Two houses linked to the family of one of the activists arrested for the graffiti against five real estate agencies in Santa Maria del Camí appeared this Monday with graffiti of an antisemitic nature. The authors drew several Star of Davids next to the words 'Jews' and 'Juden', in German, and they have also tried to paint a swastika, although the drawing has remained incomplete.

The Palma City Council will demolish the building of the Son Reus municipal animal protection health center to build two new ones. The Governing Board approved this Wednesday the contracting file to tender the works and services necessary to erect a new administrative building and another auxiliary one. The project has a base tender budget of 1,986,409.23 euros (VAT included) and, according to the spokesperson for the municipal government team, Mercedes Celeste, it is "a decisive step in the modernization of municipal facilities that had not experienced any action of this magnitude for years".

The Palma City Council announced this Wednesday that the old Firefighters' station in the Son Castelló industrial estate, which is owned by Asima, will become the new Local Police station. The Council will rent the facilities for 20 years, until 2046, for 3.52 million euros including VAT. Asima will be entirely responsible for carrying out the adaptation works, which will cost approximately one million euros, explained the spokesperson for the City Council, Mercedes Celeste, at the press conference following the government board meeting. Currently, the premises were used as a sociocultural space, and have hosted fairs, courses, competitions, exhibitions, professional conferences, and even the filming of the seriesTreu Foc for IB3 Television.

Palma City Council has initially approved the new municipal ordinance on urbanization, trees, and open spaces, replacing the one in effect since 1985. It unifies criteria for the design and transformation of public spaces with the aim of "improving accessibility, sustainability, legal certainty, and urban quality," as explained by the Councilor for Urbanism, Housing, and Strategic Projects, Óscar Fidalgo, at a press conference. "With this step, Cort has an updated instrument that will allow for the planning of future urban developments under common criteria of quality, sustainability, accessibility, and legal certainty," he highlighted.

The Palma City Council and the Ministry of the Sea and the Water Cycle have signed this Tuesday the protocol to promote the execution of the new outfall of the Wastewater Treatment Plant (EDAR II), located in Platja de Palma, as well as the new treatment lines 5 and 6. These actions will allow the plant's purification capacity to be increased from the current 60,000 cubic meters per day to 90,000.

The Alaska kiosk in Plaça del Mercat has been incorporated into the Registry of Emblematic Establishments of the Palma City Council, along with eight other businesses. With these new additions, the registry managed by the PalmaActiva Commerce area reaches 135 protected establishments.

The cancellation of Canamunt and Canavall by Orgull Llonguet, that bar Flexas is not organizing its traditional festival this year, and the controversy between the City Council and Ben Amics over the LGTBI Pride festival seem to mark a specific pattern. The involved collectives denounce a lack of support and generalized interest from the City Council. Is it just a coincidence or is the municipal programming displacing the associative fabric that for decades has given life to Palma's popular festivals?

The Palma City Council has responded today to the announcement by Orgull Llonguet regarding the suspension of the organization of Canamunt and Canavall and has assured that it has not modified its support for the festival. The City Council states that, as every year, the management of the festival is carried out through a public call in which the entity presents its proposals, among which the Canamunt and Canavall proposal was usually included.

The citizen platform Flipau amb Pere Garau has denounced the proliferation of abandoned cars in the neighborhood's streets and has criticized the "inaction" of the Palma City Council in the face of a situation that, it claims, degrades public space and further reduces the available parking spaces in one of the most densely populated areas of the city.

Toni Horrach is a historian and has a master's degree in Ethics and Democracy, but he has built a career on social media with Cas Horrach (@cas.horrach), a project that analyzes Majorcan identity through humor, parody, spontaneity, and with the accent of his native Campanet as its flag. He has accumulated over 35,000 followers on Instagram and over 15,000 on TikTok. In this interview, he talks about his beginnings, the conditions under which content creators work, and his view on current affairs.

Orgull Llonguet will not organize this year the Canamunt and Canavall festival. The entity assures that it has made the decision after noting the ever-increasing difficulties in keeping the project alive and argues that it needs to "take a step back in order to move forward". This cancellation occurs just after the latest controversy of the Palma City Council with the organization of Pride and another resounding cancellation, that of the Flexas bar party in the Parc de la Mar.

The president of Congress and general secretary of the PSIB-PSOE, Francina Armengol, announced this Saturday, at a party event in Palma, that she will not run in the primaries to lead the socialist candidacy for the 2027 regional elections. "I am doing this out of enormous responsibility at this moment in time. I believe it is for the best," she stated.

The Palma City Council and the majority of Local Police unions have signed peace this Friday, after months of conflict with an agreement that foresees a salary improvement of close to 2,500 gross euros per month for the officers. The measure, which will mean an impact of 10 million euros for the municipal coffers, will have retroactive effects from January 1, 2026, as announced by the mayor, Jaime Martínez.

The Reggaeton Beach Festival (RBF) announced this Thursday the cancellation of the entire tour planned for the summer of 2026 and the cessation of its operations. The festival management assures that, after analyzing the global situation of the project, it has found that the company's operational and financial structure no longer allows for organizing the events with the necessary guarantees. For this edition, it was announced that the festival would be held at Son Fusteret, in Palma, and that Myke Towers would be the headliner.According to the statement, the new administration has detected economic, financial, and operational circumstances that significantly compromise the project's viability, making it impossible to maintain the planned activity for this summer. Sources close to the situation describe the outcome as "the total closure of the company" and "a catastrophe".

The Association of Neighbors of La Soledat has revived the Sant Joan festivities with the aim of once again making this celebration a space for coexistence, identity, and popular culture. From June 19 to 27, the neighborhood will host a program of activities that seeks to recover a tradition that for decades was part of the daily life of La Soledat and the festive heritage of Mallorca.

An operation by the Local Police of Palma against a group of migrant people has generated a strong controversy due to the forcefulness of the intervention. In the video images, a group of police officers charges against several people until they throw one to the ground and hit her repeatedly.

The installation of a promotional stand by the airline company Etihad Airways in Palma's Porta Pintada square has forced the Balearic Islands Blood and Tissue Bank this Thursday to move its usual activity to Plaça d'Espanya, a situation that has also altered the institutional event planned for World Blood Donor Day. The company has occupied this space to promote the new direct connection between Abu Dhabi and Mallorca, which will begin operating this Friday, June 12.

The Ombudsman has opened an investigation into the Palma City Council following a complaint filed by Ben Amics, which accuses the Consistory of violating fundamental rights due to the repeated difficulties that, according to the entity, it has placed in organizing the Pride events.

The Palma City Council has evicted the old Palma prison after a court authorized its execution due to the high risk that, according to various technical reports, the state of the property represents for the people who still reside there. The operation, coordinated between the Local Police and the National Police, began at 12 noon and lasted for a large part of the day. One of the evicted, Bernardino, a 60-year-old Italian who was evicted, criticized being treated like a drug trafficker and commented to journalists: "Tonight I will sleep on the street, in this park, what a mess."

The drivers of EMT Palma have added new complaints about the state of the fleet and the municipal company's infrastructure following criticism leveled in recent days over the lack of operational vehicles and difficulties in incorporating new electric buses. According to staff sources, among the detected incidents are widespread problems with the air conditioning systems of many older buses. The workers, who have sent their complaints to ARA Balears and requested anonymity, assure that a significant portion of conventional buses are operating with climate control systems in poor condition because those in charge have allegedly not performed the necessary annual recharge.