“Nothing is out of the question”- said João Matos Fernandes, Minister for the Environment and Climate Action today in Loulé, to participate in a seminar on adaptation to climate change. However, the parliamentarian wants to stress that “the problem of the lack of water in the Algarve is not going to be solved with more dams”, also hinting that desalination could be an efficient way to move past the issue.
Faro is set to welcome back the city’s shared electric scooters again starting this Tuesday, February 3rd. After the departure of companies Voi and Circ, it is Bolt, formerly Taxify, who is back to bet on this service in the Algarve’s capital.
A military airplane carrying a group of mostly Portuguese nationals who were stuck in coronavirus-hit Wuhan, the capital of China’s Hubei province, touched down in Lisbon late on Sunday.
“Protect the barrier islands, without which Ria Formosa would not be what it is today" - this is the main objective of the new LIFE project to be presented this Tuesday, February 4th, at the Environmental Education Centre, in Olhão.
Hospitals left with minimal services and schools closed. Public service employees are on strike this Friday, January 31st, and the Algarve is feeling “a strong adhesion” to this stoppage.
New confusion is about to be thrown into the already complicated list of do’s and don’ts for the owners of cats, dogs… and ferrets.
With focus today on Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union, little is being mentioned about a summit in Beja tomorrow bringing together the “Friends of Cohesion” countries” which are desperate to fight their corners.
A judge at Portimão Court has acquitted former Portimão vice-mayor Luís Carito and nine other defendants of all the crimes they were accused of, claiming that none of their charges could be proven.
- SEF declines asylum to 8 Moroccans who arrived in December and dissuades new illegal route, but assesses new arrivals' request
- Mayor of Olhão argues that Portugal should not consider intercepted migrants as refugees
- Chega’s far-right deputy calls for black MP to be "sent back" after art pillaging bill proposal
- 11 migrants intercepted on boat from Morocco in Faro’s Culatra Island
- Huge hydroelectric project to help Portugal eliminate coal by 2023
- Portugal plans to curb golden visa and tax breaks for wealthy foreigners
- Portuguese Government works to repatriate nationals from coronavirus-hit Wuhan
- Portuguese association to produce advanced biofuels from tree-pruning-waste