
Restaurant terraces in La Lonja, Palma Mallorca
Restaurants complained of less spending per tourist in 2024.
The growing homeless settlement next to Palma's Via Cintura
There is a clear risk because of the proximity to the motorway.

Winter tourists in Palma, Mallorca
January attracts fewer tourists than any other month of the year.
Palma's 'Las Vegas' drugs centre: Mayor frustrated by slowness of procedures
Jaime Martínez: "If it had been up to me, the bulldozers would have gone in last week."
Grey skies but colour galore for Palma's Carnival parade
Record participation for this year's parade.

Entrance to an old air-raid shelter in Palma, Mallorca
Works at the school will continue.
Viva Las Vegas: Mallorca's drugs supermarket
A large neon sign plus LED lighting for the Son Banya drugs business sector.
Expulsion from the Balearics for robbers who targeted luxury homes
The two were arrested in July last year.
Publicity campaign against illegal holiday lets in Palma
A legal services firm is behind the campaign. It is fighting "for what is fair".

Apartments in Palma, Mallorca that squatters attempted to occupy
The new apartments in the Son Oliva district of Palma.
Fight over the best flat alerted neighbours to an attempted occupation by squatters in Palma
Three vanloads of the National Police's rapid reaction squad turned up.
The transformation of Palma's seafront
Four elements are coming together, plans for the GESA building being one of these.
Six months behind schedule, Palma Paseo Marítimo work will be finished in mid-April
The president of the local business association isn't convinced.

Renovation work at the Victoria Gran Meliá Hotel in Palma, Mallorca
Renovation work at the Victoria Gran Meliá Hotel.
Palma's famous Social Club has a new home
The Social Club nightspot was demolished last year as part of the redevelopment of the Paseo Marítimo.
Tanker spill causes five hours of traffic chaos in Palma
The accident occurred shortly before 8am.
Palma Paseo Marítimo bridges to be demolished next week
Being done at the same time in order to minimise disruption to traffic.
- Balearic government plans big increase in tax on cruise ship passengers and even a cash levy on hire cars
- Another body found by a Mallorca beach
- Heavy rains return to Spain putting country on RED alert
- As the town hall announces 21 million euros investment, Playa de Palma residents denounce drugs and homelessness
- Saturday weather in Mallorca