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Balearic Islands debacle in PISA: they sink in Mathematics and Reading

Jaume Cladera Mas

Freefall in PISA: Spanish students more than a year behind the UK in math and reading

Diana Silva

The Government rules out an increase in the ecotax

Maria Llull

Ibiza needs more Catalan teachers than there are schools on the island: "Someone comes and they call them head of department"

Jaume Cladera Mas

Fascism murdered them in Manacor; 90 years later, they have returned home

Mercè Pinya

"At home we reach close to 60 decibels": Santa Catalina residents complain of three days of noise

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Two soldiers from Bayo's expedition located in the Son Servera cemetery

Mercè Pinya

The Balearic Islands received 3,801 new students with the 2025-2026 school year already underway

Jaume Cladera Mas

The board of Son Espases refuses to condemn the harassment reported by the former head of communications

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Crisis in Ceuta: the PP demands that the Spanish government delegate appear before the Parliament

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Violació grupal

Five young men who gang-raped two minors in Palma avoid jail

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Two sun loungers and a parasol cost up to 125 euros per day in Cala Major

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The PSIB justifies Madrid's veto on airport co-management: "We warned that it had weaknesses"

Anna Mascaró

The Patron Saint

Aina Losange criticizes the Patron Saint Festival and compares it to Megapark: "It looked like a party for tourists"

Aina Vidal

The Atlántida Mallorca Film Fest closes its edition with 1.57 million views on Filmin

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MÁS por Palma reports that the school year will begin with classrooms at over 30 degrees.

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The residents of Son Sardina take to the streets again to demand Can Pesquet: "We want a date"

Aina Vidal

Academic year 2026-2027: public schools lose 24 students for every one lost in private schools

Jaume Cladera Mas

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Opinion

And Palma, for whom is it a priority?

Opinió

The Encruya

Open Forum

Pedro Sánchez imposes his will and the Balearic Islands pay the price

Observatory

The achievements of Celestí Alomar

Open tribune

The miracle of R&D&I at the University of the Balearic Islands

Així era i no era... |

M. Antònia Oliver París (according to her sister): “She was protective, rebellious, and a champion of justice.”

Clàudia Darder

This food that we buy canned will be real from January onwards.

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

Macaroni and cheese, Ada Parellada's recipe

Ada Parellada

From Newton to the Claudian plum

Elga Cremades

An oceanographic vessel recovers around twenty Roman amphorae from a depth of 1,400 meters

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

Maria Llull

The collapse of classrooms: "Teachers are giving more class hours to reduce student-teacher ratios"

Jaume Cladera Mas

They demand a permanent ban on the Fornalutx bull run: "It should have been done years ago"

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Antoni Salas leaves the mayoralty of Costitx after 20 years and will be replaced by Joan Munar

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A house in Manacor has been discovered where up to 30 people were living together.

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"Only idiots or traitors can rejoice": Alternative for Germany's victory sends shivers down the spines of Europe

Núria Sala Ventura

Merz, "shocked," says the result in Saxony-Anhalt cannot be ignored but rules out resigning

Núria Vila Masclans

25 years since 9/11: A timeline of the war on terror

Sònia Sánchez

'Cleanse aura', 'six seven' and other harmless constructions of youth identity

Sebastián Marín

'Sum vermis': Jacint Verdaguer from today's perspective

Clàudia Darder

The joy of living for the workers of the tourism boom

Antoni Janer Torrens

The Principal Theatre of Inca closed the 2024 - 2025 season with more than 34,000 attendees.

The PP defends the process to choose the new director of the Principal theater of Inca

Amanda Fernández Rubí: "Reaching the growth ceiling foreseen by the Territorial Plan is unfeasible"

The Moncloa vetoes the co-management of airports because it would reduce “Aena's income”

Concert in the framework of the Patron Saint festivities organized by the Palma City Council

"At home we reached nearly 60 decibels": the residents of Santa Catalina denounce three days of noise

They find a sub-standard dwelling in Manacor where 30 people lived together in precarious conditions

Vilafranca debuts a sculpture to Tomeu Penya, a gift for a lifetime of friendship

Dining room of the CEIP Es Puig de Lloseta.

All public schools in the Balearic Islands will have a school canteen this academic year

The fall of Can Arabí: the company that managed the most school canteens loses all its centers

The list of Education: teaching specialties of difficult coverage that will collect a supplement

A worker in the center of Palma.

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

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

One of the flags that have been able to be seen.

"Let's see if you all get raped"

A sign, for the moment

'Naked' or the conjugation of the verb 'to love'

Participants in the recreation.

More than 1,500 people recreate in Santa Ponça the landing of King En Jaume

Why do the Balearic Islands not have a great natural science museum?

Was the good king James II so good?

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 variant of the summer soups collected in Do you want soups? Homage to intimacy, by Maria Contestí and Antoni Contestí.

Recipe for summer soups with figs: a fresh dish with local and seasonal produce

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

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?'"

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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

Between fjords and vineyards: the new wine frontier is in Denmark

Òscar Gelis