Architects across the country are appalled that a law enabling around 4,000 civil engineers to submit and sign-off architectural projects, has been passed by the review committee. 
The Teflon Angolan, Álvaro Sobrinho, has had his office in Portugal searched on the orders of the Attorney General's Office as part of Operation Lex, involving Judge Rui Rangel and other defendants.
The Environment Minister has assured the Parliamentary Committee on the Environment that there will be no further demolitions beyond the 22 'at risk' houses on the island of Culatra whose owners already have been notified.
Loulé court today has suspended all oil and gas drilling activity off the Alentejo coast for three months.
Albufeira’s town hall flag is at half-mast today after the city’s mayor, Carlos Eduardo Silva e Sousa, suffered a heart attack and died at his home on Thursday evening - he was 60-years-old.
A Venezuelan woman was hospitalised in Spain after claiming she had been raped and abandoned on the Camino de Santiago.
The Foreigners & Borders Service has completed an operation to dismantle an organisation run by a foreign citizen who controlled 20 brothels in various parts of the country including Quarteira and Faro.
The government has sent an email to Portugal’s householders, advising them of what to do to comply with existing fire regulations.
