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The Audit Office exposes the shortcomings of local councils: most fail to properly control spending

Jaume Perelló

Crisis in teacher recruitment: deserted specialties and a drop in candidates to record lows

Jaume Cladera Mas

Joan Carles March:

"The person who commits suicide doesn't want to die, they want to stop suffering."

Josep Genovard

Teachers will be public authorities: attacking them will have more serious consequences

Jaume Cladera Mas

The Consell will spend one million to promote Mallorca with Jaume Anglada

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The 2026 university entrance exams will debut anti-cheating detectors and toughen penalties for exam fraud.

Jaume Cladera Mas

Musk loses the legal battle of titans against Sam Altman over artificial intelligence

Àlex Gutiérrez

The flotilla bound for Gaza, with Mallorcan Toni Riera on board, was intercepted.

Héctor Rubio

Xesca Martí Llodrà:

"Many customers already consider second-hand products their first choice."

Josep Maria Sastre

Education opens disciplinary proceedings against the management of the IES CTEIB

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Not speaking the patient's language jeopardizes doctors' diagnoses

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The Ministry, regarding the complaints of accumulated corpses: "The refrigeration chambers are working correctly"

Aina Vidal

Palma residents protest against the noise from nightlife: "It's torture that destroys community life"

Héctor Rubio

The PP appeals to left-wing voters after Moreno Bonilla's insufficient victory

Anna Mascaró

They demand a halt to the transfer of sludge from the Sa Coma wastewater treatment plant to Ca na Putxa.

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Periodisme lliure i compromès

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Opinió

The Encruya

Open Forum

'Homo technologicus': Owners of the tool or slaves of the algorithm?

Cultural agenda

Don't miss a single one

The curse of being trapped in Léa Seydoux's body

Xavi Serra

La filla única |

We are no longer the cleansing you loved, nor are you the godmother I loved.

Alba Tarragó

It was and it wasn't...

Així era i no era... |

Carles Rebassa: “I wasn’t looking for trouble, but if there was any, I found it.”

Clàudia Darder

Sa Pobla has the best vermouth in the world

Josep Genovard

Pere Carbonell wins the Vila d'Ascó award with a novel set in Mallorca

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Five measures to help islanders own homes

Jaume Perelló

They are calling for an audit of the Palma 2031 bid after its "failure"

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Fourth week of doctors' strike to demand a framework statute

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Cuba warns the US that an attack on the island will "provoke a bloodbath".

Antònia Crespí Ferrer

The cruise ship 'MV Hondius' arrives in Rotterdam, where it will be disinfected following the hantavirus outbreak.

80 days without internet in Iran

Marta López

Mass prayer in Washington: "God is using Trump to bring Christ back to this country"

Antònia Crespí Ferrer

Mallorcans and Catalans: a dangerous friendship?

Francesc M. Rotger

The Mallorcans who fought the war on bicycles

Antoni Janer Torrens

For bread and for salt

Per pa i per sal |

A feast for the senses

Caterina Gelabert

Has the series already finished or has it not started yet?

Elga Cremades

A street full of people in Palma.

The Consell de Mallorca will promote a study on the island's population carrying capacity

Fina Santiago says 'no' to Apesteguia: MÉS per Mallorca's candidate race

Palm as a symptom

Aena's DORAIII plan allows for practically doubling the current capacity of Ibiza airport.

DORA the 'exploiter' lands at Ibiza airport

The dockhands of the Port of Andratx warn of "unaffordable" price increases

The peasant sector claims in Lloret that Mallorca could produce more food "if obstacles were not placed in the countryside"

PALMA. EDUCATION. Teacher examinations.

Advanced teaching exams in May: "A teacher with a young daughter has given up"

More than 200 educational centers will participate in the simultaneous singing of 'La Balanguera'

Common front against the PP for measures that threaten Catalan-language schools

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"

Marga Prohens.

Prohens' Safe Rental failure: now we also pay for renovations

15 years after the 15-M

The price of intelligence

The writer Carles Rebassa received the Sant Jordi prize at the revamped Night of Catalan Letters, held last Saturday, March 14.

Carles Rebassa: "Since I was 13 years old, I have received attacks for not switching to Castilian"

Island writers also join the non-fiction 'boom'

What are the authors from the Islands writing now?

The Castellers of Mallorca with a three of seven in May 2016 in Badalona.

30 years of the Castellers de Mallorca

When the earth shook in Mallorca

The last shepherd in ancient Mallorca

A therapy session in 'The Sopranos'

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

Cuttlefish with its ink, sobrassada and botifarró

First it was the egg

The narrow outlet of the waters of the Lofra valley towards the Ravine becomes a strategic point on our hike.

Easy excursion in Mallorca: Route through the Lofra valley

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

The rock of Mola, perched on the history of Galilea

Poster of the para-karate championship.

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

Christmas inaugurates the new museum in Manacor: "It's an intimate journey through my life"

The best photographs and the winners of the 2026 Mountain Photography Awards

The last witnesses of the Republican exile: "Life never had the same meaning again"

Laia Forès

The house that looks out over old dairy farms

Cristina Ros

Do you have to wait in line for five hours for a prom dress?

Sílvia Rosés

When is your half-birthday?

Mònica Planas Callol

Marta Pessarrodona:

"The only thing I'm afraid of is Alzheimer's."

Jordi Nopca

What if a computer virus allowed us to access the digital files of a deceased relative?

Anna Carreras Aubets

Spain as a verdict of destiny

Pere Antoni Pons

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

Rosa Rodon

From the world's most expensive fish to the superpowers of posidonia

Rosa Rodon

For bread and for salt

Cuttlefish with its ink, sobrasada and black pudding recipe

Caterina Gelabert

Interview Sergi de Meià:

"When I worked as a cook in a restaurant I was always angry; now I'm not, because I work for love."

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez