The Baza City Council is providing a special urban bus service to the cemetery and reinforcing the cleaning of the cemeteries ahead of the All Saints' Day holiday.
News from October 28, 2026
The 46 stories we published that day.
The Salobreña Town Council postpones the programme planned for 31 October and 1 November and its presentation, which was to be this Wednesday.
La empresa municipal de agua saca a concurso el mantenimiento de sondeos e instalaciones hasta el 23 de noviembre por 1.601.923,18 euros sin IVA.
La empresa municipal de aguas abre a concurso su suministro de electricidad, con ofertas hasta el 3 de noviembre.
The port of Motril recorded 16,410 regular line passengers in September 2026, compared with 19,603 in the same month of 2025, according to Puertos del Estado.
The president of the Junta, Juanma Moreno, has called for «an immediate review of all railway tracks in Andalucía» and has demanded from the Government «transparency, rigour and truth»: along those lines «at least 114 people have lost their lives in two accidents in just nine months».
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October 28, 2026
The municipality schedules activities from October 29 to 31, with parades, a horror passage and a facade contest.
The VI Maracena Film and Equality Week moves the day scheduled for the 11th to December 11 due to its support for the general strike.
The University of Granada is holding seven talks until November 4 to explain study stays abroad for the 2027-2028 academic year.
The conference, at the Faculty of Law, addresses how digitalisation is changing health, care and the inclusion of older people.
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has announced in Urda three days of official mourning throughout Spain, from Thursday, October 29 to Saturday, October 31. "All of Spain is in mourning," he said. He sees it as "unacceptable" to suffer two high-speed accidents in one year and promises to go "to the end."
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October 28, 2026
The Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, attributes the crash in Urda to an "inexplicable" decision by Adif's control centre: restarting the service with the Iryo stopped and a red signal, and without limiting speed to 40 km/h. The person who authorised it has been identified. Puente rules out resigning.
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October 28, 2026
The province's property registries record 914 transactions in August 2026, 19 fewer than in the same month last year, according to the INE.
The property registries of the province registered 667 mortgages on homes in August 2026, for 91.5 million euros, according to the INE.
The French anthropologist David Le Breton takes part from October 30 to November 1 in a UGR course with lectures, a workshop and a walk through the Darro valley.
The province incorporated 119 commercial companies in August 2026, with 44.1 million euros of subscribed capital, compared with 124 in the same month of 2025.
The province closes the third quarter of 2026 with 73,500 unemployed people, compared with 88,300 a year ago, according to the INE's EPA.
El Pabellón Municipal de Ogíjares acoge el viernes 30 de octubre la Casa del Terror, de 18:30 a 20:30 horas, seguida de un pasacalles de Truco o Trato.
The IV Provincial Meeting of Local Councils for Children and Adolescents will bring together around a hundred children and adolescents at the Intrujoven Hostel, in Sierra Nevada.
The Official Gazette of the Province of Granada of October 28 includes the initial approval of the ordinance on potentially dangerous animals in Loja and the provisional approval of the ATM fee in Maracena, as well as the determination of the ownership of the Bajada del Tenis road in Almuñécar.
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October 28, 2026
The Órgiva Town Council warns of temporary water cuts in some areas of the municipality due to the repair of a shut-off valve on the main pipe.
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October 28, 2026
The Ministry for Ecological Transition authorizes the construction of the «Los Guájares» plant, of about 357 megawatts, in three Granada municipalities.
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At least 68 dead in the collision of an AVE and an Iryo in Urda (Toledo), which cuts high-speed service with Andalusia
A Renfe AVE train struck a stationary Iryo train at 8:54 this Wednesday near Urda (Toledo): at least 68 dead. The Government has declared three days of official mourning and the Ministry of Transport attributes the accident to a decision by the Adif control centre "against regulations".
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October 28, 11:01
AFAMMER Granada organizes on Saturday, October 31, in the CISO Room of the Ogíjares Town Hall a session on women who drive their projects forward.
The Board of Directors of the Andalusian School of Public Health (EASP), meeting in Granada, has appointed Pilar Navarro as the organisation's new managing director.
Researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía conclude that the gas escaping from an exoplanet may not reflect the composition of its atmosphere.
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October 28, 2026
The first session of the UGR's Iridiscente film cycle is held this Wednesday, October 28, at 19:00, with free admission.
The course, a degree of the University of Granada, reaches its 17th edition and has already specialised 353 healthcare professionals.
The Andalusian School of Public Health and the University of Granada launch a new edition of the title with 25 professionals and 464 trained throughout its history.
The "Vivir bailando" workshop of the University of Granada's Senior Programme works on coordination, memory and self-esteem in the San Jerónimo room of Trabajo Social.
The Faculty of Sport Sciences of the University of Granada has taken part as co-organizer of the 7th World Congress on Sport Sciences in Racket Sports, held in Ningbo.
The Motril City Council is holding children's scary craft workshops with recycled materials on Thursday, October 29 and Friday, October 30, from 17:00 to 20:00.
The round table «Las universidades carolinas. Memoria y futuro» brings together this Wednesday the rectors of Granada, San Marcos de Lima and the UNAM at the Hospital Real.
The University of Granada has welcomed 40 students from the Universitat Politècnica de València to learn about the structural timber ecosystem of the province.
The team of Ahmed Salek, Daniela Moyano, Daniela Pineda, Teo Drabenche and Laura Padilla wins the 2026 edition of the UGR entrepreneurship programme.
The Real Federación closes the exhibition of 175 photographs on Friday, October 30, and will announce the winning works.
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Monachil celebrates its third Monachil Friday with fashion and a raffle on Friday the 13th
El auditorio Jorge García Tudela de la Casa de la Cultura acoge el viernes 13 de noviembre, a las 18:00 horas, la tercera edición del Monachil Friday.
Researchers from the University of Granada develop Theia, a tool that analyses the shape of living beings with a mid-range mobile phone and without an Internet connection.
The Granada hospital now has 20 units with current certification after the Andalusian agency recognised Cardiology, Nephrology, Medical Physics, Cardiovascular Surgery and Prevention.
The Cerro Beylar Nature Classroom in Huétor Tájar hosted a terrarium workshop in two shifts, with 40 participants, according to the City Council.
The Ogíjares Town Council organizes crafts at the library and a storytelling session at Parque San Sebastián on Wednesday, October 28.
UGR Emprendedora is organising a Thursday, October 29 evening meetup at Espacio V Centenario to diagnose companies that stopped working.
Teatro Alhambra programmes this Wednesday the play about migrations «Mahmud y no solo Mahmud» and on Saturday the concert by Los Hermanos Cubero.
The University of Granada will hold a seat on the governing body of the Union of Mediterranean Universities for three years.
The Los Álamos neighborhood of Motril celebrates its festivities between October 29 and November 2 with activities to foster neighborly coexistence.
The president of Melilla, Juan José Imbroda, has thanked the University of Granada for its work in consolidating the autonomous city's university project.