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Public healthcare treats tourists free of charge: “They were having a snack by the villa's pool and the visit wasn't charged or recorded.”

Jaume Cladera Mas

This is what it costs to go to the doctor in the Balearic Islands

Jaume Cladera Mas

The invisible cost of tourists

Editorial ARA Balears

IB-Salut denies the gap in care for tourists: "It's not just the tip of the iceberg"

Jaume Cladera Mas

The Balearic Islands authorize 2,865 new wells in three and a half years despite the extreme situation of the aquifers

Jaume Perelló

Celestino Alomar, thank you very much.

Editorial ARA Balears

Celestí Alomar, the first Tourism Minister of the Pact and promoter of the ecotax, has died.

Héctor Rubio

Celestino Alomar, reason and force

Sebastià Alzamora

The death of Celestí Alomar

The farewell to the political world: "One of the great men of our country"

Anna Mascaró

Celestí Alomar's final tribute to the party he helped found

Celestí Alomar

The ecotax against hotel power: the great battle that changed the tourism debate

Climent Picornell

In Mallorca, three swimming pools have been built every day for the past ten years.

Anna Mascaró

Excavations for the fifth mass grave plan in Son Servera resume this Tuesday.

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Diversification is possible, according to the few who dare to break away from the tourism monoculture.

Jaume Perelló

Xisca Alzamora:

"Home-cooked food has a price, and food pulled out of a bag should have another."

Sebastià Vanrell

They give beer to goats in Cala Figuera and leave the cans on the ground

ARA Balears

Kids, the holidays are over: eight months to make it to the polls alive

Maria Llull

Two footballers from the RCE Mallorca youth academy arrested for recording a sexual relationship with a minor

ARA Balears

The plenary session of the Menorca Council has been postponed to limit the entry of cars onto the island.

ARA Balears

The PSIB accuses the Government of "protecting" private nurseries while abandoning municipal ones.

Jaume Cladera Mas

Alarm in Montuïri over the sale of the Sabor talayots: they could end up in private hands

Joan Socies

A 27-year-old man was seriously injured after falling 17 meters into a cove in Ibiza.

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A chain of chairs on the cool Palma crossing against overcrowding

Aina Vidal

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Periodisme lliure i compromès

Observatory

Mahler, a separate point

Open forum

Mobility at a standstill, forgotten villages

Open tribune

Aena is not the problem

Vignette

The crossroads

The Principal opens the sale of season tickets and individual tickets for the 2026-2027 season

ARA Balears

Així era i no era... |

David Pujol, according to his friend Antoni Trobat: "He was taught that things don't fall from the sky"

Clàudia Darder

La filla única |

Being a 'pond' is the worst nightmare: we have no personality, we're snobs

Alba Tarragó

Cadena SER fires journalist Javier Ruiz

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Calls to revoke the license of the horse-drawn carriage driver who assaulted a tourist in Palma

Bruno Rodríguez

The young women arrested in Santa Maria recount their experience: "Who paid for your education? Don't let it go to waste."

Aina Vidal

The reports to declare the Menorcan a Cultural Asset are null and void.

David Marquès

Modi demands Putin end the war: "Every day it continues, humanity goes backwards"

Albert Sort

Crossfire between the US and Iran for the first time since July

Antònia Crespí Ferrer

A takeover war shakes the Italian banking sector

Albert Cadanet Vilà

When two Chuetas said enough: the Cartagena dispute that shook 19th-century Mallorca

Francesc M. Rotger

The Balearic musicians behind Rosalía, Rels B and Guitarricadelafuente

Celestí Oliver

Loseta was like Las Vegas: 60 years of cement and environmental struggle

Antoni Janer Torrens

A group of tourists queues to be able to get on the Sóller train.

'Quality' tourism or tourism for the rich? The new frontier of luxury in Mallorca

The mayoress Catalina Soler refuses to pass under the canopy of Felanitx

The Government, on the human chain called for by Madò Farta: "It cannot be said that we have not taken measures"

A dog in Son Reus.

They call off the strike at Son Reus due to accusations of scabbing and announce a legal offensive

One dead and two injured in an accident in Portocristo: the car has crashed into a tree and overturned

Cala Saladeta hosts a youth protest against tourist overcrowding in Ibiza

Archive image of a protest by 0-3 educators.

The nursery schools announce a general strike and a "hot September"

"He only understands that his friends have a summer and he does not"

Education ignores its highest consultative body when it questions the educational model

Celestí Alomar

Celestí Alomar: "We cannot be subjected to the dictatorship of tourism"

Menorca's silent growth: recovers more than 800 tourist places

The ITV of Mallorca foresees making some 200,000 more inspections until the end of the year

Celesti Alomar.

Celestí Alomar, the friend, the politician, and the country

"A hostile mass"

Ferran Rosa is the system

Rodrigo Cuevas with Massiel in Ibiza

Rodrigo Cuevas unleashes euphoria at the Nits de Tanit festival in Ibiza

Why do we switch languages without realizing it?

Stuffed lamb box, a traditional recipe tied to farming

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

A therapy session in 'The Sopranos'

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

Summer cod

Almond preparations

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

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"

A house without excesses

Cristina Ros

Trip to Georgia: unspoiled nature and Soviet remnants

Núria Vila Masclans

Sara Campanales: leaving the city to go live in the jungle

Toni Padilla

Gaea Schoeters:

"By hunting an endangered animal, you can encourage the government to help its species."

Jordi Nopca

A great book in a seemingly modest way

Jordi Llavina

"Before, people had children while doing a thousand other things, and now these projects are on the same list as doing a doctorate or a trip to India."

Lara Bonilla

A guide to where and what to eat in Formentera (made by a local person)

Pau Jiménez Nicolás

Per pa i per sal |

Stuffed mutton thigh, a traditional recipe linked to the peasantry

Caterina Gelabert

Figs, with or without skin?

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez

"The name 'red wine' dates back to the Franco era, when they didn't like to say 'red wines', but in Calonge we have always called it 'red wine'"

Trinitat Gilbert Martínez