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Public transport

Standing passengers even in October: TIB's overcrowding doesn't end with summer

Mercè Pinya

Mayor of Manacor

Ferran Montero, the new mayor of Manacor: "Power passes, but responsibility remains."

The tourist rental employers' association praises the new VAT because it will professionalize the sector

Jaume Perelló

A driver dies and the co-driver is seriously injured after falling into a ravine during a rally in Mallorca.

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The jury finds the man guilty of murder for killing his partner with 66 stab wounds in Palma

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What do we do with dead trees?

Cristina Ros

Incidents in the Balearic Islands

Minute of silence in Sant Llorenç for the eighth anniversary of the flash flood in which 13 people died

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The 70 Balearic rivers we only remember when it rains

Juan Calvo

Josep Castells:

"Mallorcan centralism doesn't want to rule, it just wants to avoid being angered."

Maria Llull

Governing Council

The Government calls on economic sectors to address the increase in fuel prices

Anna Mascaró

The Blackstone vulture fund and the 50 million from Ibiza worsen the accusations of the PSIB and MÁS regarding Tirme

Mercè Pinya

Afedeco reviews the expansion of the ORA: "Businesses shouldn't find out until the decision has already been made"

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38 years of psychiatric confinement for the man who killed and burned his mother and brother in Manacor

Sebastià Vanrell

Mallorca Council

A PP councilor is demanding that the UN allow the Sahara to vote on independence after Vox's attack on cooperation.

Mercè Pinya

Pablo's clan laundered 20 million euros from drug trafficking to buy dozens of houses in La Soledad

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The PSOE is pressing for unity on its left: "Please, come to an agreement."

Marc Toro and Gerard Fageda

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Open forum

We talked clearly, on World Mental Health Day

Vignette

The Encruya

Open forum

What kind of Palma do we want?

Álvarez Bravo, Catany and Strand bring Mexico to Mallorca

Cristina Ros

Crítica literària |

What is a mother capable of?

Jaume C. Pons Alorda

Nobel Prize in Literature for Anne Carson's bold and imaginative poetry

Núria Juanico Llumà

The society of indifference

Miquel Àngel Ballester

Content in catalan

Check the weather forecast for the weekend in the Balearic Islands here.

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From Pink Floyd to Judas Priest: psychedelia, cocaine and records in the Balearic Islands

Celestí Oliver

Two students give up on starting Medicine at the UIB: "They haven't found housing"

Jaume Cladera Mas

Menorca will keep an outdated control tower while Aena expands the airport

David Marquès

Ben Amics denounces that the IB-Salut discriminates against trans people when changing the name on the health card

Aina Vidal

The general elections storm into the plenary session of the Consell and ignite the confrontation between the PP and Vox

Mercè Pinya

A thousand people claim the role of the third sector in mental health in Sineu

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Maritime transport

Hauliers warn that the fuel surcharge increase will further raise prices in the Balearic Islands

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French students 'storm' the Bastille: "We will continue until Macron gives in"

Víctor Sanz Guerrero

An ICE agent shoots a Dominican migrant and his five-year-old son in New York

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Hegseth says the execution of a military prisoner in the US will be "public"

Antònia Crespí Ferrer

The 'The Language That Is Sung' series reflects on four decades of music and linguistic normalization

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The brothers behind ALDI: the dispute that split the chain in two

Marc Amat

Experts debate in Mallorca on the limits of artificial intelligence

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Virgilio Moreno during the presentation act in Inca.

Virgilio Moreno, candidate for the mayoralty of Inca for the 2027 elections

The PSIB and MÉS denounce the "illegal leak" of the data of the aid to Pilar López

The PP and Vox accuse the unions of calling a strike against the opposition

A street in Sant Llorenç days after the flash flood.

Eight years after the Sant Llorenç flash flood, the works continue at half way

The Balearic Islands would need 1.435 billion until 2035 to deal with the drought and the risk of floods

Sharing a flat with strangers is no longer just a thing for young people in the Balearic Islands

Facade of the Supreme Court in Madrid

The Supreme Court annuls the decree against 'dummy' universities following the Government's appeal

Families demand from Vera the inclusive education decree and more resources for the centers

43.6% of Medicine students at the UIB rank among the best in the MIR

The annual act of the Guillem Cifre de Colonya Foundation.

The Guillem Cifre Foundation contributed 1.13 million to 551 activities in 2025

Casa 47 puts out to tender 43 affordable homes in the North district of Palma

Palma takes a step forward to build 623 homes in Son Puigdorfila

The society of indifference

The society of indifference

3 ‘Abascals’ and 851 ‘Maricarmens’

Three narrators for a new time

Poster of the play 'When the squadron came'.

Catalina Solivellas recovers the memory of a pre-tourist Mallorca with ‘When the squadron came’

The Joan March of Palma claims the art of Saul Steinberg, "the writer who draws"

Pitxorines brings its Majorcan folk to the music fairs of Manresa and Bilbao

Miramar Chapel.

A language school seven centuries before tourism

Call it whatever you want... but not Catalan

Heriberto Quiñones, the uncomfortable Soviet partner of Aurora Picornell

A therapy session in 'The Sopranos'

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

Miquel Llabrés i Maria Llabrés: "Our daughters have preferred to study, running the Cafè Ca'n París is a very big sacrifice"

Spinach and eggplant omelette recipe

View of the La Mola lighthouse from the cliffs of Punta Roja, coastal border of the east of Formentera.

The Mola of Formentera, an isolated and imposing plateau

From Ferreries to Cala Galdana via the Torrepetxina staircase

From the Caves to the Potteries, through the surroundings of Santa Eugènia

This Tuesday an exhibition has been developed there as a preview of the show that will take place at the Velòdrom Illes Balears.

Motorcycles flying in front of the Cathedral: Palma presents the III SoloFlow Freestyle

Artà surrenders to Enric Mas after winning the Vuelta

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

An American in the paradise of Montjoi

Ignasi Aragay

The Strokes, the band that's always in style

Jordi Garrigós

The day the Pope had to accept putting his security in the hands of a woman

Mònica Planas Callol

The art of lying: from being a sin to becoming a 'trending topic'

Jordi Nopca

The day Henry James stopped being "just a fat, bald, white man who wrote a lot"

Jordi Nopca

"The best gift for a child is time."

Francesc Orteu

For bread and for salt

Per pa i per sal |

Recipe for pigeons stuffed with herbs

Caterina Gelabert

The natural sweetness of the Middle Ages that farmers today still come to the market for (and it's good)

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

Chicken in the breastfeeding stage, Ada Parellada's recipe

Ada Parellada

How much longer will we have to wait for the mushrooms to appear?

Aniol Costa-Pau