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The Spanish government delegation has not heard anything about the report on the June 26th events more than a month later

Maria Llull

The Balearic Islands break a new tourist record up to July: almost 200,000 more than in 2025

Maria Llull

"A rare disease changed my life, and tattoos gave it back to me."

Maria Llull

The Education list: hard-to-fill teaching specialties that will receive a supplement

Jaume Cladera Mas

Former head of communications at Son Espases denounces humiliations: "You shut up, you have no idea"

Héctor Rubio

PP and PSOE clash over Pollença's accounts with two opposing interpretations of the liquidation

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From 84 euros for a consultation to 177,735 for a transplant: the invisible bill of public healthcare

Jaume Cladera Mas

Public healthcare treats tourists free of charge: “They were having a snack by the villa's pool and the visit wasn't charged or recorded.”

Jaume Cladera Mas

The invisible cost of tourists

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The rehabilitation of the Puig de Sant Pere wall begins using traditional techniques

Héctor Rubio

Four illegal tourist apartments reported and €27,400 in transport fines issued in Ibiza

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A worker at Palma airport was attacked while demanding a resident discount.

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Would you buy some talayots? They sell them in Montuïri, at S'Hort de Sabor.

Joan Socies

The PSIB brings the ecotax back to Parliament: "Time is running out"

Anna Mascaró

IB-Salut denies the gap in care for tourists: "It's not just the tip of the iceberg"

Jaume Cladera Mas

Hoteliers propose more control over tourist rentals, and the response is: "Let everyone clean up their own house."

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Periodisme lliure i compromès

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Obituary

Celestí Alomar has died

Observatory

Anthological Pollensa

Open forum

Mobility at a standstill, forgotten villages

Open tribune

Aena is not the problem

Vignette

The crossroads

Enric Mas, leader of La Vuelta, says: "When we go to a restaurant for dinner, he brings his own pasta."

Clàudia Darder

Free week in Catalan

Llompart, Rodoreda, Estellés and Oliver share a bench at the Catalan Book Week in Palma

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Xisca Alzamora:

"Home-cooked food has a price, and food pulled out of a bag should have another."

Sebastià Vanrell

Why do we show our butts but not our breasts?

Sílvia Rosés

Així era i no era... |

David Pujol, according to his friend Antoni Trobat: "He was taught that things don't fall from the sky"

Clàudia Darder

Celestí Alomar, the first Tourism Minister of the Pact and promoter of the ecotax, has died.

Héctor Rubio

The OCB is urging the new German consul to promote Catalan among residents in Mallorca.

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Nurseries are pressuring the Education Department to stop bringing forward the start of the school year in some centers.

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The driver of the fatal accident in Portocristo, in which a 23-year-old woman died, has been arrested.

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Germany accuses Russia of attempted drone attack at Leipzig airport

Núria Sala Ventura

The United States launches a new attack against Iranian targets

Antònia Crespí Ferrer

The surprise appearance of the Russian finance minister at the G-20 fuels doubts about Trump's intentions.

Antònia Crespí Ferrer

La filla única |

Being a 'pond' is the worst nightmare: we have no personality, we're snobs

Alba Tarragó

The Balearic musicians behind Rosalía, Rels B and Guitarricadelafuente

Celestí Oliver

When two Chuetas said enough: the Cartagena dispute that shook 19th-century Mallorca

Francesc M. Rotger

Celestí Alomar during an event as Minister of Tourism (1999 and 2003)

The political world bids farewell to Celestí Alomar: "One of the great men of this homeland of ours"

They resume this Tuesday the excavations of the V Plan of graves in Son Servera

Celestí Alomar's final tribute to the party he helped found

The firefighters have rescued the canyoner who fell from seven meters in height

A man is seriously injured after falling seven meters while canyoning in Sóller

The Balearics authorize 2,865 new wells in three and a half years despite the extreme situation of the aquifers

They call off the strike at Son Reus due to accusations of scabbing and announce a legal offensive

A person undergoes an operation.

The waiting list to be operated grows by 18% in the Balearic Islands and reaches 116 days

The PSIB accuses the Government of "shielding" the subsidized nursery schools while abandoning the municipal ones

The nursery schools announce a general strike and a "hot September"

Tourists in the center of Palma.

The Balearic Islands receive 9.16 million international tourists until July, 1.8% more

Celestí Alomar: "We cannot be subjected to the dictatorship of tourism"

Diversifying is possible, according to the few who dare to leave the tourist monoculture

Palma Airport

Tourism, at the service of whom?

Celestí Alomar, thank you very much

Asimov and the infinite water of the Balearic Islands

Image of the work 'All the angels took flight'

The Principal opens the sale of season tickets and tickets for the 2026-2027 season

Mahler, a point apart

Rodrigo Cuevas unleashes euphoria at the Nits de Tanit festival in Ibiza

Two Mallorcan women with the Swiss expedition of the 1905 eclipse. 'The total solar eclipse in Majorca of 1905'.

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

The dystopias of Mallorca made reality

The princes of Monaco: allies and heirs of the kings of 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

Summer cod

Almond preparations

The hermitage of Macari is the setting of a legend about this real character from the 19th century, originally from Felanitx.

The hermitage of Betlem along the path of Can Canals

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

The paths of Llucmaçanes, sinuous freshness, beauty and genuineness

The tower of Albarca, built on the tip of La Falconera in 1751 to watch the channel between Mallorca and Menorca, then British.

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

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

Tennis player Nick Kyrgios, provisionally suspended after testing positive for cocaine in Mallorca: "I have made a serious mistake"

A house without excesses

Cristina Ros

Trip to Georgia: unspoiled nature and Soviet remnants

Núria Vila Masclans

Sara Campanales: leaving the city to go live in the jungle

Toni Padilla

Gaea Schoeters:

"By hunting an endangered animal, you can encourage the government to help its species."

Jordi Nopca

A great book in a seemingly modest way

Jordi Llavina

"Before, people had children while doing a thousand other things, and now these projects are on the same list as doing a doctorate or a trip to India."

Lara Bonilla

A guide to where and what to eat in Formentera (made by a local person)

Pau Jiménez Nicolás

Per pa i per sal |

Stuffed mutton thigh, a traditional recipe linked to the peasantry

Caterina Gelabert

Figs, with or without skin?

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

"The name 'red wine' dates back to the Franco era, when they didn't like to say 'red wines', but in Calonge we have always called it 'red wine'"

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez