Around 200,000 people were awaiting the resolution of a judicial case at the end of 2025, a figure that practically doubles the waiting lists for public healthcare and remains stable compared to the previous year.

The Palma City Council has reported that from this Tuesday, the number of Local Police officers will be increased in the queues that form at the Citizen Service Offices due to the large influx of people. They have also urged the Spanish government delegation to mobilize National Police officers in the same way. However, what the Martínez government does not plan to reinforce is the service of attention, given the avalanche of migrant people who come to the offices since the regularization process began.

The National Police arrested a businessman from Mallorca this Friday who attempted to bribe the Director General of Coasts and Coastline, María Joaquima Ferrer. The man, who went to the high-ranking official's office to resolve an issue with permits linked to his businesses, gave her a box of chocolates. Ferrer's surprise was immense when, upon opening it to offer some to some workers, it was full of money: in total, there were 20,000 euros in 50 euro bills.

A group of islanders (three from Mallorca and one from Menorca) will depart for Gaza from Barcelona this week with a new humanitarian flotilla. We speak with Lluís (Ciutadella) and Toni (Sant Llorenç), who have decided to join the new Flotilla Summud. Both share a goal: to force the opening of a sustained humanitarian corridor. The action combines the sending of aid with the will to denounce and raise awareness: “It is also a way to mobilize people and pressure governments to act,” they explain.

The content creator Co.torrita (Constança Serra) started posting on social media after returning to Mallorca, having lived abroad for two decades.

Despite being a magistrate with a brilliant career, when he was just a Law student at the Complutense University of Madrid, where he graduated two years after the assassinations of the Atocha labor lawyers, Carlos Gómez (Madrid, 1957) did not know that he would end up dedicating his life to the judiciary. “I hadn't even considered it, because Franco was still alive and at that time being a judge meant being part of a repressive body”, explains the president of the Superior Court of Justice of the Balearic Islands.

The historian Marina Castillo Fuentesal (Palma, 1996) has recently obtained her doctorate with a cum laude qualification from the University of the Balearic Islands. Between the yoke and the cross. Women during the Franco dictatorship in Mallorca (1939-1975) is the title of the research she has conducted for almost six years and which has been supervised by the professors of Contemporary History David Ginard and Sebastià Serra.

“All students should go through the Legal Clinic if they want to practice law”, assures the lawyer and project coordinator, Sebastià Arbós. The students who intern there agree and know that this "taste" of the real lawyer's profession is not found in law textbooks.

The community organizations of Son Sardina have called for another day of protest this Saturday, March 28th, in Can Banya Square to demand the creation of a public square and community center, managed by the people, on the site known as Can Pesquet. This initiative is part of the campaign "Public Square and Community Center in Can Pesquet, Managed by the People," launched this month by the Son Sardina and La Garriga People's Assembly and the Son Sardina Residents' Association, with the support of other local organizations. This latest mobilization continues a long-standing demand from the neighborhood, which has been calling for public spaces for community gatherings and organizing for years. According to the organizers, the lack of facilities particularly hinders the activities of groups that promote local culture, the festive calendar, and the defense of social and labor interests.

Dozens of people gathered this Tuesday outside the courthouse on Vía de Alemania in Palma to show their support for those facing charges for trying to stop the eviction of a family with children in 2022. The legal proceedings, known as the Barraquer case, were resolved with a plea agreement that avoided a trial. The charge was resisting authority. The demonstration was organized by the Palma Housing Union (SHP), whose members displayed a banner with the slogan "Repression will only make us stronger" and chanted slogans such as "No people without homes, no homes without people."

The owner of the shack advertised a few weeks ago on a rural property in María de la Salud for €700 has been reported to the Civil Guard for three serious offenses. According to sources from the Seprona (Nature Protection Service) on Wednesday, investigators became aware of the advertisement after it was published in the ARA Baleares newspaper and were struck by the high price, given the context of the structure.

A lucky winner from Pollença will collect €1,561,913.92 after matching all six numbers in the Bonoloto lottery draw held this Tuesday. According to Loterías y Apuestas del Estado (the Spanish National Lottery), the winning ticket was validated at lottery outlet number 60,205, located at 8 Miquel Costa i Llobera Street and run by Pep Vallori, who has been at the helm of the business for nearly 50 years. "We are very happy, because it brings prestige to us," the owner of the establishment points out. Vallori notes that this is not the first time they have distributed a prize of this magnitude, recalling a couple of prizes of €1,000,000 or more over the years. "We are experts at distributing these kinds of prizes," he remarks. However, Vallori still doesn't know who the winner is. "It could be someone from Pollença, Palma, or who knows; lots of people come here for excursions or walks," he points out. "We only know that they placed three bets of €1.50 each," he explains.

The Friends of the Coanegra Valley Association has filed objections against the proposed second lithium-ion battery energy storage plant on a rural plot in Santa Maria del Camí. The group rejects the initiative and questions whether it can be processed as a project of strategic industrial interest. The protest comes after the Regional Ministry of Business, Self-Employment, and Energy opened the public consultation period for the application for this designation and the authorization of the project, called Bess Santa Maria. The association believes the facility lacks the public interest that would justify this administrative treatment. According to the association, it is a "private and speculative activity with the sole purpose of profit," lacking a production process, stable job creation, and integration within the local energy plan. For this reason, they argue that it does not meet the requirements to be considered of strategic interest. The group also maintains that the project cannot be located on rural land. They point out that legislation only exceptionally permits this type of installation for industrial facilities linked to renewable energy production, a category in which, according to their interpretation, the planned plant does not fit. Furthermore, they believe the initiative implies an inappropriate use of common rural land, which—they emphasize—should be designated for agricultural, livestock, or forestry activities. In this regard, they assert that the installation is incompatible with the urban planning classification of the area and that, in any case, it would require a Declaration of General Interest and the mandatory territorial report from the Consell de Mallorca (Island Council of Mallorca). The organization also denounces that the project encroaches on the municipal powers of the Santa Maria del Camí City Council regarding urban planning. They indicate that the initiative lacks any favorable report and has not been validated by the municipal governing board or the mayor. According to the association, the proposal contradicts the municipality's political and urban planning guidelines and violates the principle of local autonomy, in addition to failing to respect the criteria for citizen participation and transparency in the selection of locations for energy infrastructure. In this regard, they denounce the fact that the plant's location has not been consulted or negotiated with neighborhood associations or local institutional representatives. Environmental and safety risks

Among the arguments presented in their objections, the group also warns of the potential environmental and safety risks associated with this type of facility. They explain that the potential leaks of toxic gases or liquids in the event of a thermal failure, which could affect vegetation, soil, and aquifers, have not been adequately assessed. The association believes the project violates the precautionary principle, as it would be located in an area with no prior industrial use, which, in their opinion, would entail a significant transformation of the environment. They also emphasize that the proposed plot has high ecological value and forms part of the agricultural and landscape mosaic located between the municipalities of Consell and Santa Maria del Camí. Finally, the group warns that lithium-ion batteries carry potential risks, such as explosions, difficult-to-extinguish fires resulting from thermal runaways, the emission of toxic gases harmful to human and animal health, and possible chemical contamination of waterways.

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Douae El Mojahidi is 19 years old, grew up in Campos, and identifies as Muslim, feminist, and Catalan nationalist. Perhaps having lived between different cultures and identities, even though she didn't choose it, has given her a maturity and an ability to analyze the world that is unusual for her age. Her story is reminiscent of the "three rebellious turns" that Maria Mercè Marçal spoke of in her famous poem. When asked where she's from, she doesn't have a simple answer. Her identity shifts between places, languages, and cultures: the Amazigh of her family and the Mallorcan of the street. She was born in Algeciras, but grew up in Mallorca, in Campos, where she has spent her entire life. "When people ask me where we're from, I don't have a single answer," she explains. "I was born in Andalusia, but I've lived my whole life in Mallorca. I learned to speak Catalan here, my friends are here, I went to high school here… basically, I grew up here."

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The environmental organization Terraferida denounced on Tuesday the rural urbanization process taking place in Mallorca, where 15 square kilometers have been urbanized between 2015 and 2025, an area equivalent to the entire Cabrera archipelago. Terraferida launched a manifesto on Tuesday calling for the protection of areas outside of villas and photovoltaic power plants, as the first step in a campaign that will take them to municipalities to inform residents with data and images about the rural urbanization process affecting the island.

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The Advisory Council of the Municipality of Bunyola has met to advance the development and approval of the land use plan for this natural area, which aims to establish criteria for regulating and reconciling its recreational use with its conservation. At the last meeting of the advisory council—comprised of technicians, institutional representatives, social organizations, and experts—criteria and proposals were shared to make human activity possible while conserving one of Bunyola's most emblematic natural areas, as reported by the Town Hall. The future land use plan must allow for balanced management that protects the ecological, cultural, and social values ​​of the Comuna and ensures that any activity carried out is done with respect and responsibility. The document's objective is to guarantee responsible and sustainable use. "The Comuna is a collective heritage that defines us as a community, and regulating its uses is a way to ensure that we can continue to enjoy it without losing what makes it unique," stated the Mayor of Bunyola, Marian Serralta. The mayor believes that to develop the land use plan and "bring common sense" to the use of the Comuna (communal land), it is necessary to "listen to all perspectives, to protect the environment and make it compatible with the life of the municipality." Esquerra Oberta de Bunyola believes that the governing team is carrying out a "whitewashing" campaign with the Comuna Advisory Council.

For its part, Esquerra Oberta de Bunyola (EOB) has criticized the governing team for only convening the Commune's Advisory Council once during the entire legislative term, despite continuous interventions. "The PP's proposal is pure empty political marketing," sources from the Bunyola-based party stated. "We believe that using a collegiate body to carry out a whitewashing campaign is, at the very least, in bad taste," they denounced. "The Advisory Council should serve as a consultative body and a key element in the management of the communal forest, not be used at the discretion of the governing team to serve their media interests," EOB pointed out.

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The eight men accused of the gang rape of an 18-year-old woman in Magaluf in August 2023 admitted to the crime and accepted a combined sentence of 72 years and three months in prison. The plea agreement was finalized Monday morning before the trial was scheduled to take place in the Second Section of the Provincial Court of the Balearic Islands. The defendants—seven French nationals and one Swiss national—admitted that on August 14, 2023, they went to a hotel room in Magaluf where one of the victim's companions was staying. They admitted that, aware of the woman's unconscious state, they undressed her, sexually assaulted her, and raped her multiple times.

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The Franz Weber Foundation on Monday called for reflection on the permissiveness of allowing minors access to bullfighting events, such as the bullfight scheduled for March 29 in Inca, following a new warning issued a month ago by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child. In its latest concluding observations on Spain, this UN body included an explicit reference to bullfighting within the section on "violence against children." The committee expressed its concern that children witness "the violence and death of participants during popular bullfighting events held throughout the country."

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The housing crisis in Mallorca continues to produce listings that highlight the extent to which rental prices have skyrocketed. An ad on the real estate portal Idealista offers a brand-new "studio cabin" in "the heart of nature" for almost 700 euros a month, an offer that illustrates the pressure of the real estate market, even outside major urban centers.

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The Supreme Court (TS) has reduced the sentence of the perpetrator of one of the most virulent and destructive forest fires in the Balearic Islands, which occurred in July 2013 in the Serra de Tramuntana mountains and affected 2,347 hectares. The criminal chamber partially upheld the appeal filed by the defendant and decided to reduce his sentence from two and a half years to one year and nine months in prison for the crime of arson.

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