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The Balearic Islands will approach the record fiscal deficit of the last decade in 2025

Anna Mascaró

The Balearic Sea is drowning in sewage

Laura López Rigo

The Balearic Islands have not received any of the 803 minors relocated from the Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla.

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The Consell de Mallorca and Quirón are accused of illegally obtaining evidence against a civil servant.

Is San Antonio only for the Crespí and Socias families, or also for the Hamdaoui or Saidi families?

Festes alternatives Sant Sebastià

Ses Sant Kanuteres: Check out the alternative festivals of San Sebastián 2026

Aina Vidal

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"I don't feel any less Moroccan for celebrating Saint Anthony"

Laura López Rigo

Access to Palma via the Manacor road is closed due to a burst pipe.

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Five years in prison for a tattoo artist who sexually assaulted a client in Ibiza

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Three out of every four vehicles driving around Formentera this summer belonged to tourists.

Héctor Rubio

He doesn't have a microchip and he's famous: Pancho, the rescued pony who joins the Palma Police

Jaume Cladera Mas

Twist in the murder of a young woman in Palma: Police rule out overdose and point to asphyxiation

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The course of the controversy: The Government endorses a sex education course coordinated by a deacon

Jaume Cladera Mas

Double tax advantage for landlords who don't raise rents: deductions from the State and the Balearic Islands

A.M.

Joan Pons, the anti-Catalan who wants to impose Gonellism on the Menorca Council

Anna Mascaró

Democratic memory

The left demands that the bust of Aurora Picornell be protected from vandalism.

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"The fact that there are no earmarked subsidies does not mean that we do not support our language."

Cati Moyà

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Opinió

The Encruya

Cultural agenda

Don't miss a single one

The Blessed Ones of San Antonio de Muro, declared an Intangible Cultural Heritage Asset

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Public transport

Night train and more frequent service to San Antonio and San Sebastián

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San Antonio 2026

Guide to San Antonio 2026 in Mallorca: events and schedules in the main towns

Aina Vidal

San Antonio takes flight to the Pla in the slipstream of the demons

Joan Socies

Així era i no era... |

According to his mother, Juanjo Montserrat was like this: "He doesn't want to lose, not even at Parcheesi."

Clàudia Darder

How do we say 'no' depending on the language we speak?

Elga Cremades

La filla única |

I've analyzed our New Year's resolutions: we're not doing well

Alba Tarragó

Interview Julieta:

"I feel like my career needs to take a bigger step."

Xavier Cervantes

Craft breweries in the Balearic Islands are on the brink: “Every day is a struggle to avoid closing.”

Josep Genovard

Farmers complain that the new waste registration system involves more bureaucratic hurdles.

Laura López Rigo

Murder or self-defense? Trial begins for the death of a thief in Inca

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Fecal contamination on Balearic beaches doubles in one year

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The dismantling of the Milán wind farm in Menorca has begun.

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Clara Ingold will be the herald of the San Sebastián Pride Llonguet

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Palma's Local Police announce protests against Corte: "They're laughing in our faces"

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The EU wants to limit Ukraine's purchase of weapons from the US using European aid.

Gerard Fageda

Trump threatens 25% tariffs on countries that trade with Iran

Antònia Crespí Ferrer

The dirty laundry Trump is trying to hide with the attack on Venezuela

Antònia Crespí Ferrer

Why is Putin silent about Maduro's capture?

Paul Sonne / Valerie Hopkins / Andrew E. Kramer (The New York Times)

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The Trouble in Pollença by Agatha Christie

Francesc M. Rotger

San Sebastián Festival 2026

All the confirmed artists, schedules and traditional festivals: The San Sebastián 2026 lineup

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Rebellion in the classrooms

Francesc M. Rotger

Are you lucky or always stuck with bad luck? It turns out it depends on you.

Sònia Sánchez

Francesc Antich, in an archive image

Algaida will name Francesc Antich an Illustrious Son of the municipality this Saturday

Citadel and Mahón, progressive strongholds on the right-wing island

Left-wing Gaul in the Mallorca of the PP and Vox

Stock image of a healthcare facility

Check the minimum services for the Primary Care doctors' strike on January 14 and 15

Vandalism attack at the Metropolitan cinema in Palma

Nearly 30,000 people with depression were treated at health centers in the Islands in 2025

The Inspectorate lacks the power to intervene in the discipline of state-funded schools.

More than 75% of teachers in the Balearic Islands warn of an increase in conflict in the classrooms

Overcrowded classrooms, increased inequality, and Catalan, dying out

A grand cultural promenade will link higher art studies to Palma's future Arts District

A housing development for sale in the Balearic Islands

Four of the five municipalities in Spain where it is most expensive to buy a house are in the Balearic Islands.

300 cities cheaper than the Islands limit rental prices

Six municipalities of the Islands have requested to be a tension zone

For many students, the use of Catalan in the school setting is the only way they have access to the language available to them.

Is being a civil servant enough to be a teacher?

Mystical Readings (and III): We, who still believe

Automatic

The Mallorca Oral website

Mallorca Oral: the new tool to preserve and disseminate the oral heritage of the island

The Spanish Committee of Art Historians criticizes the controversial syllabus for the position of heritage technician at the Consell de Mallorca

Tourists hunting for the Balearic goat

Francisca Nicolau Garí, 89, from Villafranca, with a picture of her nine children, six of whom she gave birth to at home.

The stories that tell what it was like to give birth at home 60 years ago

And the Catalan took to the streets again

Can March Restaurant: a family history that has been eating for a century

Suffering peasant from the blog 'Dit i fet'.

Celebration and forcefulness

A must-see series and one of the best books of 2023: what you can't miss this week

An old-fashioned sweet that endures

The route of the week

The Archduke's projected gaze around the Horadada

Cala Saona, where all the possible shades of blue in Formentera come together

Puig de l'Alzinar, immense balcony over the Binis valley

The route.

Cala Pi, the second line of defense in the south of Mallorca

The legacy of Francoism in Balearic football: why are club names still in Spanish?

The Mestre Pere fountain, the old hydraulic corridor of Ciutat

"The first time I heard Greta Thunberg I thought: 'I'm not crazy, I'm not the only one'"

Sònia Sánchez

A house the color of the earth

Cristina Ros

Is wearing Chanel democratic?

Sílvia Rosés

Glimpses of nature: the best photographs of wildlife

Xavier Bertral

Borges' philosophers

Miquel Àngel Ballester

Elizabeth Bishop's dense and precise losses

Pere Antoni Pons

The revolution of books passed down from mothers to daughters

Núria Juanico Llumà

Per pa i per sal |

An old-fashioned sweet that endures

Caterina Gelabert

Don't let them pass off prawns as shrimp.

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez and Eduard Forroll

Per pa i per sal |

A Christmas of dishes well used

Caterina Gelabert

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Interview Joaquim Clos:

"In Madrid, the average lunch bill in our hotel restaurants is 220 euros; in Barcelona, 45."

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez