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Prohens hides behind tax cuts in the absence of major reforms

Maria Llull

The Government will reduce regional taxes on housing for young people and heirs

Anna Mascaró

General policy debate

The opposition, regarding Prohens' announcement to allocate ITS funds to public housing: "She was the one who repealed it."

Maria Llull

"The 1990s were the most tragic decade for the torrents of Mallorca"

Héctor Rubio

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Bunk beds for 300 euros a month: around twenty people were sleeping in a place in Sant Antoni

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CEU Beato Luis Belda starts with 97% of the students from the Balearic Islands

Jaume Cladera Mas

Son Espases hospital overwhelmed after the storm: more than 60 patients are waiting for a room

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The body of a bather was found floating in Menorca during the DANA storm.

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Storm Adam collapses part of the roof of the old Iris Cinema in Palma and forces the closure of three nursery classrooms

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Cannibalistic chickens, cockroaches and mite-infested eggs: a poultry farm in Manacor is denounced

Héctor Rubio

Dolores Rial, the new deputy prosecutor of the Balearic Islands: "To end drug trafficking, we should end consumption"

Aina Vidal

Teresa Jiménez:

"Donating bone marrow has nothing to do with a spinal tap."

Marcos Torío

General elections

Those close to Vidal are reluctant to give Carme Gomila a free pass as a candidate.

Anna Mascaró

The OCB describes the legislature as a “black four-year period” for the language and culture of the Balearic Islands

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More than 2,200 objections against Aena's new solar park that threatens the Son Bonet environment

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Marí Bosó will repeat as the lead candidate for the Balearic PP in Congress on November 29th.

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The cost of housing is pushing 16,195 Balearic employees into poverty

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Periodisme lliure i compromès

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Esports

Mountain Cinema Special

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Vignette

The Encruya

Observatory

TWENTY-NINE, in capital letters

"My son could have stayed in the workshop and become a mechanic, but I advised him to leave."

Josep Maria Sastre

Tomeu Coll: "The interior life of Mallorca is over"

Cristina Ros

Shopkeepers are reaffirming the tradition of giving carnations as gifts for the Virgin Mary and encouraging people to buy them at local flower shops.

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"The doll demands attention": working from home with her children due to Storm Adam

Jaume Cladera Mas

With the support

The Piolet d'Or that champions a different way of doing mountaineering

Josep Genovard

The 2026 Mountain Film Festival is here!

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The Palma encampment is calling for neighborhood assemblies to prepare for the general housing strike on November 11.

Aina Vidal

Two men arrested for raping an unconscious woman in a house in Palma

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The Treasury will have its anti-drug trafficking operations center in the western Mediterranean in the Balearic Islands

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Ben Amics accuses a psychologist at Son Espases of transphobia after gathering 30 witnesses

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The war reaches space: a Russian satellite chases a Ukrainian one

Albert Sort

The leader of a Christian sect in Kenya was found guilty of nearly 200 murders.

Martí Fontané

Why has the province of Alberta considered seceding from Canada?

Quim Aranda

The White House Centennial Schools

Pere Sansó Crespí i Bartomeu Carrió Trujillano

The Fiet festival fills Vilafranca with family theatre, featuring 45 companies and four world premieres.

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Electoral shenanigans... the old-fashioned kind.

Francesc M. Rotger

Representatives of the coalition Ara Més - Broad Front

Ara Més-Front Ampli asks for the vote to "demand brave measures" for the Islands

The left closes 'in extremis' an electoral coalition with the name: Ara Més - Broad Front

If you want to save yourself from giving explanations, attack!

Joan Simonet, this Tuesday at the Parliament.

The Government sends inspectors to the Mirabò farm following the animalist complaint

The DANA leaves more than 70 litres in Calvià and Andratx

Church bottoms

The rector of the UIB, Jaume Carot.

Jaume Carot: "There are teachers who renounce the position because they cannot find a house"

“It leaves us in a situation of defenselessness”: Es Liceu denounces toxic burnings near the school

Teachers could earn up to 1,400 euros more for extraordinary payments

In the Fornells area an urban growth is being produced that has set off all the alarms.

In Menorca there is no water for everyone

The Government admits "some delay" in the aid to deal with the crisis of the war in Iran

The CPI shoots up to 5.1% in the Balearic Islands

Several people with the flag of Spain rebuke those camped for housing at Puerta del Sol, on October 12, 2026, in Madrid.

Who educates the young people who vindicate Francoism?

Dream of a summer nap

With my head in Spain: I loosen up so I don't have to choose

The writer Sebastià Serra.

Sebastià Alzamora wins the Lletra d’Or prize for ‘Sala Augusta followed by Llengua materna’

How was Miquel Brunet, according to his friend: “At the Porciúncula he met his musical father”

This ‘a’ that escapes us: is it really a Castilianism?

An archaeologist works at an excavation.

What do the prehistoric tombs of Mallorca hide?

What has become of the bones of the kings of Mallorca?

The vulnerable lives of the prison

A therapy session in 'The Sopranos'

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

Butter and nuts

How to make fish panadera with leek

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

This Tuesday an exhibition has been developed there as a preview of the show that will take place at the Velòdrom Illes Balears.

Motorcycles flying in front of the Cathedral: Palma presents the III SoloFlow Freestyle

Artà surrenders to Enric Mas after winning the Vuelta

The tower of Albarca, at the starting point of the GR 222

"People went crazy": 25 years of the show that turned television upside down

Alejandra Palés

Jonathan, the 194-year-old tortoise who can help us live longer

Sònia Sánchez

The old factory where a hundred professionals are testing another way of building

Mariona Ferrer i Fornells

Alessandro Baricco:

"We cannot forget all the good things we have just so that there are fascists."

Toni Padilla

"I'm obsessed with the women murdered during the Civil War."

Jordi Nopca

Anagrama Prize for a cry of alarm about the privatization of knowledge and the AI trap

Jordi Nopca

We threw stale bread in the trash but bought breadcrumbs

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

For bread and for salt

Butter and nuts

Caterina Gelabert

Terrifying Panellitos, Ada Parellada's Recipe

Ada Parellada

"Hispania is not for sale; we have joined forces with a passionate partner and will be making many more dishes."

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez