93 affected apartments to check for new movements, the causes of the incident that has forced at least eight blocks to be evacuated until Saturday are also being investigated. Among experts, there is also debate about how it could have happened. And they point to a main hypothesis: that, due to some incident, the tunnel boring machine has generated what is known as a chimney.

The residents of the 93 apartments in the Sant Gervasi - la Bonanova neighborhood, evacuated this Tuesday due to the sinkhole caused by the works on line 9 of the metro, will have to remain away from home for a few more days. In statements to journalists, the director general of Mobility Infrastructure of the Department of Territory, Ramon Ramírez, explained that the stability of the buildings must be assessed for three more days. This means that it will not be until Saturday morning that it can be determined whether residents will begin to return to the eight blocks.

It took six years to negotiate the agreement that made it possible, and, if all goes well, it will have taken almost six more to have the new Barcelona Emergency Operations Coordination Centre (Cecor) ready. The mayor, Jaume Collboni, announced this Monday that the City Council's government commission will approve the executive project this Thursday for the Three Chimneys of Paral·lel to host the city's new emergency center, with the aim that the works can begin in the first quarter of 2027 and the building will be completed by the end of 2028. To carry out the transfer and get everything operational, a few more months will be needed.

A major scare this morning in the Sant Gervasi - la Bonanova neighborhood of Barcelona. A sinkhole eight meters in diameter and four meters deep, caused by works on metro line 9, has forced the evacuation of eight buildings on Rubinstein, Teodora Lamadrid, and Sant Gervasi de Cassoles streets. The incident did not cause injuries, but it did force the evacuation of dozens of residents who were at the time in the blocks around the interior courtyard where the sinkhole occurred. In total, 93 apartments are affected, but the exact number of residents living there is currently unknown, and they will have to sleep away from home at least tonight. In total, throughout the day, the social emergency and crisis center has attended to 85 people.

The countdown to save the Ágora Juan Andrés Benítez in Raval continues. On May 14, the eviction of this self-managed space, which is key in the neighborhood's social network, was suspended. The Barcelona City Council and Sareb – owner of the land – were given 60 days to try to find a solution. An interval that, combined with the August holidays, allowed for a way out to be sought in three months. But the weeks are passing without, for now, the Government and the so-called "}bad bank of the State have reached an agreement.

He passes a few meters from the construction of the new Sants station, but the scene seems more like something from another time. From another city. Sitting in the electric wheelchair he uses to get around, Ramon Bruño is easy to see on many mornings. He might seem like just an elderly man enjoying the fresh air on Riego street, but Ramon is waiting for clients. At 89 years old, he is still at the helm of his small barbershop in Sants. And he is, for sure, the oldest barber in Barcelona.

There is now a popular verdict. The Barcelona City Council made public this Wednesday at noon the results of the citizen votes to choose the future ombudsman of the Catalan capital, in which 2,707 people participated. David Bondia won with 2,064 votes (76%), ahead of Gemma Calvet, who obtained 643 (24%). Regarding entity adhesions, Bondia had the endorsement of 25 (81%) and Calvet that of six (19%).

Rubén and Tamara were two of the thousands of Barcelona residents who, on May 15th last year, were awaiting the draw for the largest public housing promotion to date in the city: that of Illa Glòries. He, from the apartment where they lived in El Carmel, and she, from her job at a school. Both were eagerly following the coming and going of numbers. "Suddenly, we saw it clearly. We had won," Rubén still recalls with a smile. "We thought it would be impossible, that our number wouldn't come up. But we won the lottery," he adds.

For a long time, housing has become one of the country's main challenges. Often, however, the debate is reduced to figures. Those that refer to how many apartments need to be built. Those that tell us about the increase in the price per square meter, whether for purchase or rent. Even those that talk about how many more people can live in a specific place. There is also an approach to the issue from another perspective. What are these homes like? Have they changed much compared to how they were built twenty years ago? What should the buildings of the future be like?

One of the modernist treasures on Passeig de Gràcia will reopen to the public. The Barcelona City Council plenary session gave the green light this Friday to the comprehensive special plan for the development of the uses of Casa Lleó Morera, which will allow this iconic building by Lluís Domènech i Montaner to reopen as a museum. This will put an end to a decade in which the building—owned by Núñez y Navarro—has been closed to the public. The vote went ahead with the support of PSC, Junts, PP, and Vox, and the abstention of Barcelona en Comú and ERC.

In late July 2025, Sigrid received the first notification from the Barcelona City Council. When she read it, she began to tremble and had an anxiety attack. Forty-five years after buying the apartment, the council of the Catalan capital informed her that her home could not be used as a dwelling, as municipal archives state that the building has industrial use. Like her, the sixty or so residents of this building on Rosselló street – in the Eixample Left – have lived in limbo ever since. "My first lawyer told me: 'You could come home and find everything sealed, and not be able to enter. They can kick you out of your home,'" recounts Sigrid. From the City Council, however, they assure that efforts are being made to avoid this extreme.

The Government took an essential step this Tuesday to advance the planned investments in mobility infrastructure for the next decade. The President of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, announced that the executive has given the green light to the new investment plan that should allow it to allocate more than 4,300 million euros from now until 2036 to update a network that suffers from the investment deficit of the last decade. To achieve this goal, the Government has approved the update and expansion of the Program for Commissioning of Actions (PEA), a document without which works cannot be put out to tender. "We are making a quantitative and qualitative leap," said the President of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, this Tuesday during the closing of a congress organized by Forbes in Barcelona.

Gemma Calvet (Barcelona, 1966) has a long career as a lawyer specializing in human rights. For ten years director of the AMB's Transparency office, she also served as a member of Parliament for a time. Now she aims to be the new ombudsman of Barcelona. A race she considers unequal because her adversary, David Bondia, continues to serve as ombudsman in the meantime.

David Bondia (Barcelona, 1969) has been the Ombudsman of Barcelona since 2021. A professor of international law and an expert in human rights, he is now running for re-election for a second term in which he wants to consolidate the work done so far. A race in which he competes with Gemma Calvet.

The Barcelona City Council has reported a firefighter to the Prosecutor's Office for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman, who woke up disoriented at the Zona Franca fire station. In an emergency press conference, the second deputy mayor for Security, Albert Batlle, explained that on Monday, June 8, they became aware of the events and activated all mechanisms, both internal – with the suspension of salary and employment of the member of the corps – and external – with the transfer of the case to the public ministry.

The fourth deputy mayor of Barcelona City Council, Jordi Valls, has cooled down this Wednesday the possibility of the council buying the Centre de la Vila in the short term. After, "as reported by ARA, the State—owner of the center through Mercasa—could not find a buyer for the commercial center of the Vila Olímpica, Valls has not closed the door to the council potentially acquiring the space in the future, but has emphasized the "extraordinary difficulties and risks" that the operation would entail. Firstly, he warned, beyond the purchase cost, updating the facility could have an extra cost for the municipal coffers "of between 25 and 30 million euros".