It is eleven in the morning and under an almost summery sun and a warm westerly wind, Irene Miralles and Salvador Morató take 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 taking out furniture and appliances ruined by the downpour that, between Sunday night and early 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 in Pego, a farmer found this Tuesday, whose death is still being investigated as to whether it was caused by the heavy downpours. "We were very scared. 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.

Head bowed and covered by a hat and hands on the bell ropes. Francesc Llop sees his profession in the gesture of his profile picture: when the rest of us mortals hear a sound, we lift our heads; a bell ringer, on the other hand, lowers his. The sound may announce a passing bell. The anthropologist and manager of the websitecampaners.com also explains the reason for his hat: it is well known that pigeons have an acquired taste for bell towers.

"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.

The Valencian supermarket cooperative Consum will invest 100 million euros in the construction of a new logistics platform in the city of Barcelona, as reported in a statement issued this Wednesday.

This Monday, the corpse of a man without a head or limbs and in an advanced state of decomposition was found floating off the coast of Sagunto, in Camp de Morvedre, as reported this Wednesday by Efe, citing Civil Guard sources.

The Volkswagen Group, PowerCo and the Chinese company Gotion High-Tech have agreed to "deepen their strategic alliance" through a joint venture for the development and operation of the battery cell gigafactory currently under construction in the town of Sagunto (Valencian Community). In this way, the Chinese manufacturer is investing some 1.1 billion euros to obtain 49% of the gigafactory.

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.

The Civil Guard is investigating a possible racist assault on a man by a large group of youths in the Valencian town of Tavernes de la Valldigna. The events took place last weekend, during the town's festivities, as confirmed by sources from the armed institute. The officers have a video showing the entire scene. The video, which has gone viral on social media due to its chilling images, will serve to identify the participants in the assault and to proceed with their arrest.

The Generalitat's Emergency Coordination Centre (CEE) has activated the red alert for high temperatures on the north and south coasts of Valencia, as well as on the north coast of Alicante. It has also activated the orange alert in the north and south interior of Valencia and in the interior and south coast of Alicante.

The forest fire in Tírig, in the Alt Maestrat region, has been controlled by emergency services after four days of intense work and several meetings by the Cecopi, attended by the Minister of Emergencies and Interior, Juan Carlos Valderrama; the Government's delegate in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé, and the President of the Generalitat, Juanfran Pérez Llorca.

The PSPV-PSOE has reported that the Popular Party's Council left 21% of the budget allocated for hiring forest firefighters unexecuted during 2025, a year in which the staff of the Valencian Society for Integrated Management of Emergency Services (SGISE) only increased by two employees, going from 889 to 891 forest firefighters. This was communicated this Sunday, August 2nd, by the socialist spokesperson for Emergencies in the Corts, Alicia Andújar, who stated that “the problem is no longer just the 14 million cut that the service suffered in 2024, but the Council's inability to execute resources and reinforce an essential operation”.

"We signed the agreement because [the case] has to be closed somehow and the agreement reached is still a recognition of responsibility. Six months of trial would have been a torment and, moreover, with a wide margin of uncertainty, because all possibilities were open, from complete acquittal to complete conviction." This is the justification that Enric Chulio, former president of the Association of Victims of the Metro Accident of July 3, 2006, gave to ARA minutes before entering the room where the sentence has been delivered, which has convicted four former executives and acquitted four others. The association has finally joined the agreement signed last week between the Prosecutor's Office and the defenses of the eight defendants, and has allowed the conclusion of a process opened 14 years ago.

Graduate in Philosophy and Letters (Catalan Philology section) from the University of Alicante, Verònica Cantó Doménech (Cocentaina, 1964) has been the president of the Valencian Language Academy (AVL) since 2022. We speak with her at a delicate moment for the institution and for Valencian due to the policy that the Popular Party and Vox have begun to implement since their arrival at the Generalitat just over six months ago.

Alberto Núñez Feijóo will have to explain what he discussed with Carlos Mazón on the day of the DANA storm. The judge in Catarroja, who is investigating the case of the torrential rains, decided this Friday to summon him as a witness. The magistrate thus granted the request of the Association of Victims of the October 29th DANA storm, which believes that the Galician politician must explain what the former president of the Valencian Generalitat told him about the management of the catastrophe, given that Feijóo stated that the former head of the Valencian government had informed him of the measures that "have been reported in the DANA storm." Furthermore, the magistrate has asked the Popular Party leader to voluntarily submit, within five days, the list of calls, messages, emails, and WhatsApps that Mazón sent him that day. The PP president reacted to the summons by defending his role as leader of the opposition, stating that it was limited to demanding that the Spanish government declare a national emergency. Furthermore, at a campaign event in Badajoz, the PP leader again accused Spanish President Pedro Sánchez of having abandoned the citizens affected by the disaster.

Salomé Pradas and José Miguel Basset. As expected, these were the two main individuals singled out by the Deputy Director General of Emergencies for the Valencian government, Jorge Suárez, who on Thursday defended himself in statements before the investigating judge, claiming that on the day of the DANA storm he had already proposed the use of ES-Alert on two occasions before 6:00 p.m. Specifically, at 5:15 p.m. and 5:38 p.m. This information was obtained by ARA from sources present at his appearance. This data confirms the information provided by other witnesses present at the Cecopio and by the videos of the meeting These documents, which have been added to the case piecemeal and against the wishes of the Generalitat (Catalan government), have been incorporated into the case. In fact, according to the official's testimony to the judge, he had completed a draft message by 5:45 p.m. The draft, which was reportedly written in a notebook, asked residents to move to higher ground in their homes—advice that was omitted from the first ES-Alert sent but included in the second. This warning was intended to alert people of the potential collapse of the Forata reservoir, which regulates the Magro River, but not of the situation in the Poio ravine, whose overflowing was responsible for the vast majority of the deaths.

The new president of the Valencian Generalitat, Juanfran Pérez Llorca, has shaken up the Valencian government, but has respected the foundations laid by Carlos Mazón, whose right-hand man he was in the Valencian Parliament (Les Corts) and the People's Party (PP). The result is a more profound reshuffle than it initially appears, but in which eight ministers remain and three new ones join. One of those who has kept their position is the first vice president, Susana Camarero, who gains the responsibilities for Housing and Employment, retains those for Youth and Equality, and relinquishes those for Social Services, as well as the role of spokesperson. Conversely, one of those affected by the reshuffle is Mazón's personal friend and former Minister of Education, Culture, Universities, and Employment, José Antonio Rovira, who leaves this key portfolio and will assume the Ministry of Economy, Finance, and Public Administration, previously held by the independent and former Ciudadanos leader, Ruth Merino. The new Minister of Education, Culture, and Universities will be María del Carmen Ortí Ferre. She is a career civil servant in the Generalitat's Education Inspection Corps, holds a diploma in Educational Sciences from the University of Valencia, and a degree in Psychopedagogy from the Open University of Catalonia. She currently heads the Popular University of the Valencia City Council. Previously, she served as Deputy Director General of Educational Planning and Private and Subsidized Schools and as Director of the Teacher Training Center in Torrent.

Judge Nuria Ruiz Tobarra, who is presiding over the DANA case, continues to add evidence to an investigation that has been crucial in forcing the resignation of former Valencian president Carlos Mazón. Specifically regarding the actions of the former head of the Valencian government, the judge added to the case on Tuesday the video of the PP leader's entry into the Emergency Coordination Center building in l'Eliana on October 29th. The recording shows the politician from Alicante arriving with his head of communications, Maite Gómez, advisor Josep Lanuza, and two bodyguards. The evidence added today is a key recording for the investigation, as demonstrated by the fact that in February the Valencian government released a screenshot of the video to explain that Mazón's arrival occurred at 8:28 p.m., that is, 17 minutes after the ES-Alert was sent. With this information, the Presidency's department was trying to distance Mazón from the central element of the magistrate's investigation, namely the late (8:11 p.m.) and erroneous alert issued to the public.

As he announced during the investiture session last Thursday, the new president of the Valencian Generalitat, Juanfran Pérez Llorca, began his term by asking for "forgiveness" from the families of the victims of the DANA storm. "Neither on the 29th nor in the days that followed did the public administrations live up to what society deserved," he acknowledged before expressing his hope that his words would foster "reconciliation" within Valencian society. Aware of the extraordinary situation still being experienced by the Valencian Community after the torrential rains, the politician from Finestrat opted for an austere inauguration. It was also non-denominational, as he chose to pledge rather than swear an oath of office. The most moving moment occurred at the beginning when a minute of silence was observed in memory of former president José Luis Olivas, who passed away last Saturday.