The memories the Valencia floods couldn’t wash away: Project saving family treasures wins Spain’s top heritage award

A team of restorers has won the prestigious award after rescuing and repairing 235 family keepsakes from towns ravaged by the 2024 floods.

23 Oct, 2026 @ 17:00

La Cultura·Lead·National News·Valencia

Police swoop on exploitation gang that forced vulnerable foreign women to become prostitutes in Spain

27 people have been arrested in Cantabria with gang running extensive drug trafficking operation and illegally occupying 30 homes which they rented out.

23 Oct, 2026 @ 13:32

Crime & Law·Lead·Northern Spain

Storm Adam leaves five dead and thousands evacuated as Pedro Sanchez offers up to €6,000 compensation for flooded homes

Immediate compensation of up to €6.000 will be offered to any Valencia region home damaged in floods caused by Storm Adam.

21 Oct, 2026 @ 11:03

Alicante·Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

Pedro Sanchez to visit Valencia village left ‘upside down’ by deadly Storm Adam as 280 were rescued by helicopter and 2,100 evacuated

The storm killed at least five people after triggering catastrophic flooding across south-eastern Spain over the weekend.

20 Oct, 2026 @ 12:57

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Lead·Valencia·Weather

Residents told to stay indoors as red danger warning remains for areas south of Valencia

Weather alerts remain in place in Valencia area as residents are warned not to travel during flood rescue operation

A red alert for torrential rain remains in place until 10am on Monday in parts of the Valencian Community with six municipalities cut off due

19 Oct, 2026 @ 09:26

Alicante·Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community·Weather

Storm Adam is set to lash Valencia and the Costa Blanca with torrential rainfall

Valencia braces for up to 700mm of ‘catastrophic’ rainfall as red alert issued for Storm Adam – two years on from horror DANA that killed 242

The latest weather models suggest up to 700mm of rain could fall in Valencia and the wider Costa Blanca region across Saturday and Sunday.

17 Oct, 2026 @ 18:54

Costa Blanca·Lead·Valencia·Weather

Valencia’s flood risk zone expands by nearly two thirds as ban on underground car parks for new homes considered

Flood risk zones in areas hit by the October 2024 Valencia DANA have been increased by 61% according to new projections.

16 Oct, 2026 @ 12:16

Environment·Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

‘Unusual storm’ threatens Costa Blanca with sudden cold snap and October wash out

Early projections suggest torrential rain coming in on Saturday afternoon and lasting as long as Tuesday- coupled with lower temperatures.

14 Oct, 2026 @ 13:30

Costa Blanca·Lead·Valencia·Weather

Valencia to issue €1,500 fines for dropping cigarette butts and failing to clean up dog mess in new crackdown

More serious offences, including urinating or spitting in public, will be met with fines of up to €3,000.

14 Oct, 2026 @ 11:30

Lead·Valencia

Nazi graffiti smeared on new Valencia memorial honouring victims of Franco’s fascist regime

Quart de Poblet City Council is analysing security camera footage to discover the identity of the perpetrator or perpetrators.

14 Oct, 2026 @ 10:00

Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

Former Liverpool goalkeeper armed robbery Valencia

Former Liverpool goalkeeper held at gunpoint as masked robbers storm luxury Valencia home with wife and child inside

Peter Gulacsi was forced to miss a Champions League clash after four intruders burst into his property around 1am on Tuesday.

14 Oct, 2026 @ 08:59

Crime & Law·Lead·Sport·Valencia

Spanish police now assign TIE fingerprint appointments automatically across Spain's major cities to beat backlog

Spanish police beat TIE appointment backlog by automatically assigning them in Spain’s major cities

Policia Nacional says scheme has been rolled out to Alicante, Barcelona, Malaga, Murcia, and Valencia provinces after successful trials.

13 Oct, 2026 @ 15:00

Lead·National News

British Olympic champion Scott Brash ‘was driver and PSG coach Luis Enrique’s daughter a passenger’ in fatal crash near Valencia that killed motorcyclist, 20

Sources say the British rider was formally placed under investigation for reckless homicide; drink and drug tests were negative.

12 Oct, 2026 @ 15:01

Lead·Valencia

Shoppers hoodwinked by distraction robbers in supermarket car parks across Spain

Off-duty cop catches ‘distraction robbers’ targeting shoppers in supermarket car parks across Valencia and Murcia

Two men have been arrested for robbing mainly women and elderly people in supermarket car parks in the Murcia and Valencia regions.

8 Oct, 2026 @ 13:38

Alicante·Crime & Law·Lead·Murcia·Valencia

Five 'housing crisis' protestors arrested after clashing with police in Valencia

Five ‘housing crisis’ protestors arrested after violent clashes with police in Valencia

FIve people will appear in court on Monday after being arrested during a 'right to housing' protest in Valencia.

5 Oct, 2026 @ 11:00

Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

FROM THE ARCHIVES: These areas of Spain will be uninhabitable by 2050 due to extreme heat and rising sea levels, NASA warns

One of the key regions at risk is the Meseta Central, the greater interior plateau of central Spain that holds Madrid, the Spanish capital, at

4 Oct, 2026 @ 10:49

Environment·Lead

WATCH: Torrential rain and flooding lash Spain’s eastern coast from Costa Blanca to Barcelona during red ‘danger to life’ alert

Authorities in Tarragona sent a new emergency ES-Alert to locals with more heavy rain forecast on Friday for Spain's eastern coast.

2 Oct, 2026 @ 14:47

Catalunya·Lead·Valencia·Weather

A racist attack in Valencia left a Moroccan man with a triple broken jaw

WATCH: Five arrested in Valencia after racist attack leaves Moroccan man, 31, with shattered jaw

The victim was punched and kicked by the gang for at least five minutes during patron saint festivities in Taverners de la Valldigna.

1 Oct, 2026 @ 17:45

Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia

Headless body found floating in the sea off popular beach in Spain

Headless body found floating in sea off popular beach in Spain

A pleasure boat made a shocking find on Monday when its crew spotted a headless corpse floating in the water off the Valencia coast.

30 Sep, 2026 @ 13:00

Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

Valencia 2024 flood disaster death toll goes up to 233 people

A JUDGE investigating possible criminal charges over the handling of the October 2024 Valencia flood disaster has raised the official death toll to 233.

29 Sep, 2026 @ 11:06

Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

Valencia's city council is outlining plans to hit stag and hen parties with huge fines.

Valencia plans to hit rowdy hen and stag parties with fresh fines of up to €1,500

The proposal would make Valencia the first Spanish municipality to explicitly target hen and stag parties with a specific regulation.

22 Sep, 2026 @ 14:54

Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia

One dead and three injured after deadly shootout between rival families on the streets of Valencia

FOUR men from the same family have been arrested after the incident, which took place in the early hours of the morning in the L’Alquerieta

20 Sep, 2026 @ 18:12

Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia

PICTURED: Irish couple who died in Valencia jacuzzi were ‘much loved parents’ whose sudden passing ‘has left an immeasurable void’

MOURNERS paid tribute after Patrick and Thomasina Tobin were survived by their two teenage children.

18 Sep, 2026 @ 15:57

Lead·Valencia

Man dies in Catalunya as flash floods wreak havoc across eastern Spain

FIREFIGHTERS recovered the man’s body some 500 metres from where his car had been swept away by a swollen stream on Wednesday night.

17 Sep, 2026 @ 09:32

Almeria·Catalunya·Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community·Weather

Spanish health authorities told to cough up €100,000 to family of Costa Blanca woman who fell into coma after drinking a milkshake

A SPANISH court has ordered Valencia’s health ministry to pay €100,000 in compensation to the family of a young woman left in a coma.

9 Sep, 2026 @ 16:38

Alicante·Costa Blanca·Health·Lead

Valencia DANA death toll rises to 232 almost two years on from devastating floods after new victim identified

A JUDGE investigating the handling of the October 2024 Valencia flood disaster has raised the official death toll to 232 people.

3 Sep, 2026 @ 10:44

Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

Valencia

The memories the Valencia floods couldn’t wash away: Project saving family treasures wins Spain’s top heritage award

Police swoop on exploitation gang that forced vulnerable foreign women to become prostitutes in Spain

Storm Adam leaves five dead and thousands evacuated as Pedro Sanchez offers up to €6,000 compensation for flooded homes

Pedro Sanchez to visit Valencia village left ‘upside down’ by deadly Storm Adam as 280 were rescued by helicopter and 2,100 evacuated

Weather alerts remain in place in Valencia area as residents are warned not to travel during flood rescue operation

Valencia braces for up to 700mm of ‘catastrophic’ rainfall as red alert issued for Storm Adam – two years on from horror DANA that killed 242

Valencia’s flood risk zone expands by nearly two thirds as ban on underground car parks for new homes considered

‘Unusual storm’ threatens Costa Blanca with sudden cold snap and October wash out

Valencia to issue €1,500 fines for dropping cigarette butts and failing to clean up dog mess in new crackdown

Nazi graffiti smeared on new Valencia memorial honouring victims of Franco’s fascist regime

Former Liverpool goalkeeper held at gunpoint as masked robbers storm luxury Valencia home with wife and child inside

Spanish police beat TIE appointment backlog by automatically assigning them in Spain’s major cities

British Olympic champion Scott Brash ‘was driver and PSG coach Luis Enrique’s daughter a passenger’ in fatal crash near Valencia that killed motorcyclist, 20

Off-duty cop catches ‘distraction robbers’ targeting shoppers in supermarket car parks across Valencia and Murcia

Five ‘housing crisis’ protestors arrested after violent clashes with police in Valencia

FROM THE ARCHIVES: These areas of Spain will be uninhabitable by 2050 due to extreme heat and rising sea levels, NASA warns

WATCH: Torrential rain and flooding lash Spain’s eastern coast from Costa Blanca to Barcelona during red ‘danger to life’ alert

WATCH: Five arrested in Valencia after racist attack leaves Moroccan man, 31, with shattered jaw

Headless body found floating in sea off popular beach in Spain

Valencia 2024 flood disaster death toll goes up to 233 people

Valencia plans to hit rowdy hen and stag parties with fresh fines of up to €1,500

One dead and three injured after deadly shootout between rival families on the streets of Valencia

PICTURED: Irish couple who died in Valencia jacuzzi were ‘much loved parents’ whose sudden passing ‘has left an immeasurable void’

Man dies in Catalunya as flash floods wreak havoc across eastern Spain

Spanish health authorities told to cough up €100,000 to family of Costa Blanca woman who fell into coma after drinking a milkshake

Valencia DANA death toll rises to 232 almost two years on from devastating floods after new victim identified

Spain orders two platforms to pull 8,300 ‘misleading’ seasonal rentals in crackdown on disguised holiday lets

OPINION: Why we had a moral and journalistic duty to investigate 50 women’s claims against ‘Buttman’ surgeon gunned down in his Marbella clinic

20 years on, The Olive Press revisits the October front pages that made our name – from Los Merinos to Franco’s stolen babies

Clocks go back in Spain tonight – but do YOU know why we change the time twice a year?

Inside Altea – the whitewashed Costa Blanca town that kept its 1960s bohemian charm with quirky bars and late-night art studios

Valencia

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