The plan for a luxury hotel at Monte Gordo that was due to be built ‘almost on the beach’ has been rejected by the Portuguese Environment Agency (Agência Portuguesa do Ambiente) under instruction from the General Environmental Inspectorate (Inspeção Geral do Ambiente.)

The Hoti Hotels Group was planning to start construction of the 'Meliá de Monte Gordo' this year, under a standard cooperation Agreement with Meliá Hotels International, with an opening date of "2018 or 2019" for the four-storey building.

The €8 million refurbishment of the Guadiana International bridge started today with a completion date of 525 days that includes down time during peak periods.

Pedro Marques, the Minister of Planning and Infrastructures, was at today's ceremony to start the project, as well as Iñigo de la Serna, the Spanish Minister of Public Works and Guilherme d'Oliveira Martins, the Portuguese Secretary of State for Infrastructure.

The Faro District Command of the Public Security Police has announced that it has sent 1,500 firearms and replicas that have been amassed at the district Arms and Explosives unit, for destruction and disposal the national Arms and Explosives Unit.

The weapons and replicas collected across the Algarve region are the result of stop and search actions and arms seizures by the police investigating crimes, with many of the weapons handed in by locals.

There’s no stopping Faro’s mayor as he continues to announce voter-friendly initiatives to ease his way back into the president’s seat, come local election time this autumn.

Picking off voter segments one-by-one, this time it's animal lovers, Rogério Bacalhau has announced that Faro’s ratepayers are to fund a 150-animal municipal kennel for the lost and stray cats and dogs on his manor.

Opening a bank accounts from the comfort of your own home soon will be an option in Portugal as the Bank of Portugal is working with the industry to enable banks to provide totally digital facilities.

More and more financial institutions encourage their customers to use online services but opening an account from scratch has not been possible.

The average ecological footprint of each person resident in Portugal, this is the consumption of natural resources and nature's capacity to replenish, increased by 73% between 1961 and 2013.

The renewal capacity, or ‘biocapacity’, measures the amount of biologically productive area available to offset consumption.

An airplane coming in to land at Oporto’s Francisco Sá Carneiro airport managed to avoid a collision with a drone, due only to the pilot’s skill in taking evasive action.

The drone was being operated at 450 metres above ground level and the Transavia Boeing 737-800 performed ‘several maneuvers in order to avoid a potentially catastrophic collision.

Officers of the Judicial Police raided the Lisbon offices of EDP, REN and the Boston Consulting Group this morning as part of an investigation into active and passive corruption.

The Attorney General's Office explained that the investigation is being run by the Central Department of Investigation and Criminal Action which the Public Prosecutor's Office uses in complex cases. Energy bosses António Mexia from EDP and Rodrigo Costa from REN confirm the searches.