Prime Minister, António Costa, claimed that the "good results" of the economy and lower unemployment figures "are not just chance, but the result of government policy."
Three medical services directors at Faro Hospital have tended their resignations, citing pressures brought to bear on them by management, to free up hospital beds by sending patients home earlier than medically appropriate.
Following the weather service's lack of forecasting success for the Algarve in the past 48 hours, the IPMA has pressed ahead with another set of warnings including the arrival of 12 metre waves that are set to crash into the cliffs of the western Algarve and west coast of the Alentejo.
A 54-year-old Finnish woman died today after falling from the 8th floor of a building near the Martinho Castelo Branco School in Portimão.
Three officers from the Public Security Police were attacked by a man wielding a hammer and a hoe.
Unemployment, unstable jobs, short-term contracts and low wages make it "very difficult" for young people to afford housing, warns a Caritas Europe study released on Tuesday.
Portugal’s pig farmers are fully aware of the problems their porkers create, with the resulting effluent having an uncanny way of finding its way into the country’s rivers and over-powering waste water treatment plants.
As the government's working group takes its time in unpicking the current Alojamento Local, short-term tourist rental, rules and regulations, in an effort to create something workable, Airbnb has its own solution to one of the trickier aspects of this booming market.
In July 2017, the Socialist Party had the idea that if a rental licence was applied for in a building covered by condominium rules, the other property owners could decide whether or not their neighbours AL license could go ahead. This is fraught with problems.
