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From “going back 50 years” to “rebuilding Spain”: this is how the November 29th election campaign kicks off in the Balearic Islands

The strike that the parties want to (un)do

Maria Llull

The court admits the lawsuit against Bestard for the official cars case

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Vox is left alone at the Council of Mallorca against the granting of the National Poetry Prize to Sebastià Alzamora

Mercè Pinya

Maria Pronina i Maria del Mar Vanrell:

"Mockery can make children have less desire to speak their language"

Mercè Pinya

"It is a privilege": the workers of an institute in the center of Palma make private use of the parking lot

Jaume Cladera Mas

Cort pressures the housing encampment again with proceedings and possible fines

Aina Vidal

Palma becomes a cry for a dignified life

Maria Llull and Héctor Rubio

11-N: social outbreak for some Islands where working is enough to live

Jaume Perelló

Architecture in family

David Marquès

Emergency services attend to 112 incidents due to wind in the Balearics, the majority in Mallorca

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They lift 111 sanctions for irregular nautical charter in 2026

ARA Balears

Helena Bianco dies, the voice that sang “'It will be wonderful to travel to Mallorca'”

ARA Balears

The weekend train reinforcement begins this Saturday and will continue until January 17

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Christmas Market

The assembly of the Christmas market at Parc de la Mar begins after Cort detected numerous deficiencies there

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Periodisme lliure i compromès

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Periodisme lliure i compromès

letter to the editor

Thanks to the health workers with great passion

Open tribune

The housing problem brings down the education system

Open tribune

'Neither people without homes, nor homes without people'

Vignette

The Crossroads

Sobrassada, the traditional sausage most sold in Spain

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The secrets of the castle of Sant Carles and of the lighthouse of Portopí, uncovered

ARA Balears

Open House: 5 buildings with a past and a new future

Cristina Ros

Open House Palma opens the city's doors to the rhythm of music

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Hermes, messenger of the gods and the interconnected Balearic electrical system

Antònia Artigues

Interview José Juan Novás:

"Betting on ICT in the Islands is not going against tourism, it is guaranteeing its survival"

Josep P. Reynés

The Balearics and the challenge of getting off the tail in R+D investment

Josep P. Reynés

What is edge computing and how does it connect the Balearic Islands?

Héctor Rubio

The actress Samantha Hudson denounces that she has been sprayed with pepper spray by the Police

ARA Balears

L’Aferrada debuts a 600 euro prize for the best video about the gathering of creators in Catalan

Mallorca Council

The Council begins the expropriation of Alaró castle

Mercè Pinya

The extension of rental contracts can save 10,090 euros per household in the Balearic Islands

ARA Balears

Nvidia and its CEO sued for "misleading" its shareholders about the espionage case

Antònia Crespí Ferrer

Hegseth calls the impeachment process against him a "sham"

Antònia Crespí Ferrer

Israel opens the legislature with the first assault to oust Netanyahu

Catherine Carey Arribas

Stick out the Tongue 2026

Rudymentari, Ouineta and Romandre, protagonists of this Saturday's Treu la Llengua

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Així era i no era... |

Maria del Mar Bonet (according to her older brother, Joan Ramon): “Maria del Mar is who she is thanks to mother: back then she was already like the women of today”

Clàudia Darder

Dijous Bo this year puts the accent on theater

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Pedro Bestard during his intervention.

Bestard rules out leaving the position despite the Prosecutor's Office lawsuit: "I do not intend to resign, period"

Albert Abad assumes the coordination of Citizen Security of Palma

The general strike will force the cutting of streets and the diversion of twenty bus lines in Palma

Concentration in Maó.

3,000 people attend the two demonstrations for the general strike in Menorca

The campers for housing return to occupy the Plaza de España after the demonstration

Alert for wind with gusts that can reach 110 km/h in some points this Thursday

Library of the Estudi General Lul·lià, the space that will host the ARA Balears debate with the teaching unions.

Education, under examination: the ARA Balears organizes a debate with the teaching unions

The general strike empties the classrooms: from 43% at Cap de Llevant to 20% at Quartó de Portmany

"We have plenty of vocation, but we lack hands": thousands of students and teachers take to the streets for the 11-N

IB3 workers concentrated at the Consolat de Mar during the protests of June 2025.

IB3 workers call for an indefinite strike starting from November 22nd

More than 374 million for Mobility, Infrastructures and Urbanism of Palma

Teachers lead the outcry for housing in Formentera: "Having a job cannot condemn us to live in a pen"

General view of Palma from Son Vida.

A perpetual Renaissance

Lullabies

It is not Marx's beard, it is Google Maps

Talaiot of Trebalúger, in the municipality of Es Castell

Talayotic Menorca wavers

Feeling like Cordelia or killing the father after he is dead

Trio Mediaeval and Christos Barbas bring to Palma and Binissalem a contemporary mass inspired by Ramon Llull

Group of shoemakers in Ciutadella around 1900.

The peasants who sang in the factories

General Riera: the soldier who saved lives

A bishop against tourist greed

A therapy session in 'The Sopranos'

An essential series and one of the best books of 2023: what you cannot miss this week

Small crunchy clouds

Stop and inn

View of the La Mola lighthouse from the cliffs of Punta Roja, coastal border of the east of Formentera.

The Mola of Formentera, an isolated and imposing plateau

From Ferreries to Cala Galdana via the Torrepetxina staircase

From the Caves to the Potteries, through the surroundings of Santa Eugènia

The founders of the Mallorcan shop.

Garmin chooses a Majorcan shop to present its new watch

Rafel Nadal, new executive of Real Madrid

Running for a good cause: the seafront promenade hosts the second Solidarity Race of the APB

The mysterious case of the vampire of Poland: “She was perceived as a demonic being”

Iker Mons

"Now there are many more restrictions and prohibitions than before"

Núria Juanico Llumà

The last Amazigh tattooist of Tunisia

Sergi Llanas

The mystery of Agatha Christie that goes beyond her crimes

Quim Aranda

The great post-dramatic novel of the United States of today

Marina Espasa

"When I took early retirement, it was the moment to make my dream come true"

Jordi Nopca

Lack of solidarity also involves taking the yogurts with the latest best-before date

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

For bread and for salt

Per pa i per sal |

Stop and stay

Caterina Gelabert

The mushroom season starts late: where and when will we be able to find more?

Xavi Segura

Three ways to make chestnuts, Ada Parellada's recipe

Ada Parellada