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The declassified Interior Ministry documents do not warn of a "high risk" of migrant arrivals in the Balearic Islands

Anna Mascaró

Events in the Balearic Islands

Emergency services are working to restore normality after more than 200 storm incidents in the Balearic Islands

The battle for public education is also being fought against the advance of private-public partnership schools.

Jaume Cladera Mas

Coming to Mallorca to learn Catalan and not being able to practice it

Núria Cerdà

Rels B, today in Palma: everything you need to know about the free concert

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The Parliament demands that the underwater mountains of the Mallorca Channel be declared a Marine National Park

Maria Llull

The Government is processing the Son Bonet photovoltaic park again, which the Parliament unanimously rejected.

Jaume Perelló

The Consell now wants to promote Mallorca as an olive oil tourism destination

Maria Llull

Events in the Balearic Islands

A stinging boss wreaks havoc on the Son Sardina estate: "It's like a bomb has been dropped"

Héctor Rubio

The leader of the Luxury Home mega-scam has been arrested in Barcelona after nine months on the run.

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The director of nursing at Son Espases resigns due to disagreements with the manager

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Residents of Puerto de Andratx denounce the "hell" of the construction work on the mountain: "It's an environmental outrage"

Interview Belkacem Bouchouala:

"Do you think that if you collected all these rents, you would work in a phone booth?"

Sebastià Vanrell

The first day of school, amidst new backpacks and old problems: "I'm not thinking about the PISA tests today."

Jaume Cladera Mas

When Bach enters a cage: Inca's project gaining international attention

J. Mayol

Satse demands the immediate dismissal of the manager of Son Espases

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Migration crisis

The government accuses Sánchez of hiding information about migrant arrivals: "They only declassify what suits them."

Anna Mascaró

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Open forum

The results that surprised no one

Mallorca Council

The Council has given away flags to mark the Diada on September 12th.

M. Pinya

"Mallehaters go home": the German song that defends tourism on the 'Ballermann 6'

Héctor Rubio

Autumn will be warmer than usual, following a record-breaking summer in the Balearic Islands.

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The house of the poet Guillem Colom is for sale for 1.5 million euros in the center of Sóller

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Rats, filth and unusable bathrooms: residents denounce the decline of the slaughterhouse

Héctor Rubio

Can Canut opens in Binissalem: "We want to remove the aura of experts that alienates the consumer from wine"

Aina Vidal

The Council will commission a new, "more robust and extensive" audit before deciding on the Tirme concession.

Mercè Pinya

A 63-year-old woman drowned during the storm in Felanitx

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A thief drags a shop assistant with his car to escape after stealing perfumes in Marratxí

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Arrested for breaking both wrists of a Palma airport worker

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A tourist is in serious condition after drowning on a beach in Peguera

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Trump seeks a miracle in Dallas and promises a $5,000 check if Republicans win the midterms

Antònia Crespí Ferrer

Why is the AfD the most feared far-right party in Europe?

Núria Sala Ventura and Víctor Sanz Guerrero

US bombs five Iranian oil tankers and Tehran responds with attacks in Jordan

Antònia Crespí Ferrer

Night of Art 2026

Palma's Night of Art celebrates 30 years with a hundred artists

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Musicologist Bárbara Duran compiles half a century of choral singing in Sant Joan in a book

T. P.

The B! Fair returns to Palma with more than 80 music and performing arts events

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Last meeting of the Pact for Sustainability

The PP and Vox block the Government from giving explanations about the Pact for sustainability

The Egyptian swimming pool of Sant Antoni makes the water glass of Ibiza overflow

The Government opens proceedings for the artificial lake at the Sant Antoni party

The former director of the Foundation, Aniol Esteban and the new manager, Pablo Rodríguez

Pablo Rodríguez, new director of Marilles

Strong storms, floods and more than 150 incidents in the Balearic Islands

Real estate developers ask to build apartments without having the water for them guaranteed

Xavier Ferriol president of the Federation of Families (FAPA Mallorca)

Where should education go after PISA: "We must stop the pedagogical reform and look at what we are doing"

The PISA hangover marks the start of the academic year: "We cannot contrast skills and knowledge"

The PISA results portray an educational system in permanent storm: it is not one column that trembles, but the entire building

The president and chief executive officer of Aena, Maurici Lucena.

Aena says that the Balearic airport co-management law is "unconstitutional" and threatens to act if it is approved

Unemployment rises in the Balearic Islands in August despite there being 26,872 more affiliates than a year ago

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

Youths participate in an aura battle in Seville on September 1, 2026

Ears

The flag

Nationalist heritage

Calvià has appeared in infinite film shoots and other productions.

Calvià, a film set by the seashore

Algaida becomes a great open-air art space with more than 30 exhibition spaces

The Atlàntida Mallorca Film Fest closes the edition with 1.57 million views on Filmin

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

A therapy session in 'The Sopranos'

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

Xisca Alzamora: "Home cooking has a price and what they take out of a bag should have another"

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

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"

"It's not just about rebuilding, it's about preserving a culture": three years after the Morocco earthquake

Fabio Lovati

"Pablo Neruda helped us": Living memory of those who fled Franco by sea

Iker Mons

Morgan Freeman:

"I will work as hard as I can, as long as someone keeps asking me, 'Do you want to do this role?'"

Jonathan Abrams / The New York Times

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Content in catalan

The day Mercè Rodoreda went to see 'Emmanuelle'

Jordi Nopca

When a universe is confirmed to be even larger

Jaume C. Pons Alorda

A good book against domestication

Anna Carreras Aubets

For bread and for salt

Per pa i per sal |

Summer soup recipe with figs: a fresh dish with local and seasonal produce

Caterina Gelabert

The family that laser-engraves your name on table olives: the innovation that wants to break into the market from Terra Alta

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

The scallops we buy in cans will be real scallops from January onwards.

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

Macaroni and cheese, Ada Parellada's recipe

Ada Parellada