Álava

The City Council and the March 3 Association have jointly organized a programme of activities, including a film cycle and a literary competition. On 28 February, the Palacio Europa will host a great commemorative event open to anyone who wishes to do so. 

The new project envisages installing four 110 metres high and 7.8 MW of unit power windmills (previously 7), as well as an anemometric tower of 99.5 metres. Although generators would be installed in Amurrio, the evacuation line would also affect the municipality of Ayala. With these changes the total power would rise to 31.2 MW and the investment would fall to 24.8 million.

On devices located in Álava, an alert sound will be heard, accompanied by a message indicating that it is a test and not a real risk situation.

The bus company will withdraw the following reinforcements due to low demand: from Vitoria-Gasteiz to Bilbao (05:50, 06:45, 13:30 and 15:30) and from Bilbao to Vitoria-Gasteiz (06:30, 07:45, 09:30 and 13:30).

In addition, births of mothers of foreign nationality account for 25.3 per cent of the total in the Basque Country, especially in Álava, where they reach 32.5 per cent.

There will be four a week between Vitoria-Gasteiz and the two cities, but it will temporarily be two a week in January.

According to the latest data, 417,744 people have been vaccinated against this respiratory disease in the CSC, 11% more than last year.

El Gobierno Vasco, las tres diputaciones forales y la Asociación de Municipios Vascos (EUDEL) are preparing a new protocol in subject matter of campamentos y albergues, after ocurrido in the camp of Bernedo.

In some areas of Álava they have experienced the "warmest and driest scarcity" in this century, and the average temperature has been 1.2 ° C above normal.

Those over 75 years of age or chronically ill may request an appointment to be vaccinated against influenza and covid.

Compared to the data of October 2024, however, unemployment in the Basque Country fell by 888 persons (0.82 per cent) and in Navarre by 1,129 persons (3.75 per cent), while from September to October membership increased by 1.32 per cent in the Basque Country and 0.89 per cent in Navarre.

The General Meetings approved this morning the abolition of the honorary appointments granted by the Provincial Council of Álava to the dictator Francisco Franco and the military coup d'état Emilio Mola in 1936, in compliance with the Law on Historical and Democratic Memory of the Basque Country.

The Provincial Council has opened a punitive file against Sarrea Euskal Udaleku Elkartea for "failure to comply with two obligations" of the regulations: not to inform the competent department  of the activity and not to transmit the requested documentation to the Council. So far, 21 complaints have been filed by the families of minors who participated in these camps for the offences of sexual assault and exhibitionism.

The Sahrawi diaspora of the Basque Country has today concentrated in Vitoria-Gasteiz to show its rejection of the autonomy plan of Western Sahara, which has been raised under the sovereignty of Morocco. The Saharans have recalled that the Spanish State is responsible for "abandoning its people" and have demanded that the Spanish Government publicly reject the autonomy plan in order to hold a referendum on independence.

The 32-year-old man has been detained by several people until the arrival of the Ertzaintza. After the police station proceedings, the detainee has been released pending trial.

Search services found the man's body around 6 p.m. in an area of difficult access.

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