The main police hypothesis, as explained by the Minister of the Interior herself, Núria Parlon, is that the driver who fled from the police in Sant Martí this Sunday morning and ended up crashing head-on into a car stopped at a traffic light – causing his death and that of the other driver – was drugged. The co-driver of the car stopped at the traffic light, a woman, was admitted in serious condition to the Hospital del Mar, but her life is not in danger. The investigation has been taken over by the Barcelona Urban Guard and they have not yet been able to identify the driver fleeing from the police. The car had French plates, but the young man driving it was undocumented. For the police, it is most likely that he fled because he was drugged and therefore did not want to be stopped. However, they want to identify him to know if he also had any other pending motivation.

The heat gives no respite and this Monday, despite the thermometer dropping in many regions, the heatwave conditions have continued, with very marked mugginess on the coast. Only in areas of the Pyrenees, the northeast interior, and the central pre-coastal region has it cooled down more thanks to afternoon showers and thunderstorms which, in some cases, have been accompanied by hail or sleet. For example, the heavy downpour that left 70 l/m² in Santa Coloma de Farners (Selva) suddenly dropped the mercury from almost 36 ºC maximum to 18 ºC. In Camprodon (Ripollès) more than 45 l/m² have accumulated.

The core of the warm air mass affecting us these days continues to move away towards Eastern Europe and its effects will begin to weaken from today due to the passage of a frontal tail. In fact, during Sunday afternoon and night, showers appeared, especially in Ponent and the Pyrenees, which brought little precipitation and strong gusts of wind. However, the thermometer still rose considerably this weekend and the heat peaks have been notable, with a maximum of up to 39.4 °C yesterday in the city of Lleida or 38.8 °C in Albesa, in La Noguera (at the end of this information you will find the highest maximums reached yesterday).

Room for 350 euros plus 300 euros for registration. The formula is repeated on advertising websites and exemplifies how complicated it is to register without a rental contract. Ángela (she doesn't want to give her surname) spent two years trying to get the owner who rented her a shared room in an apartment in Barcelona's Horta neighborhood to register her and, desperate due to the refusals, she went on Facebook and immediately a range of possibilities opened up for her to register in another dwelling without living there. She says she paid 300 euros, and two years later she had the "surprise" that they were asking for 150 more for the renewal. "Desperation makes you end up paying what they ask for," states this Colombian woman with a stable job and no record with social services.

Two men have died in a tragic road accident this Sunday morning in Barcelona. According to police sources, a vehicle fleeing the police in the wrong direction collided head-on with another car that was stopped at a traffic light. Both the reckless driver, who was around 30 years old, and the driver of the stopped vehicle, aged 58, lost their lives in the accident. The passenger of the second car was also injured and was taken in serious condition to the Hospital del Mar, where she has been stabilized. Her life is not in danger.

The mass of warm air that is affecting us these days is losing strength and will move away towards the center of Europe. However, the heat is still intense and, once again, we have registered values close to 38°C in some regions of Ponent and Empordà. For example, in Cabanes they reached 38.7°C yesterday and in Lleida, up to 38.6°C. During the rest of the weekend we will continue under the effects of the anticyclonic ridge and the incursion of very warm air and dust in suspension from North Africa. Next week the thermometers will drop, but the latest maps reduce the possibility of a forceful cooling.

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.

Although the heatwave has technically ended and we haven't reached 40°C in Catalonia for two days, the fact is that the heat remains very intense everywhere. Yesterday there was a torrid peak in the northeast, where, as in Ponent, 38°C was reached, in Girona municipalities such as Cabanes, la Bisbal d'Empordà or the Darnius-Boadella reservoir. A suffocating atmosphere with marked humidity on the coast, which will continue throughout this last weekend of June, with values ​​still more than five degrees above the average in many cases. All this with sun, calm and afternoon showers only tomorrow in the Pyrenees.

The mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni, has withdrawn in extremis from the agenda of this Friday's plenary session a proposal for a "productivity bonus" in salary matters. The bonus was aimed at 800 City Council officials who hold the category of “command”, a position characterized by organizing and being in charge of other municipal workers. "They not only manage processes, but also articulate the organization," assures the document detailing the characteristics of this new bonus. The objective, according to the council, is to value the work of the 800 commanders and could mean an increase of up to 5% of the base salary, regardless of what the worker previously earned.

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.

Temperatures dropped yesterday inland, and for the first time this week, 40 ºC were no longer reached anywhere. Only 38ºC were exceeded in Ponent as the highest figures of the day. On the other hand, in parts of the coast and pre-coast, this decrease was not noticed. Technically, we have left the heatwave behind, but the heat remains intense and fully summery, with heavy mugginess on the coast and values clearly above usual for this time of year. In fact, tonight has been warmer than previous ones, with tropical lows in many places and scorching in some coastal spots, highlighting the 26.8 ºC minimum in Barcelona's Raval neighborhood.

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.

Groups of parents of students, residents of Tres Torres and Bonanova, PP and Vox have demonstrated against the project to convert the building that Antoni Gaudí built for the Teresianes on Ganduxer street in Barcelona in 1890 into a museum dedicated to the architect. They do not want visitors or tourists because they say it will break the tranquility of a residential neighborhood, bring crime, and harm the daily life of the school.

The heat has been the protagonist this Saint John's Eve, one of the warmest since records began. The temperature again exceeded 40°C in Ponent yesterday for the umpteenth consecutive day, although it is already far from the 42 or 43°C recorded on Monday and Tuesday, when we experienced the peak of the heatwave. The temperature will begin to drop progressively from today, although in no case will we notice a significant cooling and we will remain with values above the climatic average. Of course: 40°C will no longer be reached anywhere for the first time this week, and the heatwave is officially declared over. The maps indicate that a more substantial cooling could arrive next week.

The world we live in, they tell us, is as it should be, there is no better one. We must adapt to it whether we want to or not. Fortunes are so enormous, corporations are so gigantic that they would seem to be omnipotent deities and not mere organizations run by people as human as you and me. Forgetfulness and ignorance of recent history make us believe that it is the force of progress that has brought us here, to this grim scenario in which it seems we have decided to initiate, without having formally agreed, a mass suicide. Or what else does a society that stops reproducing do? A human group that does not perpetuate itself is a group that chooses its own extinction, thus resolving Camus' dilemma because for a long time the only philosophical problem has not been individual (suicide) but collective (stopping having children). But how are we to decide on this act of blind faith in the future, of desperate hope, if it turns out that the bonds that have always sustained us have weakened to historic lows? Without a solid family or relationships that can withstand the pressure of a system of fierce competition between individuals for jobs, housing, social benefits, for life itself, without ties that escape what can be bought and sold, how are we to embark on the mad adventure of bringing a child into the world? In the city of Barcelona, birth rates have reportedly fallen to 1920 levels. And still thanks, I would say, because this is a very hostile environment for children. Firstly, because, due to the big housing problem, many families who have decided to have children have moved away, and secondly, because the neighborhoods that might be more suitable for living with children are the ones most liked by tourists and expats who have driven us out. My heart breaks every time I return to Gràcia and walk through the streets and squares where my children used to play. Now there are more dogs, with their groomers and clothing boutiques. Yes, progress must have been this: that in a city like ours there are more dogs than children, that animals are dressed and taken in strollers and we give them exquisite delicacies to eat while between 25% and 30% of the child population lives in poverty. That on a well-known music streaming platform, the advertisement for an apartment rental platform appears, threatening to leave Barcelonians without festivals if they continue with the obsession of wanting decent housing. Openly and brazenly, the spot asks us to imagine that there wouldn't be enough tourist accommodation for those who come to have a good time, that then we wouldn't be able to enjoy all these incredible concerts whose tickets cost more than a nursery monthly fee or what a family eats in a whole month.

The heat has once again been very intense and torrid in recent hours, despite a slight decrease compared to the temperature peak on Monday, which reached up to 43 ºC as the most notable figure in Vilanova de Segrià. The third day of the heatwave once again pushed thermometers above 35 ºC in much of the interior, with over 40 ºC in Ponent and the Ebro interior. Notable figures include the 41.4 ºC reached in Alcarràs, 41.3 in Lleida, and 41.2 in Alfarràs (Segrià) as the highest readings on Tuesday. No records have been registered in Catalonia, but they have in France, as Monday afternoon, Monday night to Tuesday, and Tuesday have been the warmest in history since records began in the neighboring country, with numerous heat records and temperatures clearly above 40 ºC.

The heatwave has peaked in recent hours. Temperatures rose even further yesterday, with between 8 and 13 degrees above average in inland areas and the Pyrenees, and many maximums ranged between 35 and 40 ºC in the pre-coastal areas and inland. But these figures were surpassed in Ponent, as well as in parts of the Ebro and other inland areas. The extraordinary 43 ºC recorded in Vilanova de Segrià stand out, which is the highest temperature reached so far this year in Catalonia. The peak of tropical and torrid minimums was also experienced in many areas (you will find all the most notable data on the extreme heat of recent hours at the end of this information).

Junts is in turmoil the day after Jordi Martí's victory in the primaries in Barcelona, which has made him the party's candidate in the municipal elections in the capital. He was not the leadership's man, quite the opposite; prominent members of the top brass maneuvered to boost the officialist Pilar Calvo, a deputy in Congress and president of the National Council. But the operation failed: Xavier Trias' right-hand man has won and, with him, the clearly convergent DNA. And this has caused an upheaval in the formation, as this newspaper has confirmed from various sources.

The heat has intensified in recent hours, coinciding with the start of astronomical summer on Sunday, the day when maximum temperatures already reached and exceeded 40°C for the first time this year in the regions of Ponent. Notably, 41°C were reached in the city of Lleida (Segrià) and in El Poal (Pla d'Urgell). And the night was torrid in some coastal areas and in elevated zones of the coast and pre-coast, with minimums that did not drop below 25°C. This situation will continue and worsen today, with even more intense heat and the possibility of exceeding 42°C in Ponent and the Ebro interior. A first heatwave of the year that peaks this Monday, with extraordinarily high values, and this situation will accompany us, at least, until Tuesday or Wednesday.

Jordi Martí Galbis wins Junts primaries in Barcelona and will be the party's mayoral candidate in the Catalan capital. Martí has won by 253 votes (40.29%) against the other candidates. Pilar Calvo came in second place with 184 votes (29.30%), while Jaume Alonso-Cuevillas came in third, with 117 votes (18.63%). In last place, Glòria Freixa, who obtained 70 votes (11.15%). In total, 934 militants were called to participate, of whom 628 voted, representing a 67.24% turnout. Jordi Martí was not the candidate Carles Puigdemont's leadership was backing, but the current leader of the municipal group in Barcelona decided to step forward regardless. His victory is, therefore, a warning to the Junts leadership.