The group Blocus Mallorca has threatened to carry out a "massive destruction" of the camping tents in the Plaça d'Espanya in Palma if any of the participants in its protest this Friday is attacked. "In the event that there is any attack against one of our protesters, we will proceed with the massive destruction of the camping tents", the collective warned in a statement published this Thursday on Instagram.

The Palma City Council has postponed the 2027 budget votes for the Municipal Transport Company (EMT) and the Municipal Parking and Projects Society (SMAP) due to Vox's refusal to guarantee their favorable vote. The boards of directors of both municipal companies were scheduled to meet this Monday afternoon to approve the accounts, but were ultimately called off.

The single ticket for the Palma Municipal Transport Company (EMT) will increase from two to three euros starting next year. The hike has been approved by the City Council's Urban Planning and Environment Commission with the favorable votes of the PP and Vox.

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.

Much like an altar situated in the middle of the public space, the draped facade of Cort, presided over by a religious image of the Blessed Saint Catalina Thomàs, confronted a varied public on Saturday that ranged from tourists—mobile phone in hand to record everything—to 'castellers' and strollers. At the main portal of the municipal building, the Virgin Mary—although Cort has not specified which one.

The Palma City Council has activated a preventive measure to clear settlements located in flood-prone areas due to the risk of torrential rain associated with the DANA Adam. The City Council has enabled the Germans Escales sports center, in Son Gotleu, as a shelter space for the affected individuals.

Palma City Council has recovered the old S’Aigua Dolça facilities as a new municipal sports center, which will open its doors to the public on October 15th. The facilities, located in El Terreno, next to the Paseo Marítimo, will be managed by the Municipal Sports Institute (IME).

Animal rights groups are once again demanding that the replacement of Palma's horse-drawn carriages with electric vehicles have a concrete schedule. Satya Animal, Progreso en Verde, and Arde have called for a demonstration this Saturday, October 17th, at 6:00 PM, to demand that the City Council set public deadlines to make the transition effective and guarantee a dignified retirement for the animals retired from service.

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.

It has been eight years since the Sant Llorenç flash flood. The tragic death of 13 people brought to the table how poorly things have been done for decades, and how we have accumulated people and homes in places where it was not only already prohibited to do so, but where common sense also dictated it was not a good idea.

The Federation of Business Owners of the Balearic Islands (Afedeco) has filed an appeal for reconsideration against the expansion and reorganization of the ORA in Palma within the scope of the Low Emission Zone (ZBE). The entity demands the suspension of the measures, scheduled for January 1, 2027, because it considers that the reduction of short-stay parking spaces could harm the commercial activity of the center.

MÉS per Palma and the PSOE have asked the Palma City Council to investigate how the data regarding the municipal financial aid received by Pilar López has been leaked, the 65-year-old woman who slept in a car for two months after losing her home and who publicly denounced her situation before the Parliament and at the Cort plenary session.

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 approved the construction project to demolish the buildings annexed to the old prison, which formerly housed the homes of the penitentiary center's officials. The Government Board has also initiated the contracting file for the works, which have a budget of more than 423,000 euros. However, the works will not begin until the people currently occupying these spaces have been evicted. This was explained this Wednesday by the municipal government team spokesperson, Mercedes Celeste, who pointed out that before starting the eviction procedure, it was necessary to have the demolition project in place.

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.

MÉS per Palma has denounced that the signage and institutional advertising of the new Parc Verd de Llevant are written "exclusively in Spanish" and do not incorporate Catalan. The party considers that this situation constitutes a breach of the Municipal Regulation on Linguistic Normalization of Palma.

The Spanish government delegate in the Balearic Islands, Alfonso Rodríguez, reiterated this Friday that the National Police will not evict the housing encampment in Palma's Plaza de España, despite the request from the Palma City Council for the Government Delegation to intervene and put an end to the protest.

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.