Sleeping in a dwelling without a toilet, with beds installed in the hallways and in very poor conditions of hygiene and sanitation. This is the latest episode of the exploitation of substandard housing detected in Manacor. According to the people who resided in the house, at certain times they had lived with up to 30 people. Nine were identified during a joint inspection by the National Police and the Government's Housing Inspection service, which also found 24 beds and two rooms locked with keys.

The Avícola Son Perot project to build a farm for 80,000 laying hens at the Son Brau estate, in Manacor, has received all unfavorable reports from the Manacor City Council. Technicians question aspects regarding urban planning, environment, and mobility. The resolution for the integrated environmental authorization now lies with the Government.

Neighbors and animal rights activists formed a human chain this Sunday near Son Brau, in Manacor, to demand that the Government stop the 80,000-hen farm that Avícola Son Perot is planning there. With the file still in environmental processing, the opponents wanted to make visible a concern that ranges from animal welfare to water availability and the quality of life of the residents.

The project for the Avícola Son Perot chicken mega-farm, which aims to produce 26.5 million eggs annually at the Son Brau estate in Manacor, presents urban planning non-compliances and serious environmental shortcomings. This is warned by the mandatory reports issued by the Manacor City Council, to which ARA Balears has had access. All municipal departments that have had to intervene in the administrative procedure have reported unfavorably on this controversial project that is accumulating opponents. The company's track record, involved in multiple complaints of animal abuse and health-related issues, has put the area's residents on a war footing.

ARDE and Satya Animal registered 50,000 signatures this Friday morning against the project for an 80,000-hen factory farm at the Son Brau estate in Manacor, promoted by Avícola Son Perot, which is linked to Avícola Ballester. The entities delivered them to the Government of the Balearic Islands to demand that the new facility not be authorized.

Decomposing chicken carcasses, injured animals, and birds trapped in manure. This is what the recordings that support the second complaint in one week against an Avícola Ballester farm show. Animal rights organizations ARDE and Satya Animal are once again pointing out a facility of the company, this time the one in Es Caparó, in Manacor, where the images recorded in July document scenes that a veterinary report considers compatible with severe deterioration of animal welfare.

Núria Hinojosa will once again repeat as the socialist candidate for the mayoralty of Manacor. The general secretary of the local Socialist Group has announced her intention to be the head of the party's list and thus opt for the municipality's mayoralty with a view to the upcoming municipal elections that will take place on May 23rd. The announcement was formalized during a session of the Group's Executive Commission, where Hinojosa became the candidate to lead the list of the Socialists of Manacor.

A poultry farm at the Mirabó estate, in Manacor, with 40,000 hens, has been reported to the Public Prosecutor's Office of the Balearic Islands for unsanitary conditions and the possible non-compliance with animal welfare regulations. The animal and environmental protection organizations ARDE and Satya Animal have made public images from an investigation carried out in July 2026, in which eggs with mites, cockroaches, and live hens living alongside corpses in different states of decomposition can be seen. Even cases of cannibalism have been documented.

David versus Goliath or how to organize from citizen action against a construction that the neighbors consider a new aggression to the Manacor coastal landscape. “If the Portocristo bridge ended up falling due to a poorly granted license, perhaps this one will too,” says Miquel Àngel Riera, the neighbor from Cala Mendia beach who is leading a joint lawsuit against the construction of a beach club for almost 300 users, which a few months ago began to grow by surprise in front of his terrace.

There will be no prison time for the man from Manacor accused of killing and burning his 82-year-old mother and his brother in April 2024. The Palma Court, however, has sentenced him to 38 years of psychiatric internment. Miquel Binimelis was declared "not criminally responsible" by the Public Prosecutor's Office after he was diagnosed with a severe mental disorder and, for this reason, he has been acquitted of all criminal liability. The man must compensate his sister with 50,000 euros and the National Police officers he attacked when they went to arrest him with a total of 2,520 euros.

Ferran Montero Sitges is now the new mayor of Manacor. With thirteen votes in favor from MÉS-Esquerra and its partners from the PSOE and AIPC, the councilor for Education and Culture has received the political and physical baton from Miquel Oliver, who will continue as a part-time councilor. This Thursday evening, Oliver has completed, in his own words, a "rebranding" at the head of the Manacor City Council, currently the last major stronghold of the left in Mallorca.

The Emergency service of the Hospital of Manacor has been recognized with the BSH (Best Spanish Hospitals Awards) 2026 award as the best hospital Emergency service among medium-sized public hospitals. The award compares the results of the centers based on real data from their healthcare activity.

"When we think it can't get any worse, in a matter of minutes something even more surprising happens," explain Maria Nadal and Tonina Pont, players of the senior women's Primera Nacional team of Club Vòlei Manacor, caught between anger and resignation, stranded in Granada after the airline Vueling cancelled two return flights to Mallorca in less than 24 hours and provided no solution for accommodation or routes to Palma until Friday and Saturday.

The rumor that was insistently circulating through the corridors of the municipal offices has finally been confirmed. 07500 has learned that the until-now mayor of Manacor, Miquel Oliver (Més-Esquerra), has decided to leave more than half a year before this term ends. He is doing so to prepare for the future elections as a candidate for the Council of Mallorca for MÉS and to clear the way for his successor, the until-now councilor for Education and Culture, Ferran Montero, who thus takes over a role that, in theory, was to take effect at the end of May if Més-Esquerra managed to revalidate the trust of the people of Manacor.

Llorenç Brunet (Manacor, 1971) has been an architect from the Vallès School of Architecture since 1996 and founder of Llorenç Brunet i Associats SL, in 2006. He recently celebrated three decades of practice and has been attempting to transform the face of the island from the pearl city. A good opportunity to speak with him about how he has seen this evolution from a very particular and recognizable way of working.

Living in an apartment without an elevator when you are 80 years old can be a problem, but it is even more so if you live in a city where the water that comes out of the taps is not good for drinking or cooking, and you depend on bottled water if you do not want to get sick. This is the case for Antònia, who does not have an osmosis system in her home and relies on her family network to be able to have drinking water. "At my age, I don't have the strength to carry jugs of water up the stairs and I'm afraid of falling," she explains. "I always have to keep after my family to see if they can go buy it for me and bring it up to our home. I feel bad about bothering them because I know they are very busy, but I have no other choice, because with this water I can't even boil potatoes," she adds.

"For decades, nitrates have acted like the dog in the manger, which neither eats the hay nor lets the ox eat it: their presence prevented drinking the water, but the problem was not perceived as urgent enough to mobilize the investments necessary to resolve it." This is asserted by Francesc Grimalt, the manager of the municipal company Serveis de l'Ajuntament de Manacor (SAM), which manages the water supply network. Manacor, with nearly 30,000 inhabitants in its urban center, is considered the most populous city in Spain that still does not have potable water in most of its residential network. Since 2015, work has been underway to modernize the water cycle network to control consumption and reduce leaks, in order to prepare the city for the postponed arrival of potable water to all the taps in the capital of the Llevant region.

At the Manacor agri-food estate, the bustle around the drinking water fountain installed by the City Council in 2021 does not stop. People go there to fill jugs because the water that flows from the taps has not been fit for consumption for more than forty years. With a population of about 30,000 inhabitants, Manacor is the most populous city in Spain that still does not have drinking water in the entire domestic network. In the Balearic Islands, nearly 145,000 people live in areas with water considered unfit for consumption or at risk.

Rhythm is born in Africa. It is worth starting here before asking ourselves what jazz is. Because there are still those who imagine it as music of dark clubs, expensive drinks, and a certain cultural liturgy reserved for the initiated.

Marta Ferré Freitas-Morna (Lisbon, 1978) is already serving as the new manager of the Manacor Theatre and Auditorium. A transition that comes after four decades of Tomeu Amengual at the helm and which opens a new period of hopes and challenges to expand the reach and proposals that go beyond text-based theatre.