Pro-independence Catalans gathered on the streets of Barcelona Tuesday ahead of a hotly anticipated speech by the region’s leader on the status of the restive province.

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy announced Friday that he is firing Catalonia's government and dissolving the regional parliament after it declared independence from Spain in a disputed vote.

Catalonia’s parliament voted for independence after an Oct. 1 referendum with about 90 percent of the 2.3 million people who voted choosing independence, according to Catalan officials.

Catalonia's regional parliament vote for independence from Spain Friday, setting up a showdown with the central government in Madrid that was poised to take direct control of the restive ...

BARCELONA, Spain - The regional parliament of Catalonia approved a plan Monday to set up a road map for independence from Spain by 2017, in defiance of the central government.. The chamber, based ...

Spain’s Catalonia region — best known for ravishing beaches and its tourist-magnet capital, Barcelona — grabbed the spotlight in October by holding an independence referendum despite central ...

BARCELONA/MADRID — Catalonia’s parliament will defy a Spanish court ban and go ahead on Monday with a debate that could lead to a declaration of independence, a regional government offi… ...

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's decision to fire Catalonia's government and force a new election is a "coup" and an "attack against democracy", the speaker of the Catalan parliament said ...

Spain moved to take control of Catalonia’s government on Friday after the country’s senate voted to invoke emergency constitutional powers, an unprecedented move that the Spanish president ...