Calvià Local Police presented this Friday the new Drone Unit, a service that will come into operation coinciding with the start of high season and which has involved an investment of 82,000 euros in technological equipment and training. The device was unveiled at the Son Bugadelles barracks and, according to the City Council, will allow for increased surveillance, citizen security, and emergency response in the municipality.

The partial collapse of a hotel in Calvià on Thursday night led to the partial evacuation of the establishment and the sealing off of the affected area, as reported by the Mallorca Fire Department. Two people sustained minor injuries, both with superficial wounds and one case of fainting. This Friday, the property's management has decided to close the hotel for safety reasons, and guests are being relocated to other hotels in the area.

The promenade of Palmanova's Mar will host on April 18 and 19 a cultural weekend that consolidates a significant change in Calvià's festive model. The municipality will celebrate Book Day and, the following day, Saint George, patron saint of England, in an institutional effort to strengthen the link with British tourism.

A minor was injured this Tuesday afternoon after falling several meters from a hotel in Son Caliu, in the municipality of Calviá.

Ibiza and Calvià remain among the ten municipalities with the highest rental prices in Spain, with rents exceeding €22 per square meter. This is according to the report. Rental housing in Spain in the year 2025According to the study prepared by the real estate portal Fotocasa, Ibiza ranks second in Spain, with an average price of €23.34/m², surpassed only by Esplugues de Llobregat, which leads the ranking at €25.53/m². Calvià comes in fourth, with an average price of €22.17/m², while Barcelona is just ahead of Ibiza, at €23.30/m². The report also analyzes price trends by province and places the Balearic Islands as the fourth most expensive in Spain, with an average of €18.60 per square meter, representing a year-on-year increase of 7.2%. Only Barcelona (€21.90/m²), Madrid (€20.66/m²), and Gipuzkoa (€19.02/m²) have higher prices. Fotocasa notes that the rental market closed 2025 with a scenario marked by "very high prices," concentrated mainly in areas with strong demand, such as Catalonia, the Community of Madrid, the Balearic Islands, the Basque Country, and the Canary Islands. In this regard, the portal's Director of Studies and spokesperson, María Matos, explains that "the increase in rental prices is especially concentrated in areas with greater demographic and economic pressure, where the creation of new housing stock is unable to absorb existing demand." This structural lack of supply, she adds, causes prices to remain persistently high, even in contexts of lower economic growth. Matos also points out that, although the rate of price growth has moderated in some areas, rents remain at "peak levels," which demonstrates that "the adjustment is not due to a real market relaxation, but rather to the economic limitations of households in affording increasingly higher rents."

The Calvià Town Council has approved the necessary permits and budget allocation to organize a San Fermín festival in July 2026 featuring a bull run with cows from the Galatzó public estate, located in the Capdellà district. The project will be officially presented next January at the International Tourism Fair (Fitur) in Madrid. According to a statement released by the Town Council, which was ironically sent on April Fool's Day (a Spanish holiday), the initiative aims to revive a tradition that, according to municipal records, dates back to 1866 and is linked to the town's bullfighting past and the figure of the bullfighter known as Capellanet. The animals that would participate in the bull run are one bull and seven Mallorcan cows, which were released onto the Galatzó estate in early December to contribute to natural vegetation clearing and the prevention of forest fires. According to the City Council, the cattle have adapted quickly to the environment and possess a "suitable" temperament to play a leading role in the festival. The mayor of Calvià, Juan Antonio Amengual, expressed his satisfaction with the project, which he described as an initiative that combines "festival, tradition, and memory" and allows, he said, the municipality to showcase a little-known past. Amengual also highlighted the festival's potential as a tourist attraction, as it would complement the municipality's established offerings. For his part, the Deputy Mayor for the Environment and driving force behind the proposal, Juan Thomàs, assured that the City Council will take all necessary measures to ensure the running of the bulls takes place "in a way that is respectful to the animals" and without causing them, he stated, "any negative emotional impact." Thomàs even went so far as to describe the activity as a "zero stress animal" bull run.

The Calvià Town Council, governed by the People's Party and Vox, has finalized its agreement for the 2026 municipal budget, which totals €121.57 million – €152 million if the consolidated budget including public companies and organizations is included – figures similar to the previous year. The Council maintains that the budget consolidates financial stability and allows for planning for the next fiscal year. The municipal government states that the budget continues the improvement of public services, with a particular focus on citizen security, and strengthens social, cultural, and educational policies. One of the key points is investment in infrastructure: €43 million is earmarked over the course of this term, the highest figure ever recorded in the municipality. Among the highlighted projects are the second phase of the Gabriel Escarrer seafront promenade renovation (Magaluf), the refurbishment of Jaime I Avenue in Santa Ponça and the Peguera Boulevard, as well as the modernization of the houses on the Galatzó public estate and the Torrenova development. In the education sector, investments stemming from the agreement between IMEB and the Ministry of Education will continue, with €5.94 million allocated to improvements in 11 public preschool and primary schools. Free tuition for children aged 0-3 in municipal nurseries will also continue, along with year-round operation. The budget also includes the agreement with IB-Salut to build two new primary healthcare units in Son Ferrer and Peguera, and to relocate the existing one in Capdellà, with a planned investment of approximately €6 million. The City Council attributes the budget's approval to the support of the Balearic Government and the Council of Mallorca. The document is expected to be approved at an extraordinary plenary session, where the specific budget items and implementation schedule for 2026 will be detailed.

This Friday is a historic day for the Balearic Islands: the regional government has begun the demolition of the old Teix Hotel in Magaluf and the Colón Hostel in Peguera, the first such demolition in the 21st century in the Balearic Islands to free up space. The streets where the former establishments are located were closed off by the local police, and only the cars of the attending politicians, of which there were many, were allowed access. In front of the Teix Hotel, the president of the regional government, Marga Prohens, announced plans to replicate this initiative in other municipalities across the islands, specifically in Cales de Mallorca and Sant Antoni de Portmany. The regional government intends to continue demolishing "obsolete" hotels with the aim of "moving away from an offering that no longer adds value to the islands and improving services and the quality of life for residents," explained President Prohens. In fact, the regional government will allocate 15 million euros from the Sustainable Tourism Tax (ITS) to the acquisition and demolition of such facilities.

The demolition of the former Hotel Teix in Magaluf and the Hostal Colón in Peguera will begin this Friday, as part of the renewal of established tourist areas in Calvià. This was announced by the mayor of the municipality, Juan Antonio Amengual, this Wednesday at the World Travel Market in London during an event at the Balearic Islands stand. The mayor, the municipal government team, and the President of the Balearic Government, Marga Prohens, among other authorities, will attend the start of the demolitions. With this initiative, as highlighted by the City Council, Calvià is advancing in the regeneration process of established areas and gaining spaces that will be for public use. "With these demolitions, we are fully entering the renewal of established areas of the municipality; these are the first demolitions carried out in Calvià in the 21st century," said Amengual, who explained that the objective is to recover land for public use. The purchase of the Hotel Teix in Magaluf was formalized by the Calvià Town Council on March 20th, following a private purchase agreement reached with its former owners at the beginning of February. The acquisition of the property, which had been closed for years, was financed with funds provided by the European Union's Next Generation Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, managed through the Government. This demolition follows that of the former Hostal Colón in Peguera, also acquired by the Town Council under the same conditions. Thus, the total investment allocated to the purchase and demolition of both establishments amounts to approximately 6 million euros. For the Town Council, the demolition is not only an urban planning operation, but also a "declaration of principles" regarding "commitment to a more people-friendly, livable, and sustainable city model, where the land serves the people, and not the other way around."

The Balearic Islands Transport (TIB) buses connecting the Calvià, Inca, Manacor, Sa Pobla, Alcúdia, Llucmajor, and Campos area with Son Sant Joan Airport will offer a regular service year-round, even during the off-season, as announced this Thursday by the Minister of Housing, Mobility, and Territory, José Luis Mat. This service will begin this Saturday on lines A11 (Camp de Mar-Airport), A33 (from the Port of Alcúdia), A43 (Manacor), and A51 (Campos). Buses will run every hour to every hour and 1 hour and 15 minutes, depending on the line. The first buses will depart between 4:15 and 4:40 a.m. for the airport, and the last buses will leave Son Sant Joan between 10:30 and 11:40 p.m. The four lines will have an average of between 26 and 38 daily trips. Mateo emphasized that this is the first time a regular service has been offered on the four Aerotib bus lines during the off-season and from Monday to Sunday. The objective of this initiative is to "respond to the demand of citizens" and guarantee connectivity between the main population centers of Mallorca and the airport. According to the manager of the Mallorca Transport Consortium (CTM), Luisa Serra, the Aerotib service had not been offered during the off-season in the last five years, and in the three years prior, from 2017 to 2019, it was offered with a maximum of eight trips per day. These changes have been made possible thanks to the modification of the concessions of the bus service. With the change in the three contracts, the service offering goes from 16.5 million kilometers (included in the contracts initiated in 2021) to 24.6 million annually in the modification, which represents an increase of almost 50% of the service initially planned.

The coordinator of the United Left in Calvià, Alfonso Rodríguez, stated this Wednesday that, in just over two years of government, "there has been no progress in social policies that improve the lives of residents in the municipality." Specifically, he highlighted the length of time it has taken to deliver the 99 social housing units in Santa Ponça. "It's been two years for a process that should have been completed in several months, and this delay has cost the successful bidders thousands of euros," he lamented.

The King James Festival in Santa Ponça is celebrating its 31st anniversary this year, commemorating the 796th anniversary of King James's landing. The program runs from this Saturday, August 30th, to next Sunday, September 7th, and includes a variety of activities. Highlights include:

Christian Lawyers has filed a complaint with a Mallorcan court against Sebastián Palmer, a member of the PSIB (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party) in Calvià City Hall, and artists Baaldo and Domi Shameless for the "highly sexual content" of their performance at one of the events during the Peguera festival.

77% of Mallorca's taxis will provide their service jointly to eight municipalities on the island (Palma, Calvià, Esporles, Valldemossa, Llucmajor, Deià, Puigpunyent and Bunyola), all located between the Bay of Palma and the Tramuntana mountain range. This means that taxis in these municipalities will be able to pick up passengers in any other town that has signed up to the agreement and unload passengers anywhere in Mallorca. The towns that have joined the joint taxi service will also have the new single rate which has prompted the Government.

A 66-year-old man died this Sunday while scuba diving in the waters of the Toro area (Calvià). At the time of the incident, around 1:30 p.m., the victim was diving with his partner and, feeling ill, returned to the boat waiting for them on the surface, where he went into cardiac arrest, according to Europa Press.

Irish novelist John Boyne, who achieved worldwide fame for The boy in the striped pajamas, heads the list of confirmed participants in the fifth edition of the Magaluf Expanded Literature Festival (FLEM), which will be held from October 2 to 5 at the Innside Calvià Beach hotel.