Football fans in Lleida have not found peace for years. But this summer they may regain hope. For years, football in the capital of Segrià has been marked by the economic and institutional problems of the heir team of the lifelong Lleida, the club that reached the First Division on two occasions, the last one in the 90s. Since then, debts, lawsuits, disappointments, and economic failures. The last one this summer, as the team that played in Tercera RFEF could not find a buyer who agreed to pay the debts it carried and had to close shop. A chaotic end, as a foreign buyer appeared who turned out to be a scammer. A chaotic end, as a foreign buyer appeared who turned out to be a scammer. "Everything has happened to us," says journalist Juanjo Lecumberri.

A month ago, on June 3rd, the body of a woman appeared floating in the Segre River near Lleida. According to sources consulted by this newspaper, her death is being investigated as a criminal death. That is, as a homicide. After weeks trying to identify the victim, the Mossos d'Esquadra finally decided this Thursday morning to make public an image of the woman generated with artificial intelligence and to ask for citizen collaboration.

The town where it hit hardest the serious accident of a bus this Wednesday in Lleida is Aitona. Both the driver and the instructor accompanying her live in this farming town and many of the passengers in the crashed vehicle were also going to work, especially in fruit warehouses or to pick in the immense fruit fields of Baix Segrià. This midday, the town's residents approached the wife of the injured driver, Marcelo, who lost a leg in the accident and is still hospitalized at the Arnau de Vilanova Hospital, to give her encouragement. "They are a beautiful family," a neighbor summarized.

Life goes on. At the same time. At the same place. But on a different bus. Work never stops. This Thursday, at seven in the morning, Angi, José, and Oukakalong boarded the Lleida - la Granja d'Escarp bus again, as they had done on Wednesday, the day when, suddenly, the vehicle they were traveling in crashed into the wall of the Diputació de Lleida: the "most serious" accident in the city's history, as described by the mayor of the capital of Segrià, Fèlix Larrosa. Of the 44 injured, nine people remain hospitalized, three of them in the ICU. Of these, two are in critical condition and one is stable within the severity.

Ferran's boulevard in Lleida has become this Wednesday the scene of one of the most serious traffic accidents ever remembered in the city. A bus with 55 passengers, which covered the route between Lleida and La Granja d'Escarp, lost control shortly before a quarter to eight in the morning and ended up crashing against the facade of the Diputació de Lleida for reasons that are still being investigated.

When we return from a stay outside Lleida (whether longer or shorter) and we see the profile of La Seu Vella on the horizon welcoming us, we feel deep inside that very local and popular: “I’m home!” Even if it seems unbelievable, we even say it when the temperatures climb above 43 °C. Mind you: with our mouths more pursed and fans in hand. In any case, the emotional bond we have with the city’s most iconic monument is glaring. La Seu Vella is a symbol of Lleida. It is pride. It is love. Yes! All in all… do we know it well enough? And the rest of the city’s heritage?

The Generalitat Firefighters have now controlled the fire at a fruit company in Lleida that began on Monday night and which forced the inhabitants of the Vila Montcada-Ciutat Jardí neighborhood, about 1,300 people, to be confined. The fire has burned the facilities of the Arcofrut fruit cooperative, which is next to another fruit cooperative. According to the head of the Lleida Emergency Region, inspector Juan Josep Bellostas, all evacuated people have been able to return to their homes and the deployment of up to 45 crews that was set up on Monday evening is now being scaled down. In total, eight crews will remain, with the command system and a drone team, while awaiting the complete consumption of all fuel.

There are territories that are explained with words. And there are others that are better understood through the senses. Lleida is part of this second group: a land rich in contrasts, marked by the climate, the farming tradition, and a gastronomy that turns local produce into cultural heritage.Today, as travelers seek more authentic, sustainable experiences connected to the land, the lands of Lleida are reclaiming a different way of doing tourism. An invitation to slow down, discover open landscapes, share meals, and reconnect with what is ours. Because choosing Lleida is also choosing landscape, choosing flavor, and choosing quality and authenticity.

Just one month after leaving prison, the man who left the Ponent penitentiary center with a high risk of reoffending has acted again. The Guardia Urbana of Lleida arrested him this Friday afternoon for attempting to rob a supermarket in the capital of Segrià, according to sources consulted by ARA. The arrested man allegedly drew a weapon —which appears to be a replica— and left the premises without managing to take anything. The police located him an hour later in another part of Lleida.

Lleida CF has reported that it has reached an agreement with an investor that "guarantees the continuity, stability, and future growth of the club". The club, which has just been relegated to Tercera RFEF after years of struggling to avoid disappearing, has celebrated a step that "is a decisive step that opens a new stage full of enthusiasm and ambition for the entire blue family, and that must allow the viability plan to be fulfilled within the framework of the insolvency proceedings in which the club is involved".

Two weeks ago, Lleida CF announced that it had reached an agreement with an investor that guaranteed "the continuity, stability, and future growth of the club." The club, which has just been relegated to Tercera RFEF after years of struggling to survive, celebrated. On the day of the last match, the fans congratulated themselves, assuming that an inferno was ending. But everything has turned into a nightmare. The club's vice-president, Marc Torres, announced today that the investor was actually a scammer. In fact, Lleida has already filed a complaint with the Mossos d'Esquadra for fraud and document forgery against this foreign businessman who was in the city for a few weeks, met with the club, and showed documentation that suggested he would be the new owner. This has not been the case.

The CUP usually reconsiders its decisions after a failure. It did so after losing the two seats it had in Congress in the last general elections. Then, it agreed to park its participation in the general elections and, if there isn't a 180-degree turn, it will not field a list in 2027. Also in next year's municipal elections, it could make a painful decision that the rest of the parties with a presence in Parliament will undoubtedly not make: not to run in one of the four provincial capitals.

Just over a year remains until the next municipal elections, and in most municipalities, parties are already pulling strings to nominate their candidates and configure their lists. In the four Catalan capitals, a good portion of the candidates have already announced if they will run again, and new names entering the municipal dispute have also been revealed, but there are still unresolved unknowns.

After Àngel Ros tried it during his time as mayor of Lleida, the PSC is once again trying to ban the burqa and niqab in the capital of El Segrià at the hands of socialist mayor Fèlix Larrosa. Amidst the rise of the far-right, which has put the ban on the burqa and the fight against Islam on the table in recent years, the government of the Paeria de Lleida presented this Tuesday the proposal for an ordinance on civility and coexistence, which foresees, among other things, prohibiting the use of the full-face veil in public spaces and municipal offices. The previous attempt to veto the burqa clashed with the Supreme Court, which struck down the initiative by considering that a city council could not regulate it.

With more than 450,000 inhabitants, Lleida will not have any football team playing in the top four categories of football next season. Smaller towns enjoy professional football and Lleida does not. Atlètic Lleida, the recently created club that has not yet managed to win over fans, will hardly avoid relegation to Tercera RFEF. With four games left, they are eight points from the relegation zone. And Lleida CF, the team that defends the long football tradition of the former Unió Esportiva Lleida, is precisely last in Tercera RFEF. Surely, they will also go down. In a city where basketball thrives, football suffers. But in the stands of the Tercera RFEF grounds, in the darkest moment, many fans have discovered many things. They have found beauty, despite the pain.

In just one year, the amount of cocaine detected in Barcelona's wastewater has practically tripled, according to the latest study by the European Union Agency for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EUDA). During 2025, the presence of this substance in Barcelona's wastewater was 185% higher than in 2024, thus returning almost to 2017 levels after several years of decline. However, Lleida ranks higher than Barcelona in absolute terms, after Tarragona, which until now led that ranking in the StateTarragona, in addition to being the leading city in Spain, had traditionally been the second European urban center with the most cocaine in its wastewater, second only to the Flemish city of Antwerp, home to one of Europe's main cocaine entry ports. However, the Catalan city has decided to withdraw from the project. Furthermore, Antwerp no longer leads this ranking; that position has been taken by Middlesbrough in northern England. The second city in Europe is Bristol, followed by Lleida, the leading city in Spain. In fact, the capital of the Segrià region is surprising because, unlike the two previous cases, it lacks a port. Nevertheless, Lleida has more cocaine in its wastewater than Antwerp, Granada, or Barcelona, ​​which ranks fourteenth.

His name is Mario Casterás and he is 65 years old. This Wednesday he entered Ponent prison as a confessed perpetrator. of the murder of a woman last Sunday in LleidaHe arrived at the police station covered in blood and confessed to having just killed a 53-year-old woman with whom he shared an apartment, using a knife. They were not in a romantic relationship, and the incident is not being investigated as a case of gender-based violence. Casterás has a long criminal record and has served several prison sentences. In 2000, he killed an inmate at the same prison where he has now been incarcerated, Ponent; a crime that earned him a 16-year sentence. Specifically, he attacked a prisoner with an iron bar in the gym showers. He was jealous because he learned that his partner was also sending letters to that inmate. At the time, Casterás was already in prison for a violent robbery. Over the years, he has been held in several Catalan prisons to serve this second sentence for homicide: first Ponent and then Quatre Camins, and also Brians 1 and 2, Lledoners, and Puig de les Basses. However, his first conviction dates back to 1980 for a series of robberies with his brother. His most recent sentence was also for burglary. He had only been released from Brians 2 prison four months prior, having completed his sentence.

Between twenty and thirty cars are stolen each week, and the same number of robberies occur daily in the Lleida region, "some very violent." Ninety percent of those arrested for these crimes are of North African origin. These are some of the figures published on Tuesday by the Catalan Alliance of the Lands of Lleida on social media. Silvia Orriols' party put numbers to the crimes committed in this area and, once again, targeted the Muslim community in its offensive against people from Morocco. The Lleida Municipal Police (Guardia Urbana) took less than an hour to deny these figures, which the far-right party claimed had been provided to them by sources within the force itself. "We categorically deny the data you are disseminating and that it is official information from the Lleida Municipal Police. What you are stating is not true in any case. We ask that you correct yourself and stop spreading falsehoods. Thank you," the Lleida local police responded from their official account.

The Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) arrested a 65-year-old man in Lleida on Sunday as the suspected perpetrator of the violent death of a woman, according to the police force. The incident occurred at a residence on Ciudad de Fraga Street in Lleida, and the victim was 53 years old. According to ARA, all indications are that the victim and the suspected perpetrator were not in a relationship, but lived together in the same house. The man voluntarily went to the Mossos police station in the mid-afternoon to confess. The crime occurred in the mid-afternoon, and emergency medical services (SEM) were dispatched to the scene. Although paramedics arrived at the residence, they were unable to save the woman's life and could only confirm her death. The Criminal Investigation Division of Ponent has taken charge of the investigation to clarify its causes and circumstances. The Lleida City Council has issued a statement condemning and expressing condolences for the femicide and has decreed three days of mourning in the municipality. It has also called for a minute of silence at noon on Monday in the Plaça de la Paeria and a protest rally at 7 p.m. This is the second crime to come to light this week, after the Mossos d'Esquadra arrested a 22-year-old man in Barcelona as the suspected perpetrator of the murder of a woman in a bar in Hospitalet de Llobregat.

The first Three Kings' Day gift arrived early this year in the form of snowfall in Catalonia, and many children took to the streets to play in anticipation of the parade on Monday afternoon. The first snowflakes began to fall on Sunday night in the western regions and on the Segarra plateau, but it was during the early hours of Monday morning that the snow spread and intensified, reaching Central Catalonia and accumulating in the areas where it snowed most heavily. The forecast indicates that this picture-postcard landscape will continue for the next few hours thanks to the low temperatures, which will keep the snow on the ground.