In the past three years, the Bank of Portugal has received more than 15,000 applications to look into accounts held by customers of Portugal’s banks.
Portugal's infrastructure company was asked by the government to ponder the viability of a rail link to Faro airport but now claims it also is studying the viability of connections to Lisbon and Porto airports.
Five Algarve councils, each of which manages a section of the Algarve’s Ria Formosa, are to run a campaign to inform students of the area’s natural and national importance.
According to information provided by the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and the Atmosphere, an earthquake measuring 3.4 on the Richter scale was registered at 11:55 am, today, Friday 6th April.
The epicenter of the sizeable quake was located 45 km west-northwest of Cape S.Vicente, pretty much bang on the Galp-ENI drilling site where work soon is to proceed in the consortium's quest for oil and gas deposits.
The Algarve soon is to be blessed with yet another shopping centre, this time in Alcantarilha where the Conjunto Comercial Quintas do Rogel is to be built on the A22 motorway access roundabout on the EN125. 
Amid the exceptional tourism growth figures that have come to characterise the Algarve region's contribution to the nation's finances, is the one that tourism bosses want to ignore. 
More money, over €15 million, is to be shelled out on the flawed SIRESP emergency communication system that failed, with fatal consequences, during last summer’s fires.
New ambulances purchased for the nation’s Bombeiros firefighting teams have been grounded as they are 'the wrong colour.'
