This was Portugal’s most hotly contested legislative election since the ‘Carnation Revolution’ 50 years ago. The outcome has been a slim victory for the centre-right Democratic Alliance over the incumbent centre-left Socialist Party. Both of the main centrist parties will likely jockey with small parties to gain the most seats in parliament, but the far-right made such gains to finish third that it will provide much stronger opposition than ever before. 

The vice-president of the Portuguese Environment Agency has praised the agricultural and golf sectors in the Algarve for using around three times less water than required by the Government, this February compared to last February.

According to the IPMA, all but 3 districts In Portugal are under yellow warning due to precipitation from Wednesday night until Sunday morning.

The PSP have arrested a 39 year old man in Portimão, after receiving information that a citizen was being forced to hand over 1000 euros for his residence permit, which had been sent to the wrong address by mistake.

In an operation which took place across the country between August 20, 2023 and February 28 of this year, police detained 113 people and detected 140 crimes related to hunting.

A GNR source has confirmed that a 17 year old footballer who attacked a referee in a second-tier under-17 district game, in Loulé on Sunday, has been identified and charged.

The Institute for the Conservation of Nature and Forests (ICNF) is developing a monitoring system for Iberian Lynxes so that motorists can know almost in real time that there is a Lynxl nearby, and hopefully avoid it being run over.

The Portuguese nanosatellite will travel aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, which will take off from the SpaceX base, a company owned by billionaire, Elon Musk.