A new walkway and pontoon has been installed at Praia de Faro, replacing the old infrastructure that was beyond its useful life and anyway, was destroyed in the April 2017 storms that battered the Algarve coastline.
Leisure and fishing boat owners will be safer using the new pontoon, which cost €148,900.
A fire this morning at the Pestana Viking Hotel site in Senhora da Rocha, Lagoa, forced management to evacuate guests from the popular hotel.
According to the commander of the Lagoa Bombeiros, Vítor Rio, the station received the alert shortly before 08:00 on Wednesday morning.
To the unbridled joy of EN125 road users crawling through the slow-moving traffic of Olhão, a new roundabout is being created to ‘ease the pain’.
The Council remains determined to build the roundabout at the junction between Avenida D. João VI and the road north to Pechão.
A test is being carried out in Switzerland which may pave the way for IKEA stores to stat renting out their stock.
Office furniture and kitchens are the first categories to be tested as a rental products and, according to Ikea Portugal, "new solutions are being explored in the initial stages of testing," choosing not to deny of confirm that the scheme would be rolled out across Portugal.
German holiday airline Germania collapsed on Tuesday, cancelling all flights, after failing to secure emergency funding.
Germania, which carried around four million passengers each year, follows the failure of Air Berlin in 2017.
José Mourinho has joined the list of shame and now has to pay a €2 million fine in order to stay out of Spanish jail
Mourinho accepted a one-year prison sentence and a €2-million fine for defrauding the Spanish Tax Agency back in 2011 and 2012 costing the taxman €1.6 million and €1.7 million respectively.
A new species of bee and has been discovered by a Portuguese biologist in the Vale do Guadiana Natural Park.
Protosmia lusitanica, a small, black bee with an orange abdomen was discovered by Ana Gonçalves in the spring of 2016 on the banks of Ribeira do Vascão, in Mértola, while visiting the Alentejo region.
EDP’s relentless quest to relieve Portugal’s taxpayers of cash continues, as the company stated today that it will go to court to keep hold of the €285 million that the government is demanding back.
EDP has filed a petition challenging the acts that oblige it to pay over the money, a sum the State claims was 'overcalculated.'
