A week after the dramatic train accident in Urda (Toledo) –and also the new revelations of the Koldo case–, Pedro Sánchez has returned to the pre-election rallies for November 29th. The Spanish president and leader of the PSOE has chosen Valencia to return to defend the handling of the tragedy by Óscar Puente, now former Minister of Transport. In fact, he highlighted the "dignity and exemplariness" of the politician from Valladolid after he announced his resignation in Congress on Tuesday night. "We have faced the situation with absolute transparency and we have assumed political responsibility with the resignation of a great politician like Óscar Puente," repeated Sánchez, who then insisted on the fact that the progressive leader has stepped aside, unlike a PP that has never been capable of doing so in the face of other tragedies.

"There is plenty of financing available." The CEO of CaixaBank, Gonzalo Gortázar, defended this Friday that the obstacle to housing development in Spain does not come from the entities' capacity to grant mortgages, but rather from the construction deficit and the rise in prices that the sector has been suffering for years. He stated this at the press conference held in Valencia to present the company's results up to September, a period in which the bank earned 4.962 billion euros, 12.9% more than last year.

"We feel total helplessness and defenselessness. We don't know what to do or who to turn to. We have been without an elevator for two years, and my son and I suffer from asthma, and my partner has a torn knee cruciate ligament." The second anniversary of the DANA in the Valencian Country arrives when some scars of the catastrophe remain completely present and many people suffer the consequences every day. This is the case of Nuria Carmona's family, a resident of the Valencian town of Picanya who, despite suffering from a chronic respiratory disease, has to climb the stairs five floors that separate the garage from her home. It is also the case for José Cerdán, a resident of Catarroja who has still not been able to recover his house. In fact, due to a dispute between neighbors, he hasn't even been able to start the works.

It is eleven in the morning and under an almost summery sun and a warm westerly wind, Irene Miralles and Salvador Morató are taking a short break. They are taking advantage of the pleasant temperature, which is already over twenty degrees, to get some air and smoke a few cigarettes after a frantic and exhausting morning. For hours they have not stopped removing furniture and appliances damaged by the downpour that, between Sunday night and Monday morning, flooded several Valencian regions, especially La Safor and La Marina Alta, and caused four victims, one in Sagunt, two in Oliva, and the last one in Pego, a farmer found this Tuesday, whose death is still being investigated to see if it was caused by the heavy downpours. "We were very afraid. It is the third flood I have experienced and until now the water had never entered the house. We are not prepared for what is coming our way", laments Salvador.

"I woke up because it was raining so hard that water was entering our house through the windows, to the point that an inch of water had accumulated in the dining room. And I'm talking about a third floor." Sergi Morell, a resident of Oliva, will not easily forget the DANAAdam, which has left historic records in the Valencian regions of La Safor and La Marina Alta: up to 720 liters per square meter in nearly 36 hours. The episode also caused rivers to overflow, flooded six municipalities, and left hundreds of people trapped in their homes. A count to which the most tragic of balances must be added: as of now, there are three fatalities, a woman and a man from Oliva and another from Sagunto, who had disappeared on Sunday afternoon at the beach where she had been swimming, even though an orange alert for rain and coastal phenomena had been active all day.

"There is a game", defended the president of Acció Cultural, Anna Oliver. "I am optimistic, with the DANA we won the streets", added Gemma Pasqual, president of the Societat Coral El Micalet. "In 2023 some people stayed home, we hope they have learned the lesson", concluded Antonio Royo, delegate of the Plataforma per la Llengua at the traditional October Ninth demonstration, the Day of the Valencian Country, which this year had a participation of 2,000 people according to the Spanish government delegation and a clearly pre-electoral slogan: "Let's win the country".

A meager 6.28% of teaching in Valencian at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) compared to 8.04% in English and 84.79% in Spanish. These are the data made public by the Linguistic Promotion and Normalization Service of the same center and which have been denounced by the Teaching and Research Staff for Valencian (PDIxValencià), a group of professors that has launched a signature collection campaign to demand a reversal of the situation suffered by the native language at the institution.

With selective lapses of memory on the part of the president of the Provincial Council of Valencia, Vicent Mompó, and with silence in the case of the former Minister of Emergencies and Interior Salomé Pradas. Once again, the former head of the Consell Carlos Mazón has received the protection of his former subordinates, who avoided revealing any details about the actions of their former leader in his second appearance before the DANA commission of the Congress. A behavior that is especially striking in the case of Pradas, given that she is charged with the crimes of reckless homicide and reckless injury for the management of a catastrophe that already has 233 fatalities. This Monday, a resident of Catarroja was added to the list, who suffered an intracranial hemorrhage when the force of the water that entered her home knocked her down.

Almost two years after the tragic DANA of 2024, the Generalitat Valenciana has once again been late, and last night it sent an ES-Alert when the rains that affected the province of Valencia had already been torrential for more than an hour. Specifically, at 10:08 p.m., it broadcast a message to all mobile phones in the area informing about the risk of flooding and asking to limit travel, in addition to moving to higher floors if an increase in water level was detected.

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.