In recent years, forest fires have become an increasingly important issue for the government to combat. It is not simply a problem for the Algarve either, it is a countrywide epidemic.

Two months ago controversy arose over a concrete structure around 30 meters long, one and a half meters wide, and one and a half meters high, which had been illegally built on the coast of Culatra Island, in the Farol region. The ugly construction was in plain sight of local residents, and just a few steps from the bank of the Ria Formosa and right in the middle of the Natural Park.

Marta Temido, the Government’s Minister of Health, said to press earlier today, Friday December 6th, that there is no shortage of doctors in the Algarve’s hospitals, despite cries for help from local doctors and politicians alike.

President of the Order of Doctors, Miguel Guimarães was at the Faro Hospital A&E unit earlier today, following the decision of surgeons to refuse to work overtime in the emergency room.

In an interview with Lusa, Manuel Machado, president of the National Association of Portuguese Municipalities (ANMP), has called for more political power to be given to regions through administrative decentralization, believing that it will serve as an "opportunity for the modernisation of the state".

Portugal won’t exclude Chinese companies from supplying technology for the country’s new 5G wireless network, senior Portuguese officials told U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday.

An elderly British woman has died in a horror car crash in the Algarve which claimed three lives and left five injured, including three children.

Turismo de Portugal have launched their first campaign aimed at attracting LGBT individuals to Portugal. The project is a result of close work alongside Algarve-based company KOBU Agency. "After all, the best way to travel is to feel." This is the motto of the campaign, taken from a verse by Álvaro de Campos, heteronym of poet Fernando Pessoa.