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.

Just over a year ago, Núria Gil (Soses, 1981) left the Lleida Provincial Council to take up the position of delegate of the Generalitat (Catalan Government) in the Lleida district. At the provincial level, she was the coordinator of the PSC (Socialist Party of Catalonia) group, and she moved to the regional administration with little more experience than that of her hometown council.

The latest barometer from the Center for Opinion Studies (CEO) has confirmed a widespread feeling In inland Catalonia: the rise of Aliança Catalana (AC) on the Catalan political scene, positioning it as the third strongest force in hypothetical regional elections. But that's not all. In the provinces of Lleida and Girona—from which the party's two current (and only) representatives in the Catalan Parliament hail: Sílvia Orriols, mayor of Ripoll, and Rosa Maria Soberana, from Vinaixa (Les Garrigues)—it would become the leading party. But what are the reasons behind this apparent exponential growth of Aliança in the Girona and Lleida regions?

Franco visits Lleida in 1963. There's a sweet, surreal, Lleida-style lemon grove moment. Lleida welcomes the dictator, and there are posters like this one: "Franco, welcome to Lleida." It's not a linguistic-cultural protest: it's the ceremony of the confusion of a country that has been replaced and is genetically revealing what it truly is. Franco sees the posters as he crosses the bridge in the Rolls-Royce. He glides at flea speed along the bench on Blondel Street that overlooks the Segre River. Spanish flags. Applause. From all those people from Lleida who don't even know how to speak Castilian Spanish and who are striking at what is killing them.

In the context of the energy transition and environmental crisis we have been experiencing for years, the United Nations COP28 Climate Summit held in 2023 agreed to promote the reduction of fossil fuels to combat climate change and transition to renewable energies. Catalonia is committed to biogas and biomethane to reduce emissions, move towards energy independence, and promote a more sustainable circular economy.

Police have arrested a 40-year-old man in Lleida for allegedly sexually assaulting his 21-year-old daughter in the street. The victim's eight-year-old son, brother of the detainee, was also present in the area where the incident occurred. This Monday, the man was brought before a court and, after testifying before the court for violence against women, was released. However, he is under precautionary measures: he cannot approach the victim within 200 meters or communicate with her.

Catalan construction entrepreneur Julio Sorigué died this Tuesday at the age of 92, the company confirmed in a statement. His farewell will take place this Thursday, August 14, at 11 a.m. in the New Cathedral of Lleida.

A seasonal worker died this Monday afternoon while harvesting fruit on a farm in Alcarràs, in the Segrià region, according to ACN reports and ARA. The Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) were alerted around 4:45 p.m., coinciding with the peak of the heat wave and when the temperature in the municipality was around 41 degrees. According to ACN, the man reportedly became dizzy and began to feel ill. Emergency Medical System (SEM) officers were dispatched to a nearby farm where the seasonal worker was working, but when they arrived, he showed no vital signs and they were unable to revive him.

Temperatures reached their peak this Monday. At the height of the second heat wave of the summer in our country, temperatures have already surpassed the levels reached during the first, which occurred in early July, and for the first time this year, temperatures have exceeded 43°C in Catalonia. Specifically, in Vinebre, temperatures reached 43.8°C, which is not only the highest maximum temperature this summer but also the highest heat record in the 27 years of data from this Meteocat meteorological station.

You might think I'm spoiling the surprise, but that's impossible. When you get to The BoscanaThe impact of the entrance is so great that, no matter how much I tell you about it, the shock will be the same. The farm where this Bellvís restaurant is located warns us: here, Lleida's fruit is dressed up for the occasion. The project is beautiful and full of purpose. There are areas where very good work is done, but they struggle to sell themselves. However, at this excellent restaurant, they have no problem proudly serving the produce of their neighbors.

Lleida is a socialist city. At least that's demonstrated by the more than four decades of PSC government in the Paeria, with mayors such as Antoni Siurana, Àngel Ros, and, since the last elections, Fèlix Larrosa. We review with him the first half of a term in which he has governed peacefully with the help of Junts' support.

Just as Lleida is enjoying a golden era for its basketball, with Hiopos in the First Division making its arena a fortress, football on the mainland is mourning. The demise of Lleida FC, the club that inherited the historic UE Lleida, will be made official in the coming days. A new club was born with the colors and values of the previous one, keeping alive the spirit of that old Lleida that played in the First Division. They have become the means to explain, step by step, the dismantling of the institution with a certain cruelty, since everyone knows that its demise seems inevitable, but even these days fans were encouraged to buy club clothing at a discount. A statement announcing that more serious talks had failed, at which point the workers were told to look for work.

The Mossos d'Esquadra arrested this Wednesday the man considered the main perpetrator of the serious injuries suffered by four officers on the night of April 27 to 28 in the Mariola neighborhood of Lleida, where several people They clashed with police after a mass fight between neighborsThe detainee, who is accused of attempted murder, public disorder, and assaulting law enforcement officers, allegedly injured the Catalan police officers by hitting them on the head with an iron bar, according to sources within the force, ARA.

The 2023 municipal elections brought a political change to the city councils of the four Catalan capitals. Girona was the only city to retain a pro-independence government, while the Socialists won the mayoralties of Barcelona, ​​Tarragona, and Lleida. Halfway through their term, the parties with institutional representation are beginning to move toward the 2027 municipal elections. Which candidates will continue and which will not?

The Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) have arrested a 45-year-old man for allegedly killing his father in Els Alamús, in the Segrià region. Catalan police have announced that at 9 a.m. this Friday morning, they received a call from the Emergency Medical System (SEM) warning of a man in cardiac arrest at a home in this small town of fewer than a thousand inhabitants. However, the man showed signs of violence.