Valencia news from The Olive Press, covering the city and province rather than the wider Valencian Community. Coverage spans the political and legal fallout from the region's catastrophic flood disaster, the Fallas festival that defines the city's cultural calendar, crime and organised trafficking through its busy port, and the property market's rapid growth. For related coverage see Castellon, Alicante and Weather.
Tomasina McArdle, 45, and her husband Patrick Tobin, 50, were discovered by their teenage sons on Tuesday afternoon at their rented holiday villa near Valencia.
MORE than 4,000 lightning bolts struck the province during a thunderstorm on Thursday, sparking at least nine forest fires and sending firefighters scrambling to contain
THE Valencian Community endured its hottest-ever night according to modern records with temperatures not falling below 30C in many areas during Wednesday night and Thursday
PEDRO Sanchez has admitted that ‘difficult and complex hours lie ahead’ as Spain continues to battle against a series of enormous wildfires that have forced
BOSSES at Valencia’s iconic Oceanografic aquarium have named one of their sharks in honour of hometown hero Ferran Torres after his World Cup-winning exploits for
HUMIDITY has reached levels never recorded before along the Valencia and Costa Blanca coast, with dew points closing in on the highest ever measured on
A THREE-STOREY building in the Valencian town of Benetusser collapsed on Tuesday night but nobody was injured. Around 20 minutes earlier, residents heard strange noises
AN inquiry into the response to the 2024 Valencia flood disaster has raised the official death toll figure to 231. Catarroja investigating judge, Nuria Ruiz,
VALENCIA region president, Juanfran Perez Llorca, has offered help to his Andalucian counterpart over the forest fire in Almeria. Perez Llorca spoke to Juanma Moreno