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Accident de tren

At least 68 dead in a crash between two high-speed trains in Toledo

Natàlia Vila , Marc Toro , Núria Rius Montaner and Martí Odriozola i Marcé

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Puente sees "inexplicable" that an operator ordered the AVE to resume movement with a train stopped on the track

Núria Rius and Natàlia Vila

The account of the victims of the Toledo train accident: “The seats and the people were flying out”

Martí Odriozola i Marcé

A Majorcan woman, among the injured in the Toledo train accident

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Content in Catalan

The train accident in Toledo, in images

Ferran Forné and Albert Diumenjó Segalà

Andrés Bernstein:

“We do not have enough information to say that the Blocus call is a false flag operation”

Mercè Pinya

An analysis of digital platforms finds no signs of activity from the Blocus network in either Palma or Ibiza

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More and more centers in Mallorca (many, public) prioritize the children of former students

Jaume Cladera Mas

Did you know that before Halloween in Mallorca they already used to hollow out pumpkins?

Josep Genovard

The trial of Gabriel Le Senne for a hate crime will be from October 25 to 29, 2027

Maria Llull

Antonio Pérez Navarro: "We must stop growing in number of tourists and grow in well-being"

Héctor Rubio

A family looks for two young Algerians who tried to arrive swimming to Formentera

Jahmila Canale/ Radioilla

"Compatible to work in the public healthcare and in the private one is a gold mine"

Jaume Cladera Mas

Bàrbara Torrent:

“Coming to live in a nursing home should always be the last option”

David Marquès

Cala Estància is at risk of disappearing before 2050

Mercè Pinya

The PP approves the Capitality Law with the left and angers Vox: "It is a lack of respect"

Anna Mascaró

The Baccalaureate modality that is skyrocketing in the Balearic Islands

Jaume Cladera Mas

Biel Mesquida and the Correllengua Agermanat, 31st of December awards of the OCB

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The TC forces (for the moment) the PP to apply the Balearic memory law to avoid the "lack of protection of the victims"

Anna Mascaró

Council of Mallorca

The Council increases by almost 70% the aid to town councils to manage cat colonies

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Periodisme lliure i compromès

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Vignette

The Crossroads

The short film 'The echo of the gaze', by Carles Bover, will opt for the Goya for best short documentary

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From 'It' to 'The Conjuring', at the longest horror marathon in Mallorca

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Cata Coll's speech at the Ballon d'Or gala, in Catalan: "This award is also from Mallorca"

Josep Genovard

Alfonso García:

"Traditions force us to stop, to meet each other and not to be so individual"

Josep Genovard

With the support

Interview Mix Manresa:

"I all alone would not have arrived even to the airport"

Josep Genovard

Interview Jaume Carrió:

"Denying climate change is a negligence, a stupidity too great"

Josep Genovard

Searching for 'La innocència' in the Serra de Tramuntana

Héctor Rubio

This is the poster for Dijous Bo

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Scientists from the UIB confirm that protecting the Menorca Channel helps marine species to adapt to environmental changes

M. P.

Catalan is at the tail end: it is the subject with the worst results in the second year of ESO in the Balearic Islands

Jaume Cladera Mas

Son Espases frees up 32 beds every week with a unit for operated patients

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Flávio Bolsonaro lands in the United States after the Brazilian authorities asked him to hand over his passport

Joaquim Piera

Israel's settlers impose terror in the West Bank: "When they finish with one community they go to the next"

Cristina Mas

Netanyahu wins the elections in Israel, but it will be very difficult for him to form a majority

Catherine Carey Arribas

Elisabet Femenies Mascaró:

"I miss Mallorca a lot, especially family, friends and the beach"

Josep Maria Sastre

The 'battleship box' and other pearls from the material list of a school in Palma

Héctor Rubio

"They laughed at me for speaking Majorcan in Majorca"

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Carme Gomila accompanied by the rest of the members of the Ara Més-Front Ampli list for the general elections

Gomila (Ara Més) makes a call to sovereignist voters: "We know the problems of these Islands"

Prohens demands a strong police presence given the risk of riots by Blocus in Palma

Rafael González, GxF candidate for the presidency of the Council of Formentera

Minute of silence in Palma for the accident in Toledo.

A Mallorcan woman, among the injured in the Toledo train accident

The merchants of Palma, fearful of the Blocus protest: "Close earlier and ask your insurance if it covers you"

Private healthcare already concentrates 9.3% of the Balearic Islands' health budget

Facade of the ESADIB, in Palma.

How are actors trained with the body? Palma hosts some conferences on body expression

Llull dynamites the economic management of educational centers: "It is as if you bought a car and they gave you a bicycle"

STEI warns about it: Education takes up to 1,210 euros per year from teachers with legal guardianship leave

A worker in the center of Palma.

Unemployment falls by 10,000 people in the Balearic Islands and employment reaches a record in the third quarter

The Balearics, at the forefront in foreign tourists in September with 1.7 million

A 5G network that is deployed in minutes and AI to detect problems: the new features from Telefónica

The storm of Monday in Palma.

Was it necessary to suspend classes on Monday?

From the leftist Spanishization to the PP-Vox reform of the Statute

The straightener

Jaume Miranda and his sister Cristina

How was Jaume Miranda, according to his sister: "As a child he used to read with a napkin on his head"

Carles Alberola wins the Born Theatre prize 2026 with 'Marble Tears'

Islanders: the forgotten ones of the Crown of Aragon

Can Sales women's prison in Palma (September 24, 1941), where there were women from Menorca imprisoned.

The anti-fascist women repressed from Menorca

The centenary schools of the White House

What do the prehistoric tombs of Mallorca hide?

Soup without water, nor fire nor pot, from the Caules recipe book, from the 18th century.

An autumn pot

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

Butter and nuts

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

The route to Yerupajà.

The Piolet d'Or that claims another way of doing mountaineering

The Mountain Film Festival 2026 is here

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

The great epic to be the first Catalan to climb all the eight thousand meter peaks

Toni Padilla

This is how the world map has changed

Sònia Sánchez and Eduard Forroll

Add little to change the house a lot: a classic renovation with revolutionary solutions

Cristina Ros

Falangists and good witches in the middle of the civil war

M. Àngels Cabré

A round book for when hopes fluctuate

Clàudia Rius

Reflective instructions to be a dissident

Pere Antoni Pons

What the industry wants you to take, and what science says is not necessary at all

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

For bread and for salt

Per pa i per sal |

An autumn pot

Caterina Gelabert

Interview Gemma Urgell:

"Cheese gives us food and happiness: what more do we want?"

Elena García Dalmau

The fruit of an invasive plant that it is better that we eat than let it go to waste

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez