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More multiple property owners and more people without any home: the gap is widening in the Islands

Jaume Perelló

30 years of working together to reach for the sky

Mercè Pinya

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

Governing Council

The government is open to limiting the purchase of second homes if Brussels approves it.

Anna Mascaró

Gesa's new building will be completed by the end of 2029 and will include more green areas.

Héctor Rubio

Doctors call for an indefinite strike starting October 28 across the state

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

Núria Cerdà

He re-cemented and reinstalled an illegal crane on the rocks of Cala Egos after being reported.

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Part of the framework of a house in Camp Redó, evacuated due to risk of collapse, passes through the eye

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Magician, a setting that cinema will transform into memory

Joan Carles Palos

A thief jumps into the sea from a cliff to escape the police in Ibiza

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The battle for public education is also being fought against the advance of private-public partnerships.

Jaume Cladera Mas

La Bressola celebrates its 50th anniversary and is bringing its Catalan immersion model to the UIB

Jaume Cladera Mas

Pablo Rodríguez, new director of Marilles

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Periodisme lliure i compromès

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Periodisme lliure i compromès

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

Have we forgotten how to think? Are social media making us more ignorant?

Miquel Àngel Ballester

From old workshop in home studio

Cristina Ros

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

Sílvia Marimon

Mallorca Council

The Council has given away flags to mark the Diada on September 12th.

M. Pinya

Interview Belkacem Bouchouala:

"Do you think that if you collected all these rents, you would work in a phone booth?"

Sebastià Vanrell

"Mallehaters go home": the German song that defends tourism on the 'Ballermann 6'

Héctor Rubio

Incidents in the Balearic Islands

Emergency services are working to restore normality after more than 200 storm incidents in the Balearic Islands

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Events in the Balearic Islands

A stinging boss wreaks havoc on the Son Sardina estate: "It's like a bomb has been dropped"

Héctor Rubio

The declassified Interior Ministry documents do not warn of a "high risk" of migrant arrivals in the Balearic Islands

Anna Mascaró

The Parliament demands that the underwater mountains of the Mallorca Channel be declared a Marine National Park

Maria Llull

The Government is processing the Son Bonet photovoltaic park again, which the Parliament unanimously rejected.

Jaume Perelló

Trump seeks a miracle in Dallas and promises a $5,000 check if Republicans win the midterms

Antònia Crespí Ferrer

Why is the AfD the most feared far-right party in Europe?

Núria Sala Ventura and Víctor Sanz Guerrero

US bombs five Iranian oil tankers and Tehran responds with attacks in Jordan

Antònia Crespí Ferrer

Night of Art 2026

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

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Can Canut opens in Binissalem: "We want to remove the aura of experts that alienates the consumer from wine"

Aina Vidal

When Bach enters a cage: Inca's project gaining international attention

J. Mayol

Last meeting of the Pact for Sustainability

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 Egyptian swimming pool of Sant Antoni makes the water glass of Ibiza overflow

Magaluf Beach

Calvià will receive 16.8 million from the ITS to renovate public spaces and reinforce security in Magaluf

Arrested at Palma airport with 109 capsules of cocaine inside the organism

The Council now wants to promote Mallorca as an oleotourism destination

Students at the doors of the IES Ses Estacions in Palma.

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 PISA hangover marks the start of the academic year: "We cannot contrast skills and knowledge"

The president and chief executive officer of Aena, Maurici Lucena.

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

The Balearic Islands receive 9.16 million international tourists until July, 1.8% more

An empty classroom minutes before the start of the school year.

The results that surprised no one

Aena, the shredder

The flag

The Mallorcan singer Rels B during his concert at the Mallorca Live Festival.

Rels B, today in Palma: everything you need to know about the free concert

Calvià, a film set by the seashore

Algaida becomes a great open-air art space with more than 30 exhibition spaces

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"

"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?'"

Jonathan Abrams / The New York Times

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Content in catalan

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

Macaroni and cheese, Ada Parellada's recipe

Ada Parellada