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Palma will have double the number of ORA parking spaces starting in January 2027

Héctor Rubio

Teachers in the Balearic Islands could claim up to 1,240 euros annually for double payments

Jaume Cladera Mas

The Education Department proposes reducing the teaching load of teachers in state-subsidized private schools to bring it in line with that of public schools.

Jaume Cladera Mas

“It was like a drug bust”: Cort’s police raid on street performers

Héctor Rubio

"If Palma doesn't redistribute vulnerable students, it's because the schools don't want to."

Jaume Cladera Mas

A 19-year-old man dies after being stabbed in Son Gotleu

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The Council leaves more than 4,000 students without 'Flip Up' and the professionals of the program without work

Héctor Rubio

Artà surrenders to Enric Mas after winning the Vuelta

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A lifetime spent searching for Daria and Mercè, murdered in Manacor in 1936

Mercè Pinya

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Mateu Matas 'Xurí': “All day long I was covered in rips and holes in my face and body”

Clàudia Darder

The UIB buys a plot of land in ParcBit to boost future university facilities

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The PP refuses to limit the purchase of second homes in the Balearic Islands: "It's not credible that Más would support it"

Anna Mascaró

A topless eco-avenger against those who waste water on the beach

Marta Terrasa

Palma residents reclaim the Matadero with an open-air dinner to demand its reuse

Bruno Rodríguez

Paca's daughter-in-law admits to having brought five kilos of cocaine into Son Banya

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Periodisme lliure i compromès

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Open forum

Walls of dignity: remembering without telling?

Open forum

Towers and watchtowers: now more than ever

Open forum

The perfect storm over the Balearic Islands: The double plunder that leads us to self-hatred

Vignette

The Encruya

Artificial intelligence

When science opens letters that have been sealed for centuries

Xavier Duran

The 'Swede' who wanted to be buried in Mallorca

Francesc M. Rotger

30 years working together to reach for the sky

Mercè Pinya

Mago, a setting that cinema transformed into memory

Joan Carles Palos

Sneakers and aspirin: trademarks as everyday words

Elga Cremades

Marta Sans: "No matter how much theory you have, you can't escape a destructive relationship because desire drags you down."

Sílvia Marimon

Rural schools that fought illiteracy

Antoni Janer Torrens

Residents' associations ask Cort to tighten restrictions on nighttime alcohol sales

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More than 5,000 people arrive in Lluc after the Part Forana Foot Climb

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Joan Munar takes over from Toni Salas as mayor of Costitx after 19 years

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A date has been set for a new protest against Aena and its tourism promotion policy

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Russia and Ukraine agree not to attack energy infrastructure, according to Trump

Albert Sort

Why is there an avalanche of warnings and fear surrounding artificial intelligence?

Agustí Sala

China calls for a "security barrier" for AI amid debate over its risks

Víctor Sanz Guerrero and Arnau Blanch

Night of Art 2026

Palma's Night of Art celebrates 30 years with a hundred artists

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Five key names you should know before the Emmys

Alejandra Palés

What kind of live music do we want?

Xavier Cervantes

Small stall in front of the entrance to the Council headquarters.

The Council has given away flags on the occasion of the September 12th National Day

The PP and Vox block the Government from giving explanations about the Pact for sustainability

The Council will commission a new “more powerful and extensive” audit before deciding on the Tirme concession

The artist Rels B at the moment of receiving the distinction

The Council recognizes Rels B, Concha Buika and Michael Douglas with its highest distinctions

The firefighters rescue by helicopter a hiker injured in a leg in Peguera

They report abuses in the security protocol of the Rels B concert: "They knocked me down between five"

A classroom of the CEIP Alexandre Rosselló.

The battle for public school is fought also against the advance of the concerted one

The first day of school, between new backpacks and old problems: "I'm not thinking about the PISA today"

Where should education go after PISA: "We must stop the pedagogical reform and look at what we are doing"

The most recent developments made in Palma have unaffordable prices for the majority of the resident population.

More multi-property owners and more people without any apartment: the gap skyrockets in the Islands

Aena says that the Balearic airport co-management law is "unconstitutional" and threatens to act if it is approved

Unemployment rises in the Balearic Islands in August despite there being 26,872 more affiliates than a year ago

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To audit what has been audited

Pumpkins and songs

A mobile phone has come out in our hand

Mahi-mahi paired from an interpretation of a Sicilian dish

Sea lightning

Rels B gifts Mallorca a party with more than 30,000 people in front of the Cathedral

Coming to Mallorca to learn Catalan and not being able to practice it

Josep Renalias Wikipedia

Was the good king James II so good?

The joy of living of the workers of the tourist boom

The total solar eclipse of 1905 in Mallorca: scientists and smokeless factories

A therapy session in 'The Sopranos'

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

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

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"

Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock, united by witchcraft

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Content in catalan

From old workshop in home studio

Cristina Ros

"I have always positioned myself on the left, with doubts and criticisms, but on the left nonetheless."

Pilar Gómez Rodríguez / La Maleta de Portbou

Is it necessary to read a story that doesn't resonate with us, even if it's well-written?

M. Àngels Cabré

"There is a difference in degree between being an author and a writer."

Jordi Nopca

The extreme pilgrimage undertaken by Werner Herzog

Pere Antoni Pons

Interview Diego Alías:

"We serve the first glass of wine, but then we leave the wine on the table; we are hospitable but not servants."

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

For bread and for salt

Per pa i per sal |

Sea lightning

Caterina Gelabert

Is haute cuisine dead?

Rosa Rodon

Món Việt, the restaurant that opens the door to Vietnamese cuisine

Rosa Rodon