New semester of green numbers for CaixaBank, which has closed the first six months of 2026 with a net profit of 3,203 million euros, 8.5% more than in the same period last year. This was detailed this Wednesday by the company's CEO, Gonzalo Gortázar, during the presentation of the entity's results held in Valencia.

Discomfort, repetitive checks on the mobile phone and anguish at not knowing what they will find when the flames allow them to access their municipalities. Four days after the start of the fire that has already scorched 10,000 hectares of the Espadà mountain range - in a perimeter of up to 75.5 km -, a green lung and an identity symbol of the regions of Castelló, the atmosphere in the pavilion of the Valencian town of Nules is one of exhaustion. Also contradictory feelings due to the desire to regain normality and the fear of realizing that what was once a natural treasure is now just ash. "I'm not ready to go back and see it all burnt, I know I'll need time," summarizes Yolany Dávila, a resident of La Vilavella.

Race against time to try to stabilize the fire that since Saturday has been devouring the Espadà mountain range, the green lung of the north of the Valencian Country and an identity symbol of the regions of Castelló. So far, the fire has burned more than 8,500 hectares, has reached a perimeter of 72 kilometers and has forced the evacuation of 16,000 people from 18 towns and the confinement of 64,000 — from the cities of Onda, la Vall d'Uixó and Betxí —. This Monday evening, it was confirmed that 6,000 residents from four neighborhoods in la Vall d’Uixó could return home, although they had to remain confined until this Tuesday at eight in the morning. At an early hour, restrictions in other towns will also be assessed.

Will it be in September when the PP designates Juanfran Pérez Llorca as the conservatives' candidate for next year's regional elections or is Alberto Núñez Feijóo fighting for an alternative to the current president of the Generalitat? This is the debate that has been ongoing in the Valencian Community for months and has only weakened the leadership of a head of the Consell who carries the burden of not having been chosen by the affiliates, of not having won an election, and of having to listen almost every week to the criticisms of former president Francisco Camps who claims to be the electoral poster.

Breath of fresh air for the Valencian Ford plant, which has guaranteed its short-term continuity: thanks to an agreement with the Chinese automotive company Geely, they will create a joint venture and share ownership of the factory.

It was not the first territory where the PP and Vox agreed to a joint government, as Castilla y León had done a year and four months earlier, but the Valencian Community will indeed be the first autonomous community to include the criterion of "national priority" in its budgets. Specifically, in various allocations for the granting of social aid.

The scourge of sexist violence strikes the State again and the police are investigating two possible sexist crimes that allegedly took place in the last few hours in Castilla-La Mancha and Andalusia. Initially, a third case in the Valencian Community had been added, which has been dismissed after the autopsy attributed the death to natural causes.

At 11:37 p.m. on the night of the storm, former Valencian president Carlos Mazón informed the mayoress of Valencia, María José Catalá, that there were already "dozens of dead." This is stated in the WhatsApp messages that the PP leader has provided to the summary of the judicial case being investigated in the Catarroja court, and to which ARA has had access.

A 51-year-old woman and her 20-year-old daughter were murdered this Thursday in the Canyada del Fenollar area of Alicante, presumably at the hands of the father of the family, aged 53. The man has been arrested by the Civil Guard for these events, which are being investigated as a possible case of gender-based violence.

"The PP proved that it is interested in power and not in the victims", summarizes Enric Chulio. On July 3, 2006, he lost his wife in the tragic Valencia metro accident, the largest in Spain and the second in Europe. 43 people died and another 47 were injured. To the suffering of the absence of loved ones, the relatives had to add the pain of indifferent courts, passive media, and an indifferent citizenry. Also for a Valencian government that belittled them to the point that the then president of the Generalitat, Francisco Camps, refused to receive them. Two decades after the tragedy, the balance is less painful. "After a bitter period of many years, the support of the people and a conviction sentence arrived, which relieved us", summarizes Chulio, who has been one of the three presidents of the association of relatives.

The delegate of the Spanish government in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé, stated this Monday that it would have been counterproductive for the State to have declared a national emergency and taken over the management of the emergency on the day of the storm in the Valencian Community against the will of the Generalitat. She said this this Monday in the investigation commission of the Congress of Deputies on the catastrophe.

"I want to lead a left-wing front in Catalonia, with ERC as the driving force." Gabriel Rufián has retracted the words he uttered a few weeks ago in Madrid, in which he showed himself willing to lead the left-wing front he proposes at the state level: "If my presence can help, I am willing. Of course," he declared, although he made it clear that it must be the progressive parties as a whole that agree on the visible face of the project." From Valencia, this Friday he defended leading this front, but only in Catalonia. In this way, the ERC spokesperson in Congress has taken a further step in the defense of the great progressive alliance in an event with the former regional vice-president and Compromís candidate for the Valencia City Council, Mónica Oltra. In fact, the republican leader has added a new ally to his proposal to the point that Oltra revealed that the pact with Sumar, Podem, Esquerra Unida and Compromís is already a reality in the city of Valencia and "almost" in the Valencian Country.

For more than 10 years, neither the Superior Court of Justice nor any Provincial Court of the Valencian Community has published a ruling in Valencian. This has been denounced by the Ecologist Association Agró, which laments that, along with Navarre, the Valencian Community is the autonomy where its co-official language is least used in the courts.

Sevilla footballer Rafa Mir has been sentenced by the Provincial Court of Valencia to 8 and a half years in prison for sexual assault and another offense of injury, as reported this Monday by the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community. The striker was arrested and released on bail after the complaint by a 21-year-old girl at the time of the events, who stated that the player and a friend of his, also footballer Pablo Jara, had sexually assaulted two women at the former's home in the town of Bétera on the night of August 31, 2024. As a consequence of the attack, both victims required hospital assistance. The events occurred when the player was on loan to Valencia. This season, the attacker has played on loan at Elche, where he has played 27 matches and scored eight goals, and has been a key player for the team's survival.

The pleasure longed for by many people to swim on a beach without the fear of being stung by a jellyfish is not yet a reality, but it is getting closer and closer. The latest step in this direction has been taken by the research group on Management and Restoration of Terrestrial and Marine Ecosystems (GRE) at the University of Alicante, which has developed a device that prevents these invertebrates from reaching the coast by generating electromagnetic fields.

The former president of the Valencian Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, sent his advisors a message early on the morning of the storm that it was necessary to "flood the media with data" to give the impression of "being alert" and having "control" of the situation, a circumstance that would show that the former head of the Council was aware of the danger of the day. Despite this, he maintained a lunch of almost four hours with the journalist Maribel Vilaplana and did not go to the Cecopi until 8:28 PM, three and a half hours after the start of the emergency committee. This is recorded in the messages exchanged in the WhatsApp group of the Valencian government, which Mazón initiated at 8:15 AM and in which the last to send a message is the head of Infrastructures, Vicente Martínez Mus, who does so at 11:53 PM, regarding the road situation.

It was born to end the linguistic conflict despite the skepticism of many university and secessionist sectors; it has coexisted with constant criticism from the People's Party, and now survives the virulent attacks of Vox thanks to the shield granted by the Statute of Autonomy, but with the fear of being financially suffocated (both conservative parties have announced that in 2026 they will again cut its budget by 25%). The creation of the Valencian Academy of the Language (AVL), which turns 25 this year, is one of the few cases in which Valencian society has been able to weave consensus in recent years. It is also, however, an example of the many challenges it faces, such as achieving the survival of the institution and, above all, avoiding the disappearance of the language.

The football club of the Valencian municipality of Bonrepòs i Mirambell (Horta Nord) has opened an investigation to clarify whether an erotic show was organized with the participation of a woman who stripped during the celebration of one of its youth teams (16, 17 and 18 years old) which, moreover, took place in a municipal facility. The entity has already taken precautionary measures against the person responsible for the institution who would have promoted or allowed the performance.

The judge of the case has rejected summoning former Valencian president Carlos Mazón as a witness after the Provincial Court of Valencia ruled in favor of the former head of the Consell and accepted his involvement in the case. The court, in a decision supported by the Prosecutor's Office, considered that the now conservative deputy has the right to this protection because the investigation may provide information that could lead to his future indictment. Unlike a witness, who is obliged to tell the truth, if he were summoned in the future as a defendant, he could, for example, lie and not answer all parties, without consequences for himself.

The indefinite strike of teachers in the Valencian Community is heading into its fourth week with growing tension and almost blocked negotiations. Also with a standoff with the Spanish government delegation, which has initiated the procedure to open disciplinary proceedings against the National Police officer who this Sunday assaulted a teacher who was demonstrating at the gates of the Ministry of Education to ask the regional government to accept the teachers' demands. In the video shared on social media, the woman, a 68-year-old retired teacher, is seen walking down the street amidst the protests. Then, an officer, whose head is covered with a helmet, runs towards her, pushes her violently from behind, and knocks her to the ground.