The new Comboios de Portugal (CP) long-distance train campaign has entered into force today. Until December 19th, CP will provide 10300 trips with discounts up to 80 percent.

The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, today accepted the government proposal submitted by Prime Minister, António Costa, for the members of the 22nd Constitutional Government, which will have five new ministers, four of which are female.

The project “Renaturalize Monchique” will be presented on October 22nd, at 12:30 pm, in Foia, at the top of Monchique. The meeting session is set to be attended by Michael O'Leary, CEO of Ryanair, the most popular airline in Europe.

The GNR Coastal Control Unit’s Aljezur sub-detachment, yesterday, on October 14th, detained a 36-year-old man for the crime of drug trafficking in Aljezur.

The Algarve is one of the regions of the country with the highest number of teacher vacancies, and the difficulty of finding affordable housing seems to be one of the main causes of the teachers' refusal to accept contracts in the region.

The two countries are located on two different continents, but there is much in common between Portugal and Morocco. The African country was the guest of honour at the Iberian Heritage Biennial, which happened on Sunday, October 13th, in Loulé.

Lagoa and Dartmouth, in the US state of Massachusetts, are preparing a twinning agreement. The process began in March 2018, when the Lagoa executive was invited by their twin city of Lagoa dos Açores, in the Azores, to attend the Sister Cities Meeting in Massachusetts, USA.

Zoomarine set a new record in the summer season this year, reaching a total of 630,000 visitors.