Algarve MP, Cristóvão Norte, has been cleared of ‘receiving undue advantage’ in the Galpgate case.

The Public Prosecutor has closed the file on the Social Democratic MP’s freebie attendance at the Euro 2016 football event in France.

The Monchique fire in 2018 most likely was caused by an electrity line touching and setting fire to a eucalyptus tree.

The Independent Technical Observatory, created by parliament to monitor forest fires, points to, "a specific place the fire started and this being caused by an electric line, which EDP refutes."

Francisco Lacerda is to resign from the position of president of CTT.

The post office boss was in his third term at the helm of CTT and considered that a change of the company's leadership team was necessary.

Laura Angélica Bragança, a 10th year student at Pinheiro e Rosa High School in Faro, died on Friday morning in Budapest, Hungary, following a minibus accident.

The 16-year-old girl was part of a group of students visiting the country. Another student from the Algarve was seriously injured.

A man has been arrested and held on suspicion of stabbing a 19-year-old male, resulting in his death.

The 20-year-old is the only suspect in the homicide.

Portugal’s government has warned the nation’s bank chiefs that issuing free ATM banks cards to customers must continue as it is the current law that charges are not made for this facility.

In response to banking CEOs pushing for a €20 charge per card per year, the Secretary of State for Consumer Protection stated that he is not going to have the law changed just to enable banks to charge customers.

For the first time since 1843, an adult brown bear* has been spotted on Portuguese territory.

This landmark for the conservation of the Cantabrian bear population was due to the sighting in the Montesinho Natural Park Bragança, reports the Institute of Nature Conservation and Forests.

Lagoa Council remains deaf to protests over environmental crime at Alagoas Brancas where it is keen to see a supermarket built on an important  wetland site.

Campaigners trying to save the natural area in Lagoa were ordered to be silent in a recent council meeting.