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The Companies Register closed Adaix de Negocios' sheet in 2020 after its tax number was revoked. Sergi Vélez, Montse Mínguez's partner, was its representative. The Paeria cut its bill by 281,783 euros in 2014.
SecurityLleida's Provincial Court acquits a man for whom prosecutors sought five years in prison. The young woman, now 19, admitted at trial that she made it up, and prosecutors want a possible false report assessed.
EconomyUnió de Pagesos takes 200 tractors to Barcelona and seeks aid of 8,500 to 17,000 euros per farm. In Lleida, inflation hits 5.1% and diesel costs 34% more than a year ago.
SecurityThe Mossos arrest two men aged 20 and 25 after they fled across the fields. That Tuesday, another cable theft between Raimat and Almacelles delayed trains between Lleida and Zaragoza.
PoliticsLleida's PSC chooses the PSOE spokesperson to head its Congress list for 29 November while the PP calls her a hypocrite over her partner Sergi Vélez's rental company.
LleidaSom Habitatge, the landlords' association set up as a counterweight to tenants' unions, launches in Lleida and calls for owners to regain control of their homes in the face of squatting.
SocietySudanell has fifteen births in 2026 and passes 900 residents for the first time. Montgai will have eight babies, its highest number in 25 years. In the province, births remain 20% below 2015.
SecuritySince 1 October Lleida's Guardia Urbana has had a four-officer Inspection and Civility Group that can patrol in plain clothes. It has issued 17 fines, says the Paeria.
LleidaA fire in the rear cab of a Madrid-Figueres AVE cut the high-speed line during the Pilar holiday return. In Lleida it affected nine trains, according to La Mañana.
SocietyThe Arnau de Vilanova and Santa Maria hospitals will implement a joint governance framework to unify their waiting lists and manage human resources collectively.
SecurityThe Operation Showtime network kept drugs in a Lleida storage unit. On Pilar day the Guardia Civil reviewed its year: 40 arrests and 1,414 smuggling offences in the province.
LleidaThe Paeria's housing committee agrees a new expropriation, two land readjustments and a land purchase by the Dipòsit, in a district where it is already expropriating a block with 185 owners notified.
LleidaMunicipal company EMAU approves a surface right over the plot at 20 Francesc Bordalba street for Llogueralia, part of Grup Rubau, to build 88 affordable rental flats.
PoliticsFèlix Larrosa's government will not apply inflation, widens IBI, ICIO and capital gains rebates and will refund 580,000 euros of the waste fee. The vote is on 20 October.
SecurityThe districts of Lleida have recorded six killings in 2026 and another six in 2025, compared with between zero and three a year between 2018 and 2021, according to SEGRE's count.
LleidaThe Department of Agriculture has confirmed the reappearance of the virus in the Lleida district, with sixteen positive cases in horses, eleven of them in Almacelles, prompting the reactivation of surveillance measures.
EconomyAccording to Segre, the Lleida comarques spend almost 17 million euros every month on unemployment aid, benefiting more than 13,000 people.
PoliticsThe Generalitat’s annual Justice Report reveals that just 7.93% of judicial rulings in Lleida were issued in Catalan in 2025, a trend attributed to citizens’ explicit request to have their cases processed in Spanish.
LleidaThe council approved on 25 September the ordinance banning face coverings in the street, with fines of up to 750 euros, but councillor Carme Valls says women will not be fined at first.
SocietyData on the use of Catalan in the judicial bodies of Catalonia reflect a continuous decline, according to official statistics.
SecurityLleida recorded 36 sexual assaults with penetration in the first half, compared with 16 in Tarragona and 19 in Reus, according to the Interior Ministry's Crime Report.
LleidaThe City Council of Lleida, through the EMAU, has approved the purchase of approximately 50 homes in the Mariola district to expand the stock of affordable housing, according to the Consell.
OpinionLleida province records a 23 per cent foreign-born population, a rate that exceeds the averages of the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany.
SecurityThe municipal company EMAU will have about 50 flats in the Mariola by the end of the year. In the district, the Mossos dismantled a network that squatted homes and sublet them.
LleidaThe Paeria will pay 30,630.29 euros to the Museu Morera joint venture for the nine-month suspension caused by moving its own staff out of the building.
LleidaA hundred tractors have blocked traffic in Lleida to demand measures against the rising costs of agricultural production.
LleidaAi Tsunoda, who trains in Lleida, claimed gold at the Baku World Championships by defeating Michaela Polleres, thereby completing a cycle of previously lost finals.
SecurityA man with a criminal record was arrested in Lleida for driving a van stolen in Les Borges Blanques.
LleidaThe artisanal cheese maker Cal Majuba, based in La Seu d'Urgell, is ceasing operations after 12 years of trading. Management cites an unsustainable administrative burden as the reason for the closure.
LleidaThe Urgell and Aragón channels, along with Catalonia, face elections in 2026, with the Ebro Hydrological Plan and modernisation set to be the central pillars of the debate.
LleidaThousands of passengers in Lleida and the Segrià region were left without train service between 7:00 and 9:30 following a SEMAF outage, which coincided with service disruptions in the south caused by heavy rain.
SocietyA resident of Lleida, who has lived in a property managed by the Housing Agency for 22 years, has secured a judicial stay of her eviction proceedings pending the offer of alternative housing.
OpinionThe province’s four rivers are in drought and its reservoirs are virtually empty. Irrigated agriculture is grinding to a halt while political management remains mired in the identity debate.
LleidaCatalonia’s regional government activates the ES-Alert system in Barcelona, Tarragona, Girona, Osona and Moianès, but excludes Lleida despite the ongoing alert for torrential rain and the threat of a ‘mini-hurricane’.
LleidaWhile much of Catalonia is placed under a civil emergency alert and the storm brings transport to a standstill, Lleida remains outside the warning, yet its RL3 and RL4 lines continue running.
SecurityViolence takes hold on the city’s fringes. Two arrested following a homicide in an open space in Lleida. Calls for order and territorial control.
LleidaGraffiti at Junts’ headquarters in Lleida: backlash against housing decrees fuels tension, leaving residents at the mercy of separatist blackmail.
LleidaA couple in Alcoletge has paid €70,000 over twelve years and is still one step away from the street. In Lleida, only fifteen flats cost less than €700 a month.
SocietyThe death of a woman due to precarious housing conditions exposes the profound chasm between the politics of the drawing room and the reality of the street in Lleida and across Spain.
LleidaLleida province now has 4,446 foreign nationals with active long-term residency permits, nearly double the figure from a year ago, following the expedited regularisation drive spearheaded by the central government.
SocietyMore than 160 schools in Lleida have backed the ban on residential school trips, prompting the holiday camp sector to trigger full temporary employment regulation contracts (ERTE).
SecurityEstela returns to the Ponent Police Region in mid-October: an appointment that reignites the debate over police politicisation and security in Lleida.
EconomyLleida only offers 99 rental properties compared to 1,832 for sale, a structural distortion that pushes out young people and families.
LleidaLarrosa’s local council is set to face a judicial challenge on Monday over its decision to authorise an electricity line just ten metres from the homes in Lleida’s Huerto district.
EconomyThe agricultural sector in Lleida faces the coming months pending water availability and European regulatory demands.
IncidentsHeavy rain causes flooding on the LL-11 and delays high-speed trains in Lleida.
SecurityThe tragic discovery of a body in Lleida highlights serious security issues.
SecurityThe recent dismantling of a criminal network in Lleida reflects the growing urban insecurity.
SocietyThe Castellers de Lleida achieved their best historical performance in the Plaça de la Paeria during the Festes de Tardor in front of a packed square.
SecurityThe Lleida to La Pobla rail line records an increase in crime after being left out in 2024 and 2025.
EconomyThe dramatic 13.4% surge in housing prices in Lleida raises serious concerns.
EconomyHousing prices in Lleida recorded a year-on-year increase of 13.4% in the second quarter, leading inflationary pressures in Catalonia.
SocietyThe ban on the burka sparks a heated debate over security and rights in Lleida.
PoliticsThe prosecution has maintained its 12-year prison sentence demand for Jordi Benet and increased its request to eight years for Baltasar Rullán in the trial concerning corruption in the management of the Generalitat’s Roads Department in Lleida.
PoliticsThe mayor of Lleida has filed a legal complaint against Vox councillor Josep Roca for calling him a 'bastard' and a 'shameless' man during a party event.
PoliticsThe Catalan Government shields Regional Minister Esther Niubó in Parliament while families in Lleida are still unable to enroll their children in schools in Spanish.
SocietyAnalysis of the management of municipal registration and irregular immigration in Lleida according to local media data.
LleidaThe Lleida City Council is allocating over 200,000 euros to a new municipal forest fire prevention plan.
LleidaThe Lleida City Council faces a new full meeting this Friday with seventeen motions on the table and the city's daily problems.
PoliticsViolant Cervera rejects the Catalan immigration pact in Lleida, considering it an attack on women's rights.
LleidaBalaguer City Council loses planned projects following the annulment of a contract and demands explanations from the Generalitat.
LleidaThe Department of Territory is notifying the unilateral termination of the Balaguer tram contract via email.
EconomyThe Lleida-Alguaire airfield is hosting the 12th edition of the Lleida Air Challenge, featuring more than one hundred exhibitors and two thousand drones.
EconomyThe fields of Lleida are suffering from a severe spider mite plague due to the European Union's ban on phytosanitary products and the failure of biological alternatives.
SocietyForça Lleida is shaping its roster for the official season in the top tier of Spanish basketball.
SecurityPublic safety and the management of public resources are the focus of daily debate in the province of Lleida.
LleidaThe Sudanell City Council installs bollards and a crosswalk in front of the Miquel Baró Daban school to protect students as they arrive and leave.
LleidaLleida's century-old stadium is reopening its doors to host the first local derby in the Tercera RFEF between Atlètic Lleida and Mollerussa, after overcoming its closure due to legionella.
SocietyThe Sant Hospital Foundation of La Seu d'Urgell has reopened its facilities after a comprehensive renovation that began in May 2024, now offering rooms with private bathrooms and a day hospital operating Monday through Friday.
LleidaLa Paeria has set aside 50,000 euros to install shade on the Liceu Escolar footbridge and has announced further actions, without specifying amounts or deadlines.
LleidaLa Paeria has approved a credit modification of 2.1 million euros to install shading on the Liceu Escolar footbridge, on the condition that the cost does not exceed the established figure.
LleidaThe irrigators of the Segre and the Urgell canal are demanding from the Generalitat the 42 million committed to modernizing irrigation in the face of a campaign marked by water scarcity.
SecurityA physiotherapist from Lleida has accumulated six complaints for sexual assault during treatment, according to La Mañana. The Mossos arrested him and he was released with charges.
LleidaThe Lleida City Council is promoting a sports facility in the Saracíbar building, closed since April, which will feature two swimming pools, a gym, and a multi-purpose court.
SecurityA knife fight in Lleida's Plaça dels Pagesos resulted in several injuries and one arrest.
SecurityLa Paeria brings forward the Local Security Board meeting with Regional Minister Núria Parlon to Monday following the clash that left five people injured by bladed weapons.
LleidaTwo Mossos instructors testify at the Lleida High Court that the Boreas case wiretaps revealed deliveries of envelopes to the head of Highways of the Generalitat.
LleidaLleida's freight railway station will receive a multi-million-euro investment.
PoliticsThe Lleida city council plenary session is addressing the burqa ordinance with the PSC in favor, the PP, ERC, and Comú against, and Junts and Vox abstaining: six groups, three positions.
Lleida80% of Lleida's business owners anticipate a negative impact, 13 centers make the first air conditioning list, and logistics land points to Torreblanca-Quatre Pilans.
SecuritySpain's Civil Guard has seized 669 allegedly counterfeit items in two public squares in the province of Lleida, with a value exceeding 141,000 euros.
EconomyA Pimec survey published by La Mañana indicates that eight out of ten merchants in Lleida foresee a negative or very negative impact from the new Torre Salses retail park.
LleidaThe regional government of Catalonia has declared a drought alert in the Segre basin and activated restrictions on irrigation in Lleida.
SocietyThe Government of Catalonia is providing protection to 570 children, adolescents, and young people without family support in the Ponent counties.
SecurityA motorcyclist lost their life in a traffic accident on the Pont de Pardinyes in Lleida.
SecurityOn August 12, 2026, Lleida is preparing to welcome thousands of visitors for the solar eclipse.
LleidaThe City Council confronts Endesa after two months of blackouts amid a heatwave, with no emergency plan or responses from the company.
SecurityLleida City Council approves the installation of cameras in Edil Saturnino square, the city's main mobility hub, with EDIL European funds.
SecurityThe National Police dismantles one of Europe's largest methamphetamine labs in Almenar, with 13 arrests and 2.5 tons of drugs seized.
SecurityThe alleged perpetrator of 76 robberies in L'Horta de Lleida has been released after 39 days. The Horta Segura platform speaks of impunity.
LleidaThe collapse of a terrace on Pi i Margall forces the evacuation of a building in Lleida and reopens the question: who inspects the buildings?
SecurityThe UDEF has dismantled a pyramid scheme in Lleida that wiped out the savings of 31 investors with an estimated fraud of 20 million euros.
LleidaDiesel surpasses 2 euros per liter in Lleida, hitting seasonal workers and hauliers during the fruit campaign.
PoliticsWhile Ceuta reverses a massive entry in 30 hours with 69,500 returns, Illa's Government commemorates minority languages. Not a single measure for Catalonia.
LleidaTen bars sanctioned in a month and daily intervention on Balmes Street: terrace fines in Lleida already match a full year's total.
LleidaThe High Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) has sentenced the Catalan Government for failing to pay 12 invoices to a road maintenance company in Lleida, setting an 8% annual surcharge as a guideline for all of Catalonia.
LleidaThe Generalitat has put out to tender for €9.99 million the Seròs bypass, a project demanded for a quarter of a century to put an end to the passage of trucks through the urban center.
SecurityThe Catalan police have debuted Speed, a dog trained to detect accelerants, in Lleida to determine whether a fire at a cooperative was intentionally set.
LleidaLleida City Council opens Pavilion 4 of the Fira in response to the social emergency of 180 people sleeping rough during the fruit campaign.
PoliticsThe municipal group of Vox in Lleida claimed that the ethics committee had exonerated them, but official reports show they lied to their voters.
SecurityA resident of Lleida reports a brutal assault by the Municipal Guard; the City Council joins the case as a private prosecutor against him for assault on an officer.
LleidaThe Catalan Government excludes the city of Lleida from the stressed area list despite rents rising 0.97% in the past year. Eight municipalities in the province make it onto the list.
EconomyThirty tractors block the C-14 in Cervera as Lleida's agricultural sector demands 300 tractor drivers it cannot find, and the Generalitat fails to act.
SocietyWhile the Generalitat spends 600,000 euros on propaganda, 1,000 families in Lleida still do not know where their loved ones from the Spanish Civil War lie.
SecurityNine years after the double murder in Aspa, the Catalan government compensates the families of the murdered rural agents with 617,473 euros.
LleidaNearly 250 seasonal workers are sleeping rough in Lleida as the fruit campaign reaches its peak. The city council, overwhelmed, reinforces the Urban Guard, but the regional government remains absent.
LleidaThe Catalan Court has approved the massive €262 million contract for cleaning services in Lleida, but residents remain skeptical of promises that are set to be implemented a year behind schedule.
SecurityThe poster for the 2026 Autumn Festivities, created by Sonia Sierra, arrives amid a crisis of insecurity and institutional neglect criticized by the opposition.
SecurityA court in Huesca sentences a man to nine years for brutally assaulting his partner, who was left quadriplegic after four months at the Arnau de Vilanova hospital in Lleida. The court rejects the gender-based aggravating factor.
SecuritySpain's Civil Guard dismantles a network that supplied drugs from Segrià and Premià de Mar to Huesca. Over 50 kilos of narcotics seized.
SecurityCopper cable theft paralyzes R13 and R14 lines in Lleida, leaving hundreds stranded amid fires and severe damage to railway infrastructure.
LleidaLleida left out of the 11-S marches. ANC and Òmnium focus protests on Barcelona, Girona, and Amposta, ignoring Catalonia's fourth capital city.
SecurityA 46-year-old man stabs another in the head and shoulder on Prat de la Riba street. This is the third knife attack in less than a month in the capital of Segrià.
SecurityAn explosion on Carrer Lluís Companys in Lleida leaves five injured, one seriously. The cause was an aerosol can in a car, not an attack.
LleidaThe City Council postpones the civics ordinance that would regulate the burka, citing opposition amendments, while insecurity worries citizens.
SecurityINE data reveals that 23 minors were convicted of sexual offenses in Lleida in 2025, a 53% increase from the previous year.
SecurityA 30-year-old man stabbed in the lung on Carrer de la Palma. It is the third serious knife-related incident in Lleida’s Barri Antic district in three weeks. No arrests have been made.
PoliticsThe CEO barometer places Aliança Catalana as the most voted force in the province of Lleida, capitalizing on institutional disaffection and discontent over insecurity.
SecurityA wild boar entered the Sant Domènec residence in Balaguer early Wednesday morning, injuring a staff member and causing property damage. Rural Rangers sedated the animal after a two-hour incident.
SecurityThe Paeria installs emergency batteries in Ramon Berenguer IV Square to prevent chaos in the event of a blackout, while the Generalitat promises future projects.
PoliticsMinister Miquel Sàmper paints a picture of Lleida as a land of opportunity, with Torreblanca as its star, but the reality of insecurity, power cuts, and corporate flight tells a different story.
