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Can Arabí tries to sneak a shell company into school cafeterias after being excluded.

Jaume Cladera Mas

A second minor has been arrested in connection with the fatal stabbing in Son Gotleu.

A company fined €3.6 million for abusing tenants participates in the Government's Housing Observatory

Maria Llull

Four islands, one country... New York!

Vicent Tur

Concha Alós, two-time Planeta Prize winner, marked by exes and saved by friends

Alba Tarragó

Four books to get to know Concha Alós, much more than just Baltasar Porcel's ex.

Alba Tarragó

The excavation of Talaiot 4 at Son Forners has unearthed a unique structure full of unanswered questions.

Joan Socies

The storm wreaks havoc on Ibiza

Héctor Rubio

Cort assures that no heritage elements have been destroyed in the construction of the 118 homes in Sant Jordi

Héctor Rubio

The Balearic Islands need 17,000 more homes to meet the current population.

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The opposition criticizes the second ring road project: another 240 million euros of the planned budget and "old concrete recipes"

M. Pinya

The expansion of Ibiza airport would affect protected areas of Ses Salines

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Social housing in Petra: Only for people under 35 years old who have lived in the town for 18 years.

T. P.

"Science and faith are two sides of the same coin": this is how a high school in Palma is trying to attract Religion students

Jaume Cladera Mas

Palma eliminates equality workshops for the second year in a row

Héctor Rubio

The new AI-related degree program launching this academic year in the Balearic Islands

Jaume Cladera Mas

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Open forum

The perfect storm over the Balearic Islands: The double plunder that leads us to self-hatred

"I'm not sure I'll write another book."

Sebastià Vanrell

Catalan as a welcoming language is the focus of the latest dialogue between the IEC and the ARA Baleares

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The OCB opens nominations for the December 31st awards, which this year reach their 40th edition

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Dolors Miquel, Biel Mesquida, Amparo Moliner and Laura Gost, protagonists of the Palma Catalan Book Week

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From blood-stained towels to a Satisfyer under the pillow: 28 years cleaning rooms in Magaluf

Marcos Torío

Is frying pan the islanders' favorite dish?

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A private university, questioned by the General Council of Nursing, was promoting itself using the Government's image.

Anna Mascaró and Jaume Cladera Mas

Four years in prison for the man who killed his brother with a hammer in Sa Pobla

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The PSOE wants residents to board EMT buses before tourists.

Héctor Rubio

Events in the Balearic Islands

Kilometer-long traffic jams on the ring road after the death of a man who fell from a bridge

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Poland says Russia is planning missile attacks against NATO countries

Núria Vila Masclans

The UN accuses the US of committing war crimes in Iran

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Russia votes in elections without guarantees and with Putin's popularity at a low ebb.

Albert Sort

Young people from Son Roca premiere at CineCiutat the documentary they have made about their neighborhood

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Mateu Matas 'Xurí': “All day long I was covered in rips and holes in my face and body”

Clàudia Darder

Rural schools that fought illiteracy

Antoni Janer Torrens

The estate of ses Planes borders on its south side with the Sineu road.

The Government denies definitively the 21-hectare photovoltaic park in Sencelles

MÉS rejects the 50 million passengers that the new DORA forecasts for the Balearic Islands' airports

"A star is born": The Government's strategy with Joan Simonet that slows down Vox but not the crisis in the countryside

The neighbors denounce that the works have affected several heritage constructions.

The residents of Sant Jordi denounce the disappearance of two constructions during the works to build apartments

The Council wants "a common front" to decide on Palma airport

Aemet raises to orange the alert for storms this Thursday

The UIB will train expert professionals in coeducation

Alfonso Díaz: "We want to be a very Mallorcan center"

Education authorized the 0-3 facilities of the charter school with unfinished walls

A man puts gasoline in Palma.

Fuels shoot inflation in the Balearic Islands up to 4.4%

The Mallorcan technology company Robot closes the sale to the Swedish group HMS for 21 million

More multi-property owners and more people without any apartment: the gap skyrockets in the Islands

Aporophobia spreads through cities.

Who helps the invisible ones?

The geopolitics of silence

The consequences

Poster of the tribute concert.

Cucorba receives the tribute of Majorcan music in Inca

Prohens highlights the work and the trajectory of Alzamora, National Poetry Prize

The Magician, a stage that cinema transformed into memory

Josep Renalias Wikipedia

Was the good king James II so good?

The joy of living of the workers of the tourist boom

The total solar eclipse of 1905 in Mallorca: scientists and smokeless factories

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The II Variat Fair is already here: changes and novelties to avoid last year's problems

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

Recipe for summer soups with figs: a fresh dish with local and seasonal produce

The hamlet of Les Coves was born between the 18th and 19th centuries from the consolidation of the settlements that took place there.

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

The hermitage of Betlem along the path of Can Canals

The Pudent pond, the legend of an estate under the waters

Friends and neighbors of Enric Mas traveled to Granada to accompany the cyclist from Artà in the final stage of the Vuelta.

Artà surrenders to Enric Mas after winning the Vuelta

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

The marina of Sa Vallet, the southern and driest extreme of Mallorca

Los Javis: the film that made them famous almost separated them

Kyle Buchanan / The New York Times

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Content in catalan

Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock, united by witchcraft

Ashley Spencer / The New York Times

Content in catalan

"I have always positioned myself on the left, with doubts and criticisms, but on the left nonetheless."

Pilar Gómez Rodríguez / La Maleta de Portbou

Is it necessary to read a story that doesn't resonate with us, even if it's well-written?

M. Àngels Cabré

"There is a difference in degree between being an author and a writer."

Jordi Nopca

The extreme pilgrimage undertaken by Werner Herzog

Pere Antoni Pons

Interview Diego Alías:

"We serve the first glass of wine, but then we leave the wine on the table; we are hospitable but not servants."

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

They neither raise cholesterol nor make you fat: peanuts help maintain cardiovascular health

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

For bread and for salt

Per pa i per sal |

Sea lightning

Caterina Gelabert

Is haute cuisine dead?

Rosa Rodon