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The Government admits that the Marine Conservation Plan it presented in February is "a statement of intent"

Maria Llull

Nothing threatens Ibiza's political oasis (except the upcoming elections)

Vicent Tur

A teacher from the Canary Islands explains how to achieve a C1 level in Catalan in three years: "I'm still learning."

Jaume Cladera Mas

Songs, warmth and authorities: the Misericordia school brings together a thousand students to sing 'La Balanguera'

A minor steals a car at gunpoint in Calvià after escaping from school

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'Malle'

Sebastià Alzamora

Martí Fluxà Sansó, living memory of the Manacorí trot and of an unrepeatable era

Joan Caldentey

'La Balanguera' makes us Mallorcan

Pau Torres

A massive singing of 'La Balanguera' unites all the municipalities of Mallorca

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'La Balanguera' will be playing this Friday in all Eroski stores in Mallorca.

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He attacks his mother and barricades himself in Palma armed with a knife: "I'll kill them all"

The Government attacks Aena over the 'Malle' banner: "They have exhausted our patience, they are laughing at the islanders"

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Institute of Legal Medicine

The Ministry of Justice will reinforce the Balearic Islands Institute of Legal Medicine with 13 professionals.

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Algaida creates the role of Police Referent to care for the elderly

Josep Maria Sastre

Permanent imprisonment

Life imprisonment with review for the man who killed his mother-in-law in Colonia de Sant Jordi

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Avícola Son Perot wants to build an 80,000 hen farm near Manacor

Sebastià Vanrell

SIAU denounces irregularities in the Electoral Board for Artistic Education and demands that union elections be brought forward.

Jaume Cladera Mas

There will be no Flexas party in Parque del Mar: they denounce the lack of support from Cort.

Héctor Rubio

A shack made from trailer trailers has been sealed off in a rural area of Petra.

Aina Vidal

Miquel Oliver announces his candidacy to lead MÁS in the Consell de Mallorca

Anna Mascaró

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Menorca is experiencing a delicate water situation, and water is an increasingly scarce resource.

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Appreciating Mallorca also means caring for the government.

Can restaurant kitchens be a refuge for people with autism?

Pete Wells / The New York Times

Content in catalan

Interview Alba Segarra:

"In a small town there is great freedom because there is a community that takes care of it."

Elena García Dalmau

"Mallorca looks like a safari": the song about overtourism in the Balearic Islands

Josep Genovard

Provisional jail for the woman accused of killing her mother-in-law in Pere Garau

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“What happens in Malle stays in Malle”: the airport’s German-language advertising sparks outrage among residents

Aina Vidal

Joan Moranta, new president of the GOB Mallorca

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Zelensky sends a desperate letter to Trump

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Singapore, the silent washing machine of Russian oil

Josep Solano

Israeli extremists pressure Netanyahu over Trump's "capitulation" in Iran

Catherine Carey

The United States and Iran exchange attacks, while Israel intensifies its offensive in Lebanon.

Núria Vila Masclans

The Cinema Lliure festival returns to the beaches of Mallorca with eight nights of films and short films

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Periferia Cultural arrives in Mallorca for the first time with an edition marked by memory and traditional culture

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"If we had gone for commercial pop, we would have a house in Mallorca."

Josep Genovard

"The responsibility for language is placed on artists, when it also belongs to institutions."

Josep Genovard

The controversial advertising campaign at Palma airport.

Aena justifies the controversial 'Malle' advertising at the airport and denies responsibility for the overcrowding

Prohens will sing 'La Balanguera' accompanied by hundreds of students at La Misericòrdia

A resident of the old prison: "The Court has not offered us dignified alternatives, I live surrounded by rats"

A Guardia Civil agent.

A worker dies in Alaior after falling from the roof of an industrial building

Yellow alert in Mallorca for extreme thermometers in the interior

"We will not go down to the beach": Palma lifeguards plant the City Council and threaten strike

A nurse collecting blood donations, in a file image

The Government will incorporate 200 specialist nurses to reinforce Primary Care

Education limits interim teachers to guarantee Catalan: teaching and subject positions will not go through the urgent procedure

The Government reinforces the metro and public transport to facilitate access to the UIB during the PAU

Menorca seeks solutions to the housing emergency of its towns and cities.

Menorca promotes the purchase of empty buildings

The Government allocates 1.59 million to the Zero Quota aid for self-employed workers

Rosa Sureda: "You have to work many hours to be self-employed and run a store"

The former president of the Spanish Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

Chinese vases

The grammar of security

Elections are smelled

The image that Flem uses to promote the scholarship.

New scholarship for writers: 500 euros, 10 days in a hotel in Magaluf and literary residency

The Prado exhibits two medieval works from the Museum of Mallorca in a large exhibition on Mediterranean Gothic

The OCB of Inca presents the May awards, a recognition of the language, culture, and history of the Balearic Islands

Demonstration organized by GOB and the neighborhood associations of Maó on December 22, 1985 in the Plaça de l’Esplanada of Maó.

The pioneering ecological struggle of Menorca

The theatre author who reinvented Sa Pobla

30 years of the Castellers de Mallorca

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

Tickets for benefactors and guests

The 10 best Mexican cuisine restaurants in the Balearic Islands

The Rocafort rock offers a beautiful and spectacular panoramic view of the Sóller valley and the central massif of the Tramuntana.

Penya Rocafort, from where all the charms of Sóller are seen

Easy excursion in Mallorca: Route through the Lofra valley

The Stove, the most singular midday of the island of Formentera

Still from the trailer of the documentary by Rafel Nadal

Netflix premieres the trailer for 'Rafa', the documentary series about Rafel Nadal

Netflix premieres the trailer for 'Rafa', the documentary series about Rafel Nadal

Mallorca hosts the first para-karate championship with students from Aspace

The Sacred Valley of Dersim, where cultural resistance and ecological reverence coexist

Nicola Zolin

Greenland, between ice and sea

Xavier Bertral

Anne Hathaway: "I felt that if I didn't grow more as an artist, they would end up eating me alive"

Joe Coscarelli i Jon Caramanica / The New York Times

Content in catalan

The house shaped like a slice of pizza

Cristina Ros

The legendary cartoonist Jordi Amorós, the subversive 'Ja', has died.

Laura Serra

Scandal in the literary world: an artificial intelligence may have won the Commonwealth Prize

Jordi Nopca

Spain as a verdict of destiny

Pere Antoni Pons

For bread and for salt

Recepta tradicional |

Nun's doughnuts

Caterina Gelabert

Is a potato omelet less caloric if we leave it to rest in the refrigerator?

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

The 10 best Mexican restaurants in the Balearic Islands

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Where to eat in Berlin: from currywurst to kebab to caviar ice cream

Rosa Rodon