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

Mercè Pinya

Democratic memory: that's what laws are for.

Editorial ARA Balears

Sneakers and aspirin: trademarks as everyday words

Elga Cremades

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

Jaume Perelló

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

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Rural schools that fought illiteracy

Antoni Janer Torrens

The 'Swede' who wanted to be buried in Mallorca

Francesc M. Rotger

30 years working together to reach for the sky

Mercè Pinya

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

Aina Vidal

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

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

Núria Cerdà

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

ARA Balears

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

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

Héctor Rubio

Firefighters rescue a hiker with a leg injury by helicopter in Peguera

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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

For bread and for salt

Per pa i per sal |

Sea lightning

Caterina Gelabert

Wizard, a setting that cinema will transform into memory

Joan Carles Palos

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

Sílvia Marimon

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

Miquel Àngel Ballester

From old workshop in home studio

Cristina Ros

"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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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 partnership schools.

Jaume Cladera Mas

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

M. M.

Governing Council

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

Anna Mascaró

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

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 Palma Firefighters during an operation

Part of the ceiling of a house in Camp Redó, evacuated due to risk of collapse, falls down

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

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

Arrival of passengers at Palma airport

Aena, the shredder

The sea swallows stupidity

The results that surprised no one

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