The Aragon Hunting Federation (Farcaza) will receive the 2026 Aragon Environment Award. The Governing Council agreed on Wednesday to grant the honor for its contribution to responsible wildlife management as a tool for conserving Aragon’s natural environment.
Aragon Ombudsman Concepción Gimeno has urged the Department of Education, Science and Universities to adopt measures “as soon as possible” to ensure suitable environmental conditions in schools amid high temperatures. The institution has already informed the regional government of the specific needs of 19 schools and secondary schools in Aragon after receiving complaints from several education communities about classrooms that, in some cases, exceed 30 degrees.
The Government of Aragon has approved three new official degree programs to be added to the region’s university offering from the 2027-2028 academic year. The University of Zaragoza and San Jorge University will offer a combined 68 new places.
Aragón is strengthening its urgent and emergency care services with the addition of 27 doctors in permanent positions, who will be assigned to various healthcare services in Zaragoza, Huesca, Sabiñánigo and Teruel. The professionals selected their destinations on Wednesday after the public employment process run by the Regional Emergency and Urgent Care Management concluded.
More than one in three households in which a member has a gambling disorder report suicidal behavior, 30% more than households without the problem. This is the finding of a University of Zaragoza study based on representative data from the national Foessa survey, covering more than 18,000 Spanish households.
The whole of Aragon woke up this Wednesday to a dramatic change in temperatures, which have dropped by more than 10 degrees in a matter of hours due to the arrival of a polar air mass. Winds will be particularly intense in the Ebro Valley, where Aemet has issued a yellow alert for gusts that could exceed 70 km/h during the day. Rain is also taking center stage and will be especially heavy in Teruel until midday.
Home swapping may sound like something from a movie. In fact, the famous “The Holiday” featured the concept in 2006. Spending Christmas on the other side of the world in a stranger’s home while that person stays in yours may seem fictional, but the HomeExchange platform makes these exchanges possible. More commonly, users stay in another member’s home or host a visitor without having to swap homes simultaneously.
The Catholic calendar commemorates Saint Peter Claver on September 9, a Jesuit who dedicated his life to defending and caring for enslaved people.
Aragón Health Minister Ángel Sanz Barea has closed the “AI and Cybersecurity in Healthcare” event, organized by San Juan de Dios Hospital of Zaragoza and Fundación Ibercaja, with the support of IAON and 4Elitech. The event brought together nearly 200 professionals and experts to analyze AI’s impact on healthcare and the challenges linked to its implementation.
Hair can also return from holiday showing the effects of summer. Sun, pool or sea water and high temperatures can leave it drier, rougher, duller or frizzier. In September, Zaragoza residents will be able to check the damage with a free ‘hair MOT’ at two stores in the Aragonese capital and two in Calatayud.
Artificial intelligence is gaining importance as a tool to improve diagnoses, personalize treatments and streamline healthcare processes, but its implementation also poses new challenges related to cybersecurity and patient data protection. Nearly 200 professionals and experts met in Zaragoza on Tuesday to discuss how to advance this technological transformation without compromising citizens’ security or trust.
Maths is once again raising one of the main warning signs for education in Aragon. Nearly one in three 15-year-old Aragonese students, 32.3%, are at Level 1 in this subject. This is the lowest of the six performance levels established by the PISA report to classify students according to the knowledge and skills they demonstrate, with Level 6 reserved for those achieving the most advanced results.
San Jorge University welcomed more than 1,300 incoming students today as they began their studies this academic year. During the event, they met their new classmates and professors and learned about the services and opportunities available to them at USJ throughout their university experience.
The aim is to improve care for children through greater use of technology while creating a more welcoming space for their families. Zaragoza’s Children’s Hospital has opened a new pediatric ICU after the unit spent several years at Miguel Servet Hospital. The new facility seeks to represent a new model of critical care based on safety, clinical efficiency and more humane care.
The PISA Report results present two very different pictures of education in Aragón: the region remains above Spain’s average, but its students have lost significant ground over the past decade in Science and Mathematics. The regional minister for Education, Science and Universities, Carmen Susín, has focused on this decline and blamed Lomloe for the trend in educational performance: “The devastating results of the 2025 PISA Report in Aragón confirm the unmitigated failure of Lomloe, an ideological law that destroys academic excellence.”
Students in Aragon have again scored above Spain’s average in science, reading and mathematics. The PISA 2025 report places Aragon ahead of the country as a whole and almost level with the OECD and European Union. However, the longer-term picture is less positive: students in the region have also lost ground compared with previous editions, with the decline particularly pronounced in science and mathematics.
The Catholic calendar commemorates the Nativity of Our Lady on September 8, a celebration of the Virgin Mary's birth and her fundamental role in Christian history.
It was a day of reunions and a return to routine. Sleepy-faced and carrying backpacks full of books, thousands of children accompanied by parents or siblings returned to schools across Aragon on Tuesday to begin the 2026-2027 academic year. The first to return were students in preschool, primary and compulsory secondary education, totaling 153,136 pupils. Among them, 8,588 children are starting preschool for the first time, 257 fewer than last year.
Around 50 La Cartuja Baja residents gathered outside the Aragon Government headquarters on Monday to submit 744 patient care complaints over the deterioration they say is affecting the rural district’s primary care clinic.
The university year began this Tuesday with the launch of the Medicine degree at the University of Zaragoza’s Teruel campus. The new Faculty of Medicine, located at the Obispo Polanco University Hospital, marks a “historic milestone” by offering the degree for the first time at public campuses in all three provinces of Aragón.