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We debunk a lie from Vox: no one is left without a medical appointment because of migrants.

Maria Llull

The last telluric voice of the pre-tourist Balearic Islands

Antoni Janer Torrens

123 years since the first public reading of 'La Balanguera' are commemorated

Jazmín Beirak:

"The main barrier to accessing culture is the lack of time."

Cati Moyà

Així era i no era... |

Jaume C. Pons Alorda (according to his mother, Teresa Alorda): “He never touched a ball”

Clàudia Darder

The educational legacy of the Republic in the Balearic Islands: "Upon entering the schools, the children were amazed"

Jaume Cladera Mas

"There's not enough room here for everyone" (but there is room for 19 million tourists)

Maria Llull

Rooms are being rented out in Palma's old prison and the City Council is doing nothing about it.

Laura López Rigo

A 17-year-old boy was seriously injured after being hit by a car on the road between Lloseta and Inca.

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Concern in Formentera over a violent incident at the Sant Francesc youth center

Bruno Rodríguez

La filla única |

There is a degree of classism in hating routine.

Alba Tarragó

"Cheap drugs and unhealthy living": the other side of Ibiza's luxury in Epstein's emails

Jaume Perelló

Palma reopens the seafront promenade and municipal parks after the windstorm

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Ibiza declares eight neighborhoods as saturated tourist zones

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In Catalan, not everything has to be 'ours'

Elga Cremades

Teachers outraged by the May competitive exams: “I will request leave to study”

Jaume Cladera Mas

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Cultural agenda

Don't miss a single one

Vignette

The Encruya

Island Social Promotions: this is how the PSM began

Francesc M. Rotger

The Muro mountain range, elongated between history and legend

Joan Carles Palos

For bread and salt

Eat well and you will live well.

Caterina Gelabert

From ruin to home

Cristina Ros

Maria Nicolau: "It's much easier to make a spherification than a good sofrito"

Elena García Dalmau

Governing Council

Jaume Anglada, Gold Medal of the Balearic Islands

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They de-mentalize

A marijuana plantation and a hashish laboratory have been dismantled in Marratxí.

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Sant Jordi residents win: Defense will not build the powder magazine in Son Sant Joan

Jaume Perelló

A woman dies in a fire at her home in Vilafranca

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Council of Mallorca

The Consell de Mallorca reverses course and will not reduce tourist accommodations: "We do not consider it urgent"

Laura López Rigo

The West turns its back on the Kurds after years of fighting the Islamic State

Ethel Bonet

Ukraine denies it is preparing for spring elections in the country

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Putin recruits young Africans as cannon fodder for Ukraine

Albert Sort

The US Attorney's Office concealed its agreements with Epstein from the victims

Quim Aranda

Quart Creixent officially takes over from Abacus

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"Ordering a Glovo or having brunch": some phrases people from Palma say that you'd never say to a small town

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When a wedding dress is not just for getting married: the sustainable approach of a designer from Palma

Héctor Rubio

The 5th Paco de Lucía Mallorca Festival arrives in Palma with flamenco, rap and a focus on female talent

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An act of the PSI, which was established in 1976 and would give rise to the PSM.

PSM: 50 years of love in the country and universal generosity

The municipal secretary denounces the mayor of Petra for workplace harassment

The meeting on the ecotax of the Sustainability Pact ends in nothing

Mallorca beach in the summer

The Balearic model is to never touch anything.

Salut sets minimum services for next week's doctors' strike

Abandoning or giving up a dog in Manacor will no longer be free.

Representatives of the educational unions of the charter school.

Unions representing private schools threaten protests

Confirmed: the teacher recruitment exams will take place on May 9th and 10th

How do we choose our children's school? Three families share their experiences.

A supermarket shelf

The Balearic Islands start the year with the CPI at 2.4%

The aviation fuel crisis in Cuba is hitting tourism and putting companies with Balearic parent companies on alert.

The self-employed are gaining ground in the Balearic Islands and will close 2025 with unprecedented figures.

To be or not to be

To be or not to be

Performing without learning

The first quarter

Photo by J. Inés at the exhibition.

Pollença exposes the photographic soul of Javier Inés, photographer of the pre-Olympic Barcelona

The 'NUDE' project, a documentary and podcast by Victoria Morell about pornography, wins the City of Palma Journalism Prize

Cort presents the City of Palma 2025 awards, almost a month later

Celebration of a mass in the Cathedral of Mallorca.

Does God speak Catalan?

The Majorcan apostles of liberation theology

Franco, against the giants of the Islands

A therapy session in 'The Sopranos'

A must-see series and one of the best books of 2023: what you can't miss this week

Where do they make the best bread with olive oil in Mallorca?

From Morocco to Poland: Algaida's cuisine unites cultures in a book

The route

Mount Barca, discreet, but extremely decisive

Biniparratx, a cove sheltered from the cliffs of a bygone era

The Nou valley, a fertile, long and winding trench

The Molinar Ecomuseum.

The Government will move the Balearic Islands Sports Museum to the Molinar de Montuïri Ecomuseum

Grassroots sport: when work is done, training begins

Fornells Tower, guardian of the great shelter from the Tramontana wind of Menorca

Jodie Foster: "One of the good things about being older is that you don't worry about anything anymore."

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Growing up with a knot in your stomach: a childhood with anxiety and depression

Núria Bigas Formatjé

"The first time I heard Greta Thunberg I thought: 'I'm not crazy, I'm not the only one'"

Sònia Sánchez

Glimpses of nature: the best photographs of wildlife

Xavier Bertral

Sex and literature in high school

Carlota Gurt

The secret book about the Catalan revolution of 1936

Jordi Nopca

Hunger, the new deadly sin

Anna Manso

Big red fish

Caterina Gelabert

The ube, the viral purple tuber that is turning the Philippines upside down

Rambo Talabong / The New York Times

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Content in catalan

For bread and salt

Per pa i per sal |

Red legs

Caterina Gelabert

Craft breweries in the Balearic Islands are on the brink: “Every day is a struggle to avoid closing.”

Josep Genovard