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The Balearic Government creates its own corps of agents to monitor all public buildings in the Balearic Islands

Aina Vidal

Pedro Bestard, surrounded by enemies inside and outside of Vox

Anna Mascaró

Meetings at the Ministry of Education where mobile phones are banned

Jaume Cladera Mas

An appeal to landlords and an amendment: Prohens' measures regarding lease renewals

Maria Llull

Interview Albert Herranz:

“Palma is hidden under franchises and we must reclaim it”

C. SOLER

Catalan amendments

MÁS denounces that the PP endorses Vox amendments that weaken the use of Catalan in education

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Cort asks Ben Amics to continue the collaboration to celebrate the LGTBI+ Pride festival

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Education warns that the legal delay will keep the Miquel Roldán case open next school year

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"We're all hurting each other": flowerpots thrown on the ground and vandalism in Sant Joan

Josep Maria Sastre

The Pere Garau Second Life Fair aims to raise awareness about the need to extend the life of objects.

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Spain amends child protection law to prevent situations like that of Miquel Roldán

Jaume Cladera Mas

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Observatory

Fun, awards and confessions

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Don't miss a single one

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The Encruya

Would you buy a box without knowing what's inside? The lost package phenomenon has reached Mallorca.

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The last place Siri Hustvedt can meet Paul Auster

Anna Carreras Aubets

10 interesting facts you may not know about a can of sardines

Rosa Rodon

The first capital city in the world to ban hamburger advertisements

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Why has this US school removed all laptops from students?

Natasha Singer/ The New York Times

Content in catalan

The government sent a minor to the prosecutor's office to make a post against mass tourism.

Aina Vidal

Manacor clarifies its sales figures: "The biggest competitor is coming in a van"

Sebastià Vanrell

Palma rejects the Pesquero bar project in the port due to “visual distortion” in the historic center

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Judicial blow in Alcudiamar: hotel use of the Botel annulled

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The number of newly arrived students at the school skyrockets in just five years

Jaume Cladera Mas

Technicians point to improper use of the roof and humidity as the cause of the collapse of a flat in Palma

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United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, in crisis due to war: why have they drifted apart?

Ismaeel Naar (The New York Times)

Content in catalan

Trump backtracks again and suspends his plan to escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz

Antònia Crespí Ferrer

Russia launches one of its deadliest attacks in Ukraine despite the ceasefire announced for this weekend

Albert Sort

An Israeli court extends the detention of the leaders of the Gaza Flotilla until Sunday

Cristina Mas and Martí Odriozola i Marcé

La filla única |

Mothers, who are you when you are not mothers?

Alba Tarragó

Literary Conversations and the Formentor Prize return to Mallorca

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Així era i no era... |

According to his mother, Miquel Oliver: “There has never been another as calm as him.”

Clàudia Darder

Anna Traveset receives the Malaspina National Research Award

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Tourists in Palma.

The Government trusts that tourism will not grow in high season

The Council of Mallorca will make two reports to find out the use that Pedro Bestard has made of official cars

The PP does not rule out giving support to Vox's amendment to speed up projects for large commercial areas

ARA Balears archive image.

Health argues that a nurse can direct "any healthcare center" and is considering appealing the TSJIB ruling

The price of leaving an abandoned bathtub in Palma: Fine of up to 1,500 euros

Manacor offers to host the Pride festival after cancellation in Palma

One of the strike days at CEIP Son Pisà.

Son Pisà families abandon strike against Miquel Roldán: "In no case does it mean the end of our fight"

The IES Politècnic denounces Cort's refusal to cede the Maruja Alfaro theatre for graduation

The mirage of group work at university: learning together or carrying the others?

Tourists in Palma.

The arrival of international tourists to the Balearic Islands rises in March by 14%

Unemployment falls 7.8% year-on-year in the Balearic Islands in April

The May 1st demonstration in Palma calls for housing and no to war

Archive image of the Es Pinaret minors' center. / ARA BALEARS

Triptych landed (II): The roses

AI Ping-pong

When governments fail: the repeating pattern in the Balearic Islands

The arrival of the Flame at the concert in Felanitx.

The Twinned Correllengua fills the Llevant region of Mallorca with culture and language

And if the problem were not speaking Catalan, but which Catalan we believe we can speak?

The last shepherd in ancient Mallorca

Abel Matutes, mayor of Ibiza, on the arrival of the statue of Guillem de Montgrí on August 8, 1970.

Abel Matutes: from Franco's mayor to minister of democracy

Esporles, "little Russia" repressed

The women's 'no to war'

Adaptation of Brother Roger's stuffed egg soup.

First it was the egg

Ibicencan herbs arrive in Japan

Where is the best llonguet in Mallorca made?

The mussel farms are part of the coastal cultural landscape that speaks to us of the human relationship with the sea.

The Stove, the most singular midday of the island of Formentera

The rock of Mola, perched on the history of Galilea

Mountain Spring, monumental and robust gush of the Tramuntana

One of the images presented in the contest.

The best photographs and the winners of the 2026 Mountain Photography Awards

What do nuns and volleyball have to do with each other?

The Kite of the Dead and the Pixarells, landscape sculpted drop by drop

Why does fashion suddenly love older women?

Vanessa Friedman / The New York Times

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Content in catalan

The age-old struggle of the Ianomamí people: "Protecting the Amazon means protecting life"

Nicola Zolin

Neither Prada nor Gucci: the new trendy handbag is from the supermarket

Sílvia Rosés

I would have liked to look at my phone a little more.

Mònica Planas Callol

"Thinking of the Earth as a dead mass has been the worst of delusions."

Sònia Sánchez

The memories of a great captain from the 20th-century novel

Pere Antoni Pons

Genís Rigol: "Joining Fatbottom turned me into a comic book author"

Xavi Serra

The bitter dilemma of choosing a package of industrial cookies

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

For bread and for salt

Per pa i per sal |

Recipe for tender broad beans with aioli

Caterina Gelabert

The metallic sound that predisposes you to eat potato chips.

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

Interview Joan Raventós:

"Brussels looks like a big city, but it has the DNA of a large town. It reminded me of Vilafranca."

Elena García Dalmau