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Residents of Palma's old prison: "The only solution Cort offers us is the street"

Laura López Rigo

The courts dismantle the arguments of the Consell against the bus-HOV lane at the airport

Council of Mallorca

The PP refuses to support the vehicle restriction in Mallorca

Laura López Rigo

Antonio Tejero, the man behind the 23-F coup attempt, has died.

Ot Serra

A journalist from Mallorca tried to convince Tejero to abandon the coup attempt of February 23rd.

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The Cesid suspected that Juan Carlos I held "confidential interviews" with the coup plotters before the 23-F trial

Andrea Zamorano , David Miró , Martina Alcobendas and Aleix Moldes

A group of coup plotters with links to Tejero planned to kill Juan Carlos I

Martina Alcobendas

The left sees an absolute collapse in the mayor's handling of the police.

Héctor Rubio

Matilde Muñoz's killers sentenced to 18 years in prison

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A 75-year-old woman dies in a head-on collision in the Peguera tunnel

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The PP wants to reinforce its 'no' vote on the regularization of immigrants with a vote in the Catalan Parliament

A.M.

The Association for the Defense of Public Health endorses the Framework Statute and demands a reorganization of the system in the Balearic Islands

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Palma City Council begins expropriating the underground premises of the Plaza Mayor

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Inca establishes the first municipal council for democratic memory in the Balearic Islands

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A man admits to raping a 14-year-old doll in Palma, but avoids jail with a plea deal.

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Baleària closes 2025 with a record turnover of 801 million euros, 16% more

Daniel Martín Fernández

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Cultural agenda

Don't miss a single one

Open Forum

Regularization: dismantling arguments

Observatory

Opera. Feminine plural

The PP removes Ramon Llull from Catalan curriculums in the Valencian Community: "It's like removing Miguel de Cervantes in Madrid"

Jaume Cladera Mas

“Now I do believe that machines can affect my profession.”

Marcos Torío

Pere Carrió, former Education Inspector: "The best education law ever passed in Spain is the one from 1970"

Jaume Cladera Mas

Ludwig Band, Maria Jaume, Auxili and Nastallat will play at the Acampallengua 2026 concert

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Fernando Sansó:

"Changing your style of dress in Mallorca is more difficult because of fears about what people will say."

Sebastià Vanrell

The Manacor Hospital refers more patients to the private hospital than Son Espases, Son Llàtzer and Inca combined

Jaume Cladera Mas

PP and Vox push to ban non-residents from buying homes

Anna Mascaró

Two years in prison for keeping 3 million from the sale of a house in Mallorca in Lewandowski

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Education Ministry convenes the Roundtable for Subsidized Education and (for now) deactivates the union protest

Jaume Cladera Mas

Let's do it in Catalan prevents Ibiza from putting up bilingual signs on its streets

David Marquès

The Justice Department has withheld key documents in the Epstein case concerning Trump

Antònia Crespí Ferrer

Iran finalizes purchase of supersonic missiles from China amid military escalation with the US

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The British government on former Prince Andrew: "Groller, arrogant and spoiled"

Quim Aranda

Putin accuses Ukraine of obstructing peace and wanting to use nuclear weapons against Russia

Albert Sort

Michal Pazderka wins the III CESAG Social Documentary Festival

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The defeated peninsular Spaniards who took refuge in Mallorca

Antoni Janer Torrens

The Museum of Mallorca reviews the life and political career of Antoni Maura with an exhibition

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Per pa i per sal |

Discreet and constant

Caterina Gelabert

Mercedes Celeste and Lorenzo Bauzá.

Jaime Martínez reorganizes Palma City Council amidst the clash with the Local Police

"There's not enough room here for everyone" (but there is room for 19 million tourists)

Political debate erupts: the dangers of masturbation with chickpeas

Family photo of the event.

Eroski Baleares donates 49,000 euros to 14 child welfare associations

The Balearic Islands remain under a yellow alert for fog.

A man dies during a controlled burn that caused a forest fire in Gorg Blau

The LGBTQ+ flag displayed in Palma's main square.

The LGBTQ+ community is invisible in most educational centers in the Balearic Islands

'Jutipiris', 'guardapits' and 'marranxa': Educació launches a project to recover disused words in Catalan

Teachers at IES CTEIB deny rumors of internal crisis and defend their work

Three wind turbines that were dismantled in 2022.

Menorca is no longer the island of wind

The 532 homes in Ca n'Escandell will be completed in the first quarter of 2027, according to the Ministry of Housing.

Ibiza declares eight neighborhoods as saturated tourist zones

Diada for the language.

When the 'Argentine' wanted to replace the Spanish: the lesson for the Menorcan debate

Artificial fiction

What does Prohens mean by being "from here"?

Estepa Teatre, in a promotional image for one of The Wild Gardens.

Creations in the Islands break the taboo surrounding mental health

What Queralt Albinyana was like, according to her mother: "She could do many things at once and do them well."

Why do we now say that we 'perform' things, if before we 'did' them?

Personalities at the commemoration

123 years since the first public reading of 'La Balanguera' are commemorated

The last telluric voice of the pre-tourist Balearic Islands

Does God speak Catalan?

A therapy session in 'The Sopranos'

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

Eat well and you will live well.

Where do they make the best bread with olive oil in Mallorca?

The route of the week

The Muro mountain range, elongated between history and legend

Mount Barca, discreet, but extremely decisive

Biniparratx, a cove sheltered from the cliffs of a bygone era

The Molinar Ecomuseum.

The Government will move the Balearic Islands Sports Museum to the Molinar de Montuïri Ecomuseum

Grassroots sport: when work is done, training begins

The Nou valley, a fertile, long and winding trench

How many liters of water are used in each ChatGPT consultation?

Eduard Forroll and Sònia Sánchez

From ruin to home

Cristina Ros

25 objects that make us rethink the role of women in history

Aure Farran

From Lhasa to Kathmandu: the magical route of Tibetan friendship

Oscar Domínguez

Marisol Schulz:

"Suddenly I ran into Lluís Llach at our house in Mexico"

Jordi Nopca

Osipov, the writer who looks at life in Russia with a doctor's eyes

Sílvia Marimon

The novel as a grand theater of ideas and passions

Pere Antoni Pons

What do we eat?

Baby eels: the delicacy that could soon be banned from being eaten throughout the State

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

Big red fish

Caterina Gelabert

We uncovered the scam behind Madrid's calamari sandwich.

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

For bread and salt

Eat well and you will live well.

Caterina Gelabert