Ibiza constitutes a tourist offering without competition. It sounds exaggerated but it is not. What makes the difference are the discotheques, the best in the world, as recognized by several awards in the last couple of years (the Golden Moon Awards and the annual DJ Mag ranking). Clubs have always been the distinctive Ibizan element, but their weight in the overall offering has skyrocketed since the Matutes Group entered the business with three large venues: Ushuaïa, Hï, and for two seasons now, UNVRS. Right now in Ibiza you can party at night or during the day, under the stroboscopic lights of a club or on a beach, it doesn't matter.

The Local Police of Sant Josep has dismantled an illegal settlement in a protected area of the Ses Salines Natural Park (Ibiza) and has issued a dozen fines with sanctions ranging from 10,000 to 30,000 euros.

A t-shirt from Mango's new summer collection has generated surprise among users in the Balearic Islands due to a geographical error that has not gone unnoticed. The garment, sky blue in color and with an aesthetic inspired by Mediterranean landscapes, shows an image of Es Vedrà on the back with an incorrect location: "Es Vedrà, Mallorca".

Politics has become a risky activity in Spain, a permanent race to sustain improbable majorities, a task more suited to acrobats and movie stuntmen. People who wouldn't suffer from vascular problems under any circumstances. Even in Andalusia, the PP's majority has not withstood the wear and tear. Anxiety and balancing acts: this is also the general situation in the Balearic Islands. Except in Ibiza. On the most turbulent island in the Mediterranean, as modern as it is feverish, politicians live in a beneficial oasis: it is the magic of absolute majority. There is one year left until the next local and regional elections (the last ones were on May 28, 2023) and not a leaf stirs on a tree here. Certainly, in recent weeks Aena has livened things up a bit with its delirious proposal to expand the airport. But hey! We know what we're about here; in a couple of days, no one will remember Aena and its megalomaniacal dreams – which I have no doubt will be executed to a high percentage. The season is starting, and we have to make money for the whole year.

The Court of Instruction 4 of Ibiza has agreed to open a trial against the president of the Consell d'Eivissa, Vicent Marí, accused of prevarication, influence peddling, coercion, and psychological harm to an auditor of the island institution, for the case La vida islados.

The environmental organization Amics de la Terra Eivissa has expressed this Monday its “firm rejection” of the project to build a large car park on Abel Matutes boulevard, in the city of Ibiza, because it considers that it would mean the destruction of one of the main urban green spaces in the area.

The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) has rejected the demand from the Consell d'Eivissa to annul the trademarks 'Ibiza Paradise' and 'Ibiza Paradise by Nacho Cano' associated with the musical by the ex-member of Mecano in cinemas in Madrid.

The Hay Soluciones para el Vertedero de Ibiza platform visited the Coma treatment plant this Monday to demand an end to the transfer of sludge to the Ca na Putxa environmental area. They consider that this practice is aggravating the collapse of the island's landfill and increasing the nuisance to residents of the area, in the municipality of Santa Eulària.

Aena has its own plans for the Eivissa airport and they are not what the Eivissa residents would want. At least, they are not what the Eivissa Council would want, which officially defends that the island has already reached its peak in terms of visitors. So much so that, in Eivissa, just like in Formentera, the number of vehicles that can access it by sea during the summer is limited and regulated. But in Eivissa, visitors arrive mainly by air. And many arrive. Only until April, 1,374,000 passengers have already passed through the Codolar airport. Almost triple those who have passed through Menorca in the same period; let this comparison serve to give an idea of the impact of the Eivissa airport. And the peak season has not yet begun, at the end of the year there will surely be more than 9 million.

Twenty years ago, in Ibiza, it was a topic of debate what is or is not a motorway. And not just a debate: a discussion, a fierce dispute. The macro-project to widen the roads to the airport and to Sant Antoni, which Jaume Matas promoted in his second term in the Balearic Government (2003-2007), managed to make us Ibizans experts in mobility, roads, and the environment. It also managed to get more than 20,000 people to take to the streets on February 17, 2006, against the macro-project. Now, twenty years later, clubbers and residents cross the blue motorways that Matas commissioned (or dual carriageways or widenings or expanded roads, whatever you want to call them) to get equally stuck at the entrance to Vila. Now, twenty years later, hardly anyone remembers the 'anti-motorway' activists. Almost. By chance or destiny, the playwright and philologist Carme Planells has won the La Carrova theatre prize (awarded outside the Balearic borders, in Amposta) with the play Enlloc, a piece of documentary theatre that pays homage to the historic Ibizan mobilization between 2003 and 2006. The mobilization did not stop the motorways, but it did have political consequences: in 2007, both Jaume Matas and Pere Palau (who was then president of the Consell d’Eivissa) lost the elections.

An investigation led by the Center for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (Creaf) warns that the horseshoe snake (Hemorrhois hippocrepis), an invasive snake that already occupies 90% of Ibiza and can swim to the islets, "threatens" to extinguish the Pitiusa lizard (Podarcis pityusensis).

A study led by the Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (Creaf) warns that the horseshoe whip snake (Hemorrhois hippocrepis), an invasive snake that already occupies 90% of Ibiza and can swim to islets, "threatens" to extinguish the Balearic lizard (Podarcis pityusensis).

The president of the Consell de Eivissa, Vicent Marí, has spoken out against the planned expansion of the island's airport. In statements to IB3 Ràdio, the president assured that these works "go against the tourism model proposed by the Consell" and also criticized harshly that he had to learn about both the expansion and the details of the works through the media. "We don't have to grow in quantity, we have to grow in quality," Marí stated.

A man of Irish nationality and about 40 years old died this Monday after falling off a cliff in the municipality of Sant Joan, in Ibiza.

The PSOE of the Consell d'Eivissa has publicly denounced that some of the new buses for the new public transport system are parked in a vacant lot in Platja d'en Bossa and, due to the recent rains, have become trapped in the mud and cannot move. This, according to the socialists, means they have been unable to operate to provide the planned service.

Two disruptive passengers who forced the diversion of a Ryanair flight last May, which was flying the route between London and Ibiza, will have to pay a joint fine of over 10,000 euros. This has been determined by the Toulouse Criminal Court, which has also sentenced them to ten months in prison, a sentence that has been suspended.

Not only lizards are becoming extinct in Ibiza. The family, as a basic unit of tourist consumption, is also rapidly being replaced on the largest of the Pitiusas by groups of clubbers and the 'real rich'. Within the real rich there are also families, it is true – not infrequent are the

One of the most emblematic products of the Ibizan gastronomic tradition and the Balearic Islands has crossed borders and reached Japan. The Ibizan herbs from the Marí Mayans firm have participated in the Anuga Japan 2026 fair, in Tokyo, where they have aroused the interest of professionals and visitors in one of the most demanding markets in the world.

A 30-year-old young man died this Wednesday afternoon after being stabbed in Platja d’en Bossa, in the municipality of Sant Josep de sa Talaia, Ibiza. The events occurred shortly after 4:45 p.m. in front of the El Campito bar, as reported by SAMU 061.

The National Police Force evicted this Wednesday the illegal settlement known as Venta des Coloms, installed on private land located in the vicinity of Can Misses Hospital and the Municipal Stadium Sánchez Vicario, in Ibiza. The operation was carried out without incident and with the voluntary departure of the last three people who resided there.