The Literanta bookstore has announced its definitive closure after twenty years of activity in the historic center of Palma. It communicated this on Tuesday through a publication on social networks in which it bids farewell to its clients and friends.

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.

Between 1960 and 1980, in just two decades, the population of Palma doubled. It went from 150,000 inhabitants to 300,000. The tourist boom, with its epicenter in l'Arenal, turned the Balearic capital into a kind of promised land not only for peninsulars, especially from Andalusia and Murcia, but also for families from the Part Forana, who were fleeing the harshness of the countryside. One of the suburban neighborhoods that was suddenly colonized was Son Gotleu, located in the Llevant district, between Aragó street and La Soledat. Its transformation can be traced in the exhibition Son Gotleu, beyond the headline. The origins of a welcoming neighborhood (1960-1980). Until the second week of June it will be at the neighborhood's health center and then it will move to the Mater center. It is a project by Palma XXI and Arquitectives, coordinated by the historian from Pollença Leyla Dworkin with the support of Caixa Colonya and Fundació Iniciatives del Mediterrani.

The ATAP union (Association of Public Administration Workers) has called for the cessation of temporary assignments for agents of the Drone Unit (UDROP) due to being a fraudulent act. According to their explanation, the agents were chosen "by hand" through an emergency procedure after the unit's creation in June 2024, but the legal limit of two years for these provisional appointments has already been exceeded.

MÉS per Palma has accused the City Council of "imposing a gag" on residents after the removal of a campaign against noise that several associations had placed in some neighborhoods of the city.

The drivers of EMT Palma denounce a situation of a lack of operational vehicles that, according to them, affects daily service and the municipal company's ability to cover planned reinforcements and frequencies. The workers attribute a large part of the problems to the difficulties in incorporating the 23 new electric buses and to technical incidents in part of the current fleet. These new vehicles are part of the EMT's Strategic Plan 2024-2027, which foresees the incorporation of up to 113 zero-emission vehicles, as announced by the City Council.

The Palma City Council has advocated for the forced eviction of the old prison, where about 80 people currently live, even though the Bishopric of Mallorca has requested it be done in stages, as reported by Europa Press. The spokesperson for Cort, Mercedes Celeste, referred to Bishop Sebastià Taltavull's request after the Governing Board meeting. Taltavull maintains that the residents' reception must be done in a "personalized" way and in small groups to offer specific attention. "We cannot receive 100 people en masse because we wouldn't know where to put them," said the bishop, who reiterated his willingness to collaborate in assisting those affected. Despite the request, Cort has approved the forced eviction "through direct compulsion on individuals." That is, there is the green light to remove residents using physical force.

More than a hundred people have marched through the streets of Palma in a demonstration to demand the negotiation of a collective agreement for the nursery schools despite the failed strike. The march, called by the Xarxa 0-3 of the Balearic Islands with the participation of the CCOO, UGT, and STEI unions, started at 6 p.m. in Plaça d'Espanya and went through Carrer de Sant Miquel, Plaça Major, and Carrer de Colom until reaching Plaça de Cort.

A court in Palma has authorized the entry and forced eviction of the last 80 people residing in the city's old prison, which is expected to be carried out this June.

The Pere Garau Saludable association has reported that the Palma City Council has paved the tree pits of trees felled on Torcuato Luca de Tena street without planning for their replacement. According to the entity, this action is in addition to the sealing of other spaces that previously housed trees on Faust Morell and dels Reis Catòlics streets, which "evidences a progressive reduction" of the green heritage of Palma's most populated neighborhood, they criticize. The association calls for urgent compensatory measures and a municipal strategy that guarantees the recovery of the lost trees.

Som Sindicalistes has filed a formal complaint with the Palma City Council due to the persistence of serious deficiencies in the air conditioning systems of five municipal swimming pools, which have been out of order for some time, two years in one case, a situation that affects working conditions. The formal complaint filed by the union with the IME demands the immediate repair of the faulty air conditioning systems and the correction of all deficiencies that prevent maintaining an adequate temperature in the different affected municipal premises.

The human "pocatraça" has no limits and the Palma City Council is a good example of this. It is enough to listen to a plenary session to confirm that the municipal government does not like groups that are on the margins of what it considers a decent society very much. Cort has not shown much esteem for immigrants, shack dwellers, caravanners, or street artists – at this point, it is worth making a digression: if it is not very, very, very expensive, for the City Council it is not art.

A building on Manuel Sanchis Guarner street in Palma had to be temporarily evacuated this Saturday after a part of the false ceiling of a dwelling detached. The incident, which caused no injuries, occurred at 12:30 PM and mobilized the Palma Firefighters.

If they don't explain to me what it means, what advantages it has, and what it can mean to live in a large metropolitan area of Palma, right off the bat, I don't want to live there. I don't want to be part of it.

The traditional Flexas festival will not be held this year in Parc de la Mar. After being declared a festival of municipal interest last year, the Palma City Council has withdrawn its support for the organization of the event. The decision comes amid controversy over the LGTBIQ+ Pride celebration and represents a new blow to two of the main spaces linked to the visibility and celebration of queer culture.

A resident of the old Palma prison has accused the City Council this Thursday of breaking the promises made to the inhabitants and allowing them to continue living "surrounded by rats and garbage". "We were promised something and absolutely nothing has been done," she pointed out during an intervention at this Thursday's municipal plenary session.

The plenary session of the Palma City Council has definitively approved this Thursday the modification of the General Plan to extend the prohibition of new tourist rental places. The modification had the favorable vote, although with criticism, from MÉS and the PSIB.

The Palma City Council will request the courts to carry out the forced eviction of the last 80 people residing in the old prison, after dismissing the allegations presented. This was confirmed by the spokesperson and councilor for Finance, Contracting and Heritage of the Palma City Council, Mercedes Celeste, at the press conference following the Governing Board meeting, in which this new step has been approved to recover possession of the property that was once inhabited by more than 200 people.

The Palma court of inquiry has ordered provisional detention for the woman accused of killing her mother-in-law last Monday in the Pere Garau neighborhood. The suspect, 36 years old, remains admitted to Son Espases Hospital after her admission was recommended for psychiatric prescription.

The National Police dismantled a drug dealing point this Wednesday in the Palma neighborhood of Son Gotleu, in an anti-drug operation that resulted in six arrests and the seizure of various narcotic substances and cash.