Preserving paella for future generations

Valencian paella, and the art of coming together to share this meal, has been officially declared an immaterial asset of cultural interest (BIC) by...

The EU ‘cannot fail’ to deliver

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and Valencia president Ximo Puig have called on the European Union to provide the tools to allow member states to...

Consolidating health and social care

The SIP card used to access public healthcare in the Valencia region will be adapted to also cover social services, announced vice-president Mónica Oltra. She...

Bid to look after tourists better

The regional government wants to professionalise the role of personnel who manage and maintain holiday apartments. To this end it is collaborating with Valencia polytechnic...

Freeing a small horse

A spiny seahorse (Hippocampus guttulatus) has become the first of its species to be treated as a patient at the Oceanogràfic foundation’s wildlife recovery...

Jabs start later in the Valencia region

The joint vaccination campaign against Covid-19 and the flu will start next Monday (October 16) in the Valencia region. A spokeswoman for the regional health...

‘No appointment’ initiative proves popular

A total of 8,792 people turned up for a jab on Tuesday – the first day of the regional government’s ‘vaccination without appointment’ programme...

Newborn Martín needs urgent bone-marrow transplant

A TWO-WEEK-OLD baby in L'Horta Sud needs a bone-marrow donation before he reaches two months of age as he was born with an immunodeficiency...

Sexual health law guarantees right to abortion

The government has reformed the 2010 law on sexual and reproductive health to ‘guarantee and increase’ rights, and remove obstacles that were preventing some...

Shoring up the river walls

A total of €515,508 is being spent on strengthening the walls which protect Formentera del Segura from the nearby river. A spokesman for the Segura...

MIT on film

A 22-minute-long video about MIT licences – the procedure designed to legalise homes built on greenbelt land in the countryside – has been produced...

Watching over the sea grass prairies

The work done by the marine observation service in the battle to preserve underwater prairies has been lauded by regional director for the environment,...

DGT safe summer campaign launched

‘Don’t ruin this summer we all deserve so much’, is the message of the national traffic department (DGT) campaign for a safe holiday season...

Inferno strikes old people’s home

Six people have died and 18 have been injured – including members of the emergency services – in a fire at an old people’s...