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Ibiza was one of the European epicenters of Epstein's network

Jaume Perelló

If you're German, you can win a luxury villa in Mallorca for 25 euros

Guillermo Sánchez on the homeless: “IMAS is not a hotel”

Laura López Rigo

Council of Mallorca

The Consell de Mallorca reverses course and will not reduce tourist accommodations: "We do not consider it urgent"

Laura López Rigo

Confirmed: the teacher recruitment exams will take place on May 9th and 10th

Jaume Cladera Mas

They de-mentalize

A marijuana plantation and a hashish laboratory have been dismantled in Marratxí.

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The threat of a strike by SFM workers grows: "It's all just talk."

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Storm Nils causes more than 260 incidents in the Balearic Islands, most of them in Mallorca

H.R.

Quart Creixent officially takes over from Abacus

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The municipal secretary denounces the mayor of Petra for workplace harassment

Josep Maria Sastre

City of Palma Awards

Cort presents the City of Palma 2025 awards, almost a month later

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Sant Jordi residents win: Defense will not build the powder magazine in Son Sant Joan

Jaume Perelló

Council of Mallorca

The PP will remove the homeless from Les Vies park, but assures that "they will have their solution"

Laura López Rigo

Former parliamentarian Carlos Veramendi dies

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Más calls for the annulment of Rafal Rubí's project, just days before construction is set to begin.

David Marquès

The Collective hosts an event on freedom of expression for women in Afghanistan

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One of Pau Rigo's robbers, convicted of kidnapping a man in Palma

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Periodisme lliure i compromès

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Cultural agenda

Don't miss a single one

Vignette

The Encruya

President de l'Audiència Provincial |

Gabriel Oliver:

"Administering justice in Catalan is still not the norm in the Balearic Islands"

Aina Vidal

Úrsula Corberó and Chino Darín confirm the birth of their son in Catalonia: "It was important that the birth take place in the mother's native language"

Alejandra Palés

Education links memory and terrorism in a course during the repeal of the Democratic Memory Law

Jaume Cladera Mas

New instance of linguistic discrimination at a takeaway restaurant in Palma: "If you don't speak to me in Spanish, I don't understand you"

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Catalina Soler denies having received any fine for disrespecting the Civil Guard

Sebastià Vanrell

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

The San Felipe Neri oratory in Porreres closes after more than a century of holding mass.

Josep Maria Sastre

Ukraine denies it is preparing for spring elections in the country

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Putin recruits young Africans as cannon fodder for Ukraine

Albert Sort

Tragedy in Canada: Ten dead in a high school shooting

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The US Attorney's Office concealed its agreements with Epstein from the victims

Quim Aranda

The 5th Paco de Lucía Mallorca Festival arrives in Palma with flamenco, rap and a focus on female talent

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"Ordering a Glovo or having brunch": some phrases people from Palma say that you'd never say to a small town

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When a wedding dress is not just for getting married: the sustainable approach of a designer from Palma

Héctor Rubio

Així era i no era... |

Jaume Carot (according to his sister Elena): “He said he wanted to be 'a man alone'”

Clàudia Darder

Tourist overcrowding in Mallorca

The meeting on the ecotax of the Sustainability Pact ends in nothing

The motion to ban the burka in the City Hall ignites the Manacor plenary session: "You like to invent problems where there are none"

The PP and Vox seal their alliance: the Memory Law, closer to the trash can

Festival presentation.

The Paco de Lucía Mallorca festival opens the call for applications for the 3rd Young Talents Grant

The multi-million dollar underwater ship museum planned for Portocristo has been cancelled and will not be built.

Dryland almond trees will disappear from the Balearic landscape: "In five years there won't be a single one left"

Family visiting a school.

How do we choose our children's school? Three families share their experiences.

Privatization of education: San Gayetano and CEU San Pablo promote a teacher training institute

Alternativa Docent demands more time and better pay for tutors

NEIGHBORS SEPARATED Americans will be able to travel to the island, although not yet for tourism.

The aviation fuel crisis in Cuba is hitting tourism and putting companies with Balearic parent companies on alert.

The self-employed are gaining ground in the Balearic Islands and will close 2025 with unprecedented figures.

The City Council prohibits new tourist rental units in Palma

Palma is full of tourists.

It seems we have more 'Moors' than tourists

A new moment for sovereignty

Prohibition

Fernando Clemente in front of one of his works

Fernando Clemente opens his first solo exhibition in Mallorca at 6A

Pollença exposes the photographic soul of Javier Inés, photographer of the pre-Olympic Barcelona

Tourists and locals

Celebration of a mass in the Cathedral of Mallorca.

Does God speak Catalan?

The Majorcan apostles of liberation theology

Franco, against the giants of the Islands

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

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

From Morocco to Poland: Algaida's cuisine unites cultures in a book

The route

Mount Barca, discreet, but extremely decisive

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

The Nou valley, a fertile, long and winding trench

Players from the lower categories of Ciudad de Inca Futsal during a match.

Grassroots sport: when work is done, training begins

Fornells Tower, guardian of the great shelter from the Tramontana wind of Menorca

The Archduke's projected gaze around the Horadada

Jodie Foster: "One of the good things about being older is that you don't worry about anything anymore."

Elaine Sciolino / The New York Times

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Growing up with a knot in your stomach: a childhood with anxiety and depression

Núria Bigas Formatjé

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

Sònia Sánchez

Glimpses of nature: the best photographs of wildlife

Xavier Bertral

Sex and literature in high school

Carlota Gurt

The secret book about the Catalan revolution of 1936

Jordi Nopca

Hunger, the new deadly sin

Anna Manso

Big red fish

Caterina Gelabert

The ube, the viral purple tuber that is turning the Philippines upside down

Rambo Talabong / The New York Times

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Content in catalan

For bread and salt

Per pa i per sal |

Red legs

Caterina Gelabert

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

Josep Genovard