A violent collision between a tourist bus and a concrete mixer on the Via do Infante left four people seriously injured on Wednesday morning, 16th May. Both vehicles were travelling in the same direction when the bus was driven into the back of the mixer.
According to the Civil Protection authority, the accident took place at 07:54 on Wednesday morning in the Areeiro tunnel area, near Loulé, on the Algarve’s Via do Infante motorway.
Prisoners are getting some fresh air and exercise while clearing-up rubbish and cutting back vegetation on the Ria Formosa island of Armona.
Portugal’s 'People Animals Nature' (PAN) political party has announced a new parliamentary bill as part of its continuing drive to abolish bullfighting in the country.
Portugal’s stay at home kids are delaying departure from the family nest until late in their 20s. 
The tax burden shouldered by Portugal’s companies and population last year was the highest in 22 years.
As the EDP board prepare to reject the takeover bid from China Three Gorges, the Left Bloc leader, Catarina Martins said that if Chinese deal goes ahead, this would be, "a particularly dangerous move."
"How do we explain that the Portuguese State cannot control our energy and that the Chinese State can?"
Tens of thousands of Portugal’s, ‘undocumented’ immigrants, the backbone of thousands of farms and labour-intensive businesses, are paying social security contributions but have no eqivalent access to the State healthcare system.
The marine research centre at the Algarve’s University has warned that the continuing dumping of plastics is threatening the ocean, marine ecosystems and human health.
