Ara Balears - The newspaper with all the latest news and updates from the Balearic Islands

Martínez wins the blow against Water Resources: unfiltered licenses even in flood zones

Jaume Perelló

Sara, an undocumented immigrant: "The PP and Vox members of parliament have never experienced loneliness, sadness, or scarcity."

Anna Mascaró

Education in the 1940s: "If they found you were dirty, they'd hang a band around your neck."

Jaume Cladera Mas

Agama, the main dairy company in the Balearic Islands, closes down

Aina Vidal

Interview Guillem Garí Fornés:

"Without generational change, the future of Es Cruce is complicated."

Joan Socies i Josep Maria Sastre

The perpetrator of the fire that burned more than 2,000 hectares of the Tramuntana mountain range could avoid prison

Aina Vidal

The EU defends Spain against Trump's new threat

Núria Vila Masclans , Víctor Sanz Guerrero , Cristina Mas , Antònia Crespí Ferrer and Quim Aranda

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Sánchez does not give in to Trump and the EU defends him

Núria Orriols and Gerard Fageda

Trump lashes out at Pedro Sánchez's government over Iran: "We will cut off all trade with Spain"

Antònia Crespí Ferrer , Gerard Fageda and Núria Orriols

Palma firefighters extinguish a fire that has left one person injured in Palma

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February breaks heat records in the Balearic Islands with unprecedented winter temperatures

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Vox, speaking to a hundred immigrants: "They have invaded the Balearic Islands"

Anna Mascaró

A 29-year-old British woman was found dead inside a yacht in the port of Palma.

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Waste management

Bunyola, the municipality in Mallorca that recycles the most, and Sóller, the one that recycles the least.

Aina Vidal

Animal welfare law, only half-baked: "People will react with fines"

Marcos Torío

The Portocristo restaurant that reserves 60% of its tables for Mallorcans

Sebastià Vanrell

The bodies of two men were found on beaches in Formentera.

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Open Forum

Four islands, one way of being

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Cultural agenda

Don't miss a single one

Periodisme lliure i compromès

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The Encruya

La filla única |

It's easier to get to Palma from Germany than from the Part Forana (the rest of Spain).

Alba Tarragó

Marta Jiménez Serrano:

"It's sad to realize how easy it is to die."

Laura Serra

Interview Ven'nus:

"I'll be the one who laughs really loudly, and maybe it'll even annoy you."

Georgina Gonzàlez

Així era i no era... |

Jaume Oliver, according to his friend: "He wanted to be Indiana Jones"

Clàudia Darder

Rigoberta Bandini surprises the Goya Awards with her cover of Tomeu Penya

Bruno Rodríguez

The Government contradicts Aena and states that the airport has been expanded

Anna Mascaró

Unemployment falls by 7% in the Balearic Islands

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Nearly 1,500 teachers have already registered for the competitive examinations in May.

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"Bombs will be falling everywhere": Trump's unusual speech to announce the attack on Iran

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The world reacts to Trump's attack on Iran: who applauds him and who condemns him?

Núria Vila Masclans

At least two dead and 40 injured after a tram derails in Milan

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Bill Clinton, speaking to Congress about Epstein: "I saw nothing and I did nothing wrong."

Antònia Crespí Ferrer

"What we at Huracán earned, nobody else earned working."

David Marquès

Bosch Bar: 90 years of coffee, conversation, and lobsters

Francesc M. Rotger

"Renting a house, that's dreaming, buying one, that's a German thing": the song against Airbnb in Mallorca

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Popular culture is strengthened in children's stories

Cati Moyà

The president of the Government, Marga Prohens, gestures at the last plenary session of the Parliament.

It's not an urban legend: politicians don't respond.

Le Senne uses Islands Day to question autonomy and rail against immigration

Rufián, Sumar... What role should MÁS play in Madrid in 2027?

A dinghy abandoned on the coast of the Balearic Islands

Two babies hospitalized for dehydration after arriving in Ibiza by boat

Social groups warn that the eviction from the old Palma prison could leave more than 200 people without an alternative.

More than 2,300 signatures to protect the Son Bonet Green Lung from the advance of the mega photovoltaic park

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The Teachers' Assembly of IES Alcúdia condemns the attack on a teacher and demands greater support

The Government declares the expansion of the CEU Beato Luis Belda a strategic project

Education will allow families with unborn children to apply for a place

A sample of the recalled products.

More than 500 products recalled during Carnival inspection campaign

Mallorcan businessman Miquel Gual buys Font Teix

The average daily maximum number of cruise passengers in Palma will drop from 8,500 to 7,500 during peak season

Business signs without lettering in Catalan in Palma.

40 (almost) useless years of the Language Normalization Law

Forgetting history as a weapon of imposition

Freedom in Mallorca

You might consider the Felanitxer to be a rare bird, but we are not the only ones in the Balearic Islands with a peculiar vowel system

The [e] felanitxera: practical guide to understanding a felanitxer

Independent bookstores are leading the way: the future will be collective.

Maria Jaume: "I miss Mallorca more and more each day"

The police cordon surrounding the Congress of Deputies where the attempted coup d'état by the Civil Guard Lieutenant Colonel, Antonio Tejero, was taking place.

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

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

The last telluric voice of the pre-tourist Balearic Islands

Smooth cockles from Friar Roger's recipe, an excellent formula for making a quick and tasty appetizer.

Shells

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.

The route of the week

The Muro mountain range, elongated between history and legend

Los Bini, the plateau above the rugged coastal peak of Puig Major

Mount Barca, discreet, but extremely decisive

Elite climber Erik Noya has given a masterclass.

Climbing takes a leap forward in Mallorca with the first climbing walls approved for competition

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

Grassroots sport: when work is done, training begins

"It's my story": a university project tries to save the memory of the families affected by the DANA storm.

Daniel Martín Fernández

We had our first kiss about 21 million years ago

Sònia Sánchez

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

Aure Farran

From ruin to home

Cristina Ros

Literary awards

Gonçalo M. Tavares wins the Formentor Prize for Literature 2026

Laura Serra and Jordi Nopca

Marta Jiménez Serrano:

"It's sad to realize how easy it is to die."

Laura Serra

Kidnapped footballers, violent neo-Nazis and an eccentric detective

Lluc Casals

Are there more food allergies and intolerances than ever before?

Albert Diumenjó Segalà

Today we're cooking...

Shells

Caterina Gelabert

What do we eat?

The healthy invention of the food industry to eat

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

Interview Sandra Doix:

"Priorat is not like France, which uproots red grape varieties, but the new ones planted are white grapes."

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez