The historic Marítim bar in Palma, located at the foot of the Jonquet neighborhood, is preparing to reopen after four years of being closed. The Balearic Islands Port Authority (APB) selected the proposal from Marport Sunbeach this Thursday as the most advantageous offer to operate the establishment, which first opened its doors in 1951 and was a meeting point for generations of Palma residents for decades. The premises will be renamed Barítimo and will become a Mediterranean and Mallorcan cuisine restaurant, with a committed investment of 1,042,000 euros to renovate the building.

The Governing Board of Palma City Council has approved commissioning the company Urbia Intermediación, ingeniería y servicios SA to carry out the restoration works on the roofs of the towers of the Olivar market. The project has a budget of 256,157.04 euros, VAT included, and a scheduled execution period of six months.

New controversy between the PSOE and the Palma City Council with the Cathedral of Mallorca as a backdrop. The socialists warned this Wednesday of the risk of collapse of the Cathedral's stairs and denounced that eight months have passed since cracks were detected without any action being taken. This same Wednesday, thePalma City Council has begun to carry out surveys to determine the state of the structure and decide what actions are necessary. The City Council asserts that recent technical reports rule out the danger of collapse.

The storm Adam has caused the partial collapse of the roof of the old Iris cinema, in Palma, and has forced the preventive closure of three classrooms in two municipal nursery schools. The incident occurred this Tuesday and did not cause any personal injury, according to the Palma City Council.

Clara Ruiz begins her day while it is still dark. She wakes up at 6 a.m., gets ready, leaves home, and walks for half an hour to Ciutat Antiga, an outsourced municipal nursery school in Palma, where she works as a 0-3 year old teacher. At 7:30 a.m., the early morning service begins: she organizes the day, monitors the children's arrival, and assists families if there is any problem that requires help.

Palma will be the first setting for a debate, on October 14th, on the protection and care of feminist activists and other social movements, organized by the Entrepobles Association, together with Casa La Serena (Consorcio Oaxaca, Mexico) and the Mesoamerican Initiative of Women Human Rights Defenders (IM-Defensoras). The tour, which under the title Defending life through care will travel through Mallorca, Catalonia, and the Valencian Country with the aim of connecting the experiences developed in Mesoamerica with the initiatives promoted by the movements in our territories: climate justice, defense of the territory, feminisms, and community care networks.

The Llibres Colom bookstore in Palma will close its doors at the end of October after 61 years of history. The establishment, located in the square known as Plaça dels Patins, has not found anyone to take over before the retirement of the person in charge, Marian Colom.

The state agency Casa 47 has put out to tender the drafting of the building project for a development of at least 43 affordable homes in Palma, which will be carried out on a plot of 2,344 square meters of surface area located on Ignasi Ferretjans street, in the North district of the city. The estimated value of the contract for the drafting of the building project is 494,868 euros and bids can be submitted until December 9, as reported by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda in a statement.

Palma's municipal housing plan takes a new step forward. The Palma Governing Board approved this Wednesday the constitution of the Compensation Board for the Strategic Residential Project (PRE) of Son Puigdorfila, an area where the construction of up to 623 homes is planned, 320 of which will have some degree of protection. The agreement allows for progress in the project's processing, which began in March with the final approval of the statutes and the operating bases of the Compensation Board.

Palma City Council has reopened traffic on the Avingudes this Wednesday afternoon after repairing a sinkhole in the road near the military barracks.

Motorcycles flying at the Parc de la Mar in front of the Cathedral. Palma City Council has presented the third edition of the SoloFlow Freestyle Ciutat de Palma, which will take place on October 10th, starting at 8:00 PM, at the Velòdrom Illes Balears. During the presentation event, which took place at the Parc de la Mar, an exhibition was offered as a preview of the show.

A total of 12 people have been arrested this Tuesday as part of a major anti-drug trafficking operation in La Soledat and Marratxí. Among those arrested are 'el Pablo', his wife, and other relatives, according to sources close to the investigation.

The fast track that Palma City Council announced in May 2024 to speed up the granting of urban planning licenses has only accelerated 15 of them so far. The City Council assures that there are ten more licenses in process, but it has not provided the rest of the data necessary to evaluate how the system is working. More than two weeks after receiving the questions from ARA Balears, Urban Planning continues to not clarify how many applications have been submitted, what the average timeframe is, how much the service costs, or if the queue for the ordinary process has been reduced.

The Palma City Council has defended the Sustainable Water Management Plan in the face of criticism from the GOB, which has questioned the forecasts for future water availability and has claimed that with the water consumption data used in the document, it will not be possible to supply the 10,000 homes that Cort has planned to build. In contrast, the councillor and deputy spokesperson for Cort, Llorenç Bauzá, stated this Wednesday that the plan is designed to ensure that the city has enough water in the face of the projected population growth and has censured the environmental organization's desire to "manipulate" the information throughout the plan.

We are at the park. At the Estacions park in Palma, where small social ecosystems coexist with each other. Now, from where I wait for my bus departure time, I can observe one. It is the ecosystem of the people sitting around the multiple and enormous planters in charge of generating shade. Inside each one, four trees rise, connected by earth and air: their crowns caress and join into a single roof that shelters us all, and the branches tickle each other with lights and shadows, letting the air in. It is a late summer afternoon and since I sat under the shelter of this porch I have stopped huffing, sweating, and swearing. The city seems, for a moment, habitable.

The Palma Firefighters intervened this Saturday in a fire declared on the roof of the Faculty of Hospitality of the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB), in Palma.

The National Police have arrested in Palma the head of a construction company as the alleged perpetrator of a scam against a woman who handed over more than 23,000 euros to renovate her home and build a swimming pool, work that never even started. The investigation dates back to the end of February, when the victim contacted a construction and renovation company in Palma and agreed with the manager on a budget of more than 46,000 euros to carry out various works on a property she owned.

The Federation of Neighborhood Associations of Palma presented the Rosa Bueno 2026 Awards this Friday, awards that recognize trajectories and initiatives linked to the neighborhood movement. The event was held at the Xesc Forteza Municipal Theater.

UGT Public Services has filed a new complaint with the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and the Environment in which it asserts, based on photographic evidence, that the Son Reus municipal animal shelter stores "decomposing carcasses in a broken refrigerator" and provides the animals with water that, according to the union, is contaminated with legionella.