Portugal’s French-owned airports operator, ANA, claims already to have delivered all the documentation necessary to turn the Montijo Air Force base into a commercial civil airport - “only government approval is lacking,” said João Nunes, ANA’s director of Lisbon’s Humberto Delgado airport.

"From ANA, everything to do with the project that was needed, has been done. There were some pending issues to do with environmental studies, but these also have been delivered," Nunes told reporters during the presentation of a new check-in area at the current Lisbon Airport, adding that the government has all the necessary elements "to enable decision-making."

The identity of a foreign couple, who fell down a cliff face in onto the beach in Ericeira on Tuesday, has been revealed.

The tourists fell from a height of 30 meters when they were taking a ‘selfie.’

Lisbon will be "the first city in southern Europe to have direct flights to and from San Francisco," announced Portugal’s prime minister at a meeting of investors in San Francisco.

The prime minister announced the new TAP service, which is scheduled to start in 2019, as part of a pitch for new investment for Portuguese tech companies.

The court in Moulins, France, has handed out a prison sentence of four years to Arménio Pinto Martins, the owner of the van involved in an accident in March 2016, that killed 12 Portuguese emigrants living in Switzerland.

The driver, Ricardo Pinheiro, now 21, was sentenced to three years in prison.

Portimão Council is entering into the spirit of the 2018 FIFA World Cup by installing a huge LED Wall in the Praça da República so people can watch all the top games.

The giant screen will be inaugurated on Wednesday, June 13 and will be in place until July 15, from 11:00 am each morning until 10:00 p.m.

Seven fishermen in a sinking trawler, five nautical miles off Sagres, were rescued from their liferaft by a nearby fishing boat at dawn today.

According to the Captain of the Port of Lagos, Conceição Duarte, the seven crewmembers of the Luzé, from Póvoa de Varzim, "were on a life raft, are all well and they did not need medical assistance."

Foreign buyers of Portuguese property, keen to obtain a Golden Visa, believed that Maria Antónia Cameira was just the sort of lawyer to solve their problems and smooth the way.

Brazilians, South Africans, Chinese and others, entrusted the ‘go-to’ lawyer with their money to buy properties for a minimum of €500,000 as part of their Golden Visa application process.

The Secretary of State for Housing said it is a good idea that an Alojamento Local licence is not automatically transferred to a new owner when the property is sold.

This “may be a means of balancing the market,” said Ana Pinho, speaking at a hearing of the working group set up to review the local housing law, stressing the importance of giving Councils a "regulatory role, to balance the public interest, the right to housing, but also the local tourism activity."