National road company, Infraestruturas de Portugal, at last has announced that its contractor is starting €250,000 of emergency work to the crumbing EN125 eastern section between Olhão and Vila Real de Santo António.
According to the company, a set of emergency repairs will be carried out to correct the damaged areas that have been identified on the 38 kilometre stretch of road.
Four dozen property sector companies will gather at the Algarve Real Estate Exhibition at the Arade Congress Centre - a monument to the State’s lack of grasp when it comes to property matters.
The famous ‘white elephant’ congress center, whose annual losses are covered by Lagoa and Portimão councils, is situated in Parchal, Lagoa, and is the venue for the show that runs from June 7th to 9th.
A railway workers strike scheduled for Monday, June 4th, is causing problems with some services being cancelled on Sunday.
José Manuel Oliveira, coordinator of the Federation of Transport and Communications Workers, one of the six unions involved in the strike, said he did not know how many trains had been cancelled, as things were rather unpredictable.
A rare phenomenon for Portugal was spotted and photographed from Praia do Cabeço, in Castro Marim.
A Solar Halo occurs when fine ice particles are suspended in the atmosphere, which reflect sunlight at a certain angle to the earth.
A head-on collision between a passenger car and a light goods vehicle has killed a 38-year-old man and seriously injured three others.
Among the wounded is an eight-year-old.
Litio, the Iberian Lynx whose tracking device malfunctioned just two days after his release into the wild, has been spotted in south-eastern Spain.
The lynx has been unaccounted for after his release in southern Portugal two years ago.
A 25-year-old Portuguese man got involved in an argument over a girl whom he used to date.
A Spaniard was stabbed in the ensuing fight with the local, who, when he came across the Spaniard in the company of his ex-girlfriend at Reno's bar, Avenida Sá Carneiro, an argument got out of control and the Spaniard was stabbed in one of his hands.
An earthquake registering 2.9 on the Richter Scale was registered at 6:14 this morning, Sunday June 3rd.
The epicentre was about 20 kilometres south-southwest of Lagos with the Rede Símica do Continente recording the tremor on the mainland from various of its monitoring stations at Vaqueiros, Marmelete, Barranco do Velho, Aljezur, Budens, Tavira, Portimão, Lagos, Albufeira, Faro and Sagres.
