Caixa Geral, BCP and Novo Banco jointly have filed in the Judicial Court, a ‘summary execution’ against Joe Berardo, of more than €962 million.

962,162,180.21 is the precise figure the banks want to be repaid from the businessman and art collector.

A cargo of logs, being carried by a truck along the A22 between Portimão and Lagoa on the A22 motorway, caught fire on Easter Monday afternoon.

The motorway was closed to traffic as emergency services sprang into action.

The price of housing in the Algarve edged up by 0.6% during the first quarter of 2019, now standing at an average of €2,072 per square metre, according to the Idealista price index.

The highest price increase in the Algarve was in Aljezur, up 7.7%, followed by booming Olhão and Portimão, both up 4.6% followed by Vila Real de Santo António, up 4.5%.

The Portuguese Navy’s Historical Archive, a significant documentary collection that reflects many important aspects of Portugal’s military history.

Researchers, journalists and students long have wanted unrestricted access to the archives but many of the records are sensitive and remain classified.

A bus carrying German tourists, a Portuguese driver and a local guide, has crashed in Madeira, killing 29 people.

All of the fatalities were German, reported Portugal’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday which reiterated the government's condolences to the families of the victims.

Even with the end of the drivers' strike officially at a negotiated end, the country’s fuel stations will take some time again to be fully operational.

Some stations won’t get supplies until the Tuesday after Easter by which time the effects of the transport strike will have worked through the distribution system.

One of Portugal's emblematic white storks (Ciconia ciconia), judged to be around four years old, was found in the Alentejo with shotgun pellets in its body and is recovering in the Algarve.

The GNR’s Nature and Environmental Protection Service (SEPNA) was called by a resident in the Ourique area of the lower Alentejo.

The University of the Algarve and the region’s business network, NERA, has been helping 25 local companies to develop innovative agri-food products as part of a Portuguese-Spanish cross-border cooperation.

Luís Rodrigues, a project manager at the Division of Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer at the University of the Algarve explained agency that this work, "involves partners in the Alentejo, in the Algarve, and in Andalucía, and has as main promoter the Andalucían foundation - Andanatura.