Costa Valencia News & Information

A 19-YEAR-OLD woman arrested in Gandia (Valencia province) for attempting to join the ranks of DAESH in Syria has been sentenced to five years in jail, despite her protests that she was 'vulnerable, gullible and a...

VALENCIA'S metro strike during Fallas week has been called off, much to the relief of residents in the city and wider region and tourists travelling to eastern Spain for the world-famous March festival.

VALENCIA has been forced to postpone today's mascletà, or gunpowder banger display because of torrential rain reaching 140 litres per square metre (14 centimetres, or nearly six inches) across the region.

A STRIKE is set to hit Valencia's metro right where it most hurts: during the week of the city's huge trademark fiesta, the Fallas.

FORMER mayoress of Valencia Rita Barberá's post-mortem results have been revealed in the Spanish press, and show she died from a multiple organ failure sparked by the cirrhosis of the liver she suffered.

A PROTEST outside Valencia's immigration internment centre will continue until 12.30 midday today (Sunday) after a 24-hour lock-in yesterday as campaigners call for it to remain shut.

THE largest-ever Lladró ornament has been unveiled in Paris, and measures 1.5 metres (4'11”) in length.

SEVEN people have been arrested in Valencia 12 years on from the biggest diamond heist of the century, worth €67 million.

NOW that the Fallas fiesta is getting under way in the Valencia region, those who are some distance from the action can send their friends fireworks and firecrackers via WhatsApp.

A 19-YEAR-OLD man has been arrested after writing comments on Twitter 'celebrating' the murder of MP for León Isabel Carrasco (pictured left, inset), and calling for numerous other members of the PP party to be...

A YOUNG couple has died from carbon monoxide poisoning caused by a gas heater, sparking warnings from health authorities about not leaving stoves on when retiring to bed.

Gloria Casanova allegedly told students during a class on Social Doctrine of the Church, part of third-year journalism studies at the Cardenal Herrera University, that becoming pregnant through rape was 'something...