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The Prohens government is already spending more on senior officials and advisors than Armengol's government did.

Anna Mascaró

Water Resources

Urban planning amnesty reaches large villas: San José legalizes four and three swimming pools

Jaume Perelló

The GOB is still awaiting a response from Prohens to the meeting request of July 27.

Maria Llull

The UIB will launch the degree in Marine Sciences in the 2026-2027 academic year

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Mathematics reveals the secret of the plague that killed 6,000 Mallorcans in 1820

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The Balearic Sea breaks heat records and experiences three months of "marine heatwave"

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A 36-year-old tourist died in Valldemossa after the bus he was waiting for hit a lamppost and it fell on him.

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Controversy in Biniaraix over a private party that took over the town square during the Patron Saint's Day festivities

Aina Vidal

The heat is accelerating the grape harvest in Mallorca, which has already exceeded 1.5 million kilos of grapes.

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A worker was injured after falling from a sixth floor while working in Palma.

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The GOB denounces that cars continue to park in Cala Llombards despite a court ruling that upholds the ban

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“We want to swim in the Dock again”: Arrels Marines demands to recover the coastline of Puerto de Pollença

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Periodisme lliure i compromès

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Opinion

Ferran Navinés Josep Valero,

Reduce tourism to grow better

Vignette

The Encruya

From 'Me lo dijo Pérez' to 'El Puente': the tourist songs that projected Mallorca to the world

Antoni Janer Torrens

Lax'n'Busto returns to Felanitx 20 years later

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Així era i no era... |

What Antoni Torrens was like: "A person full of light; he never had hatred inside him"

Clàudia Darder

La filla única |

No, we're not some chill chick.

Alba Tarragó

The journey to Atlantis

Miquel Àngel Ballester

Historical memory

The silent rollback of the democratic memory law in the regions governed by the PP and Vox

Roger Hernandez Pujol

An illegal tourist house in Santa Eulària has been sealed off and fined €275,000.

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A man was arrested for taking a nap in Palma while his grandchildren played on the ledge of a third-floor apartment.

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The doctor in Gaza who didn't want to abandon his patients

Cristina Mas

The agreement between the United States and Iran expires: what has changed in two months?

Ethel Bonet

The "modern socialist city" that Xi Jinping dreams of and that is already under construction

Dolors Rodríguez Puerto

When the '-axis-' eclipses the '-esc-'

Catalina Pons Vidal

Island rock is rejuvenated

Celestí Oliver

Laura del Pino: "Jamaican music was my gateway to the songs of the sixties"

Laura Santos

La filla única |

Dear straight white friends

Alba Tarragó

Mallorca, the paradise of sundials

Antoni Janer Torrens

Neus Truyol.

MÉS per Palma asks for more trees, shade and climate shelters: "The PP's regulations are not ambitious enough"

The ups and downs of the Prohens Government's high-ranking officials: 142 changes in three years

Rafel 'Coca', a multifaceted man: Politician, promoter of the Bassa skyscraper and manager of Cine Goya

Alaró, es Castell, and Santa Maria are some of the municipalities that have confirmed that topless is not regulated.

Four-year-old child dies from drowning in a swimming pool in Pollença

A truck catches fire on the Andratx highway and causes long traffic jams to the ring road

Sant Antoni rejects an artificial lake made with water for an Egyptian party

Children's students from an educational center in Mallorca.

The College of Teachers suspends Prohens' educational legislature (despite the money they have given/promised them)

The UIB is no longer among the best 1,000 universities in the world

The state-subsidized nursery schools, pointed out for obliging educators to clean and cook

People at Palma airport in a file image.

Palma airport will exceed capacity more than half of the days in August, according to Eurocontrol

Unemployment falls 2% in the Balearic Islands

The number of tourists continues to grow in the Balearic Islands: 6.6 million until June

The author of the article with two friends and their babies

FOMO, GOMO, ROMO and other summer neuroses

Exit

The smell of the eclipse

The museum of footwear and leather bets on industrial heritage

The Museum of Footwear and Industry of Inca joins the International Council of Museums

Time for monographs

Did Odysseus pass through the Balearic Islands?

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

Cod with summer vegetables in the Mongil style.

Summer cod

Almond preparations

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

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

Enric Mas, in blue, with his friends.

How was Enric Mas, according to his friend: "When we go to dinner at a restaurant he brings his own pasta"

Les Alqueries, key point on the long transhumance route

The 'secret' viewpoints of Son Ferrà, proud and discreet

Així era i no era... |

First, the yard; the house, later.

Cristina Ros

A bird that is a symbol of life, fertility, and abundance

Òscar Domínguez

A century sailing with the most Catalan vessel

Toni Padilla

Lorca's last hours: all the open questions about the poet's murder

Sílvia Marimon

Esty Quesada (Soy una Pringada) recommends a book that "captures the essence of the United States"

Xavi Serra

10 memorable literary and cinematic eclipses

Jordi Nopca and Xavi Serra

For bread and for salt

Per pa i per sal |

Summer cod

Caterina Gelabert

For bread and salt

Per pa i per sal |

Almond preparations

Caterina Gelabert

Interview Sílvia Subirós i Mercader:

"My father has never taken a vacation, not even a day off, and the verb 'to rest' is not part of his vocabulary."

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

The two dishes and the cooking course that tourists ask the receptionists of the hotels where they are staying

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez