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The Teachers' Association suspends Prohens' education policy (despite the money he has given/promised them)

Jaume Cladera Mas

San Antonio rejects an artificial lake made with water for an Egyptian festival

Historical memory

The silent rollback of the democratic memory law in the regions governed by the PP and Vox

From 'Me lo dijo Pérez' to 'El Puente': the tourist songs that projected Mallorca to the world

Antoni Janer Torrens

Events in the Balearic Islands

A truck catches fire on the Andratx motorway, causing long traffic jams all the way to the ring road.

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A four-year-old boy is seriously injured after drowning in a swimming pool in Pollença

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Lourdes Sampol, painter and key figure of the Chopin Festival of Valldemossa, dies

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A man was arrested for taking a nap in Palma while his grandchildren played on the ledge of a third-floor apartment.

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Content in catalan

La filla única |

No, we're not a chill chick.

Alba Tarragó

MÁS per Palma calls for more trees, shade and climate shelters: "The PP's regulations are unambitious"

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An illegal tourist house in Santa Eulària has been sealed off and fined €275,000.

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To fix tourism in the Islands

Guillem López Casasnovas

The smell of the eclipse

Marta Terrasa

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Open forum

We are an angry people: it's time to take action!

Vignette

The Encruya

The Inca Footwear and Industry Museum joins the International Council of Museums

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Did Odysseus pass through the Balearic Islands?

Francesc M. Rotger

Territorial tension

Onofre Rullan

'A Walk Through the Born' wins the award for best European film at a French festival

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The journey to Atlantis

Miquel Àngel Ballester

Hayden Panettiere, actress from 'Heroes' and 'Nashville', dies at age 36

Alejandra Palés

Així era i no era... |

What Antoni Torrens was like: "A person full of light; he never had hatred inside him"

Clàudia Darder

Time for monographs

J.A. Mendiola

The doctor in Gaza who didn't want to abandon his patients

Cristina Mas

The agreement between the United States and Iran expires: what has changed in two months?

Ethel Bonet

The "modern socialist city" that Xi Jinping dreams of and that is already under construction

Dolors Rodríguez Puerto

When the '-axis-' eclipses the '-esc-'

Catalina Pons Vidal

Island rock is rejuvenated

Celestí Oliver

Laura del Pino: "Jamaican music was my gateway to the songs of the sixties"

Laura Santos

La filla única |

Dear straight white friends

Alba Tarragó

Mallorca, the paradise of sundials

Antoni Janer Torrens

The members of the Government after the swearing-in of the new councillors in July 2025.

The ups and downs of the Prohens Government's high-ranking officials: 142 changes in three years

Rafel 'Coca', a multifaceted man: Politician, promoter of the Bassa skyscraper and manager of Cine Goya

Let's do it in Catalan warns: the Consell de Menorca is about to eliminate the Catalan requirement

National Police Agent

Man arrested for napping in Palma while grandchildren played on the ledge of a third-floor apartment

Three illegal chalets within a protected space: seven years waiting for their demolition while they do tourist business there

Doctor and researcher Javier Cortés Bordoy dies, a benchmark figure in Balearic medicine

The UIB is the sixth most productive university in the country. / NOW BALEARIC ISLANDS

The UIB is no longer among the best 1,000 universities in the world

The state-subsidized nursery schools, pointed out for obliging educators to clean and cook

'Live Culture' premieres 36 new activities to bring the heritage of the Balearic Islands closer to students

People at Palma airport in a file image.

Palma airport will exceed capacity more than half of the days in August, according to Eurocontrol

Unemployment falls 2% in the Balearic Islands

The number of tourists continues to grow in the Balearic Islands: 6.6 million until June

A man with glasses and a tablet.

The eclipse of fear in Mallorca

Wednesday at the Slice, a ten

Hell is the others (and us)

The Pula talayot is located enclosed by a golf course.

The archaeological heritage besieged by cement

Son Oms, the paradigm of the blunder in the name of progress

Jordi Bosch: "The centuries pass and Shakespeare continues to touch people's souls"

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

Cod with summer vegetables in the Mongil style.

Summer cod

Almond preparations

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

The hermitage of Macari is the setting of a legend about this real character from the 19th century, originally from Felanitx.

The hermitage of Betlem along the path of Can Canals

The Pudent pond, the legend of an estate under the waters

The paths of Llucmaçanes, sinuous freshness, beauty and genuineness

Enric Mas, in blue, with his friends.

How was Enric Mas, according to his friend: "When we go to dinner at a restaurant he brings his own pasta"

Les Alqueries, key point on the long transhumance route

The 'secret' viewpoints of Son Ferrà, proud and discreet

Així era i no era... |

First, the yard; the house, later.

Cristina Ros

A bird that is a symbol of life, fertility, and abundance

Òscar Domínguez

A century sailing with the most Catalan vessel

Toni Padilla

Lorca's last hours: all the open questions about the poet's murder

Sílvia Marimon

Esty Quesada (Soy una Pringada) recommends a book that "captures the essence of the United States"

Xavi Serra

10 memorable literary and cinematic eclipses

Jordi Nopca and Xavi Serra

For bread and for salt

Per pa i per sal |

Summer cod

Caterina Gelabert

For bread and salt

Per pa i per sal |

Almond preparations

Caterina Gelabert

Interview Sílvia Subirós i Mercader:

"My father has never taken a vacation, not even a day off, and the verb 'to rest' is not part of his vocabulary."

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

The two dishes and the cooking course that tourists ask the receptionists of the hotels where they are staying

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez