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Portugal lost 14,400 inhabitants last year, but it could have been so much worse. All reports stress the importance of immigrants which were up last year from 36,639 in 2017 to 43,170. Explains [...]

Two seagulls ‘rescued’ and treated by Algarve animal recovery centre RIAS before being released back into the wild have been tagged over 5,000 kms away, in Scotland and Iceland (the country). The [...]

One person was injured this afternoon after a light plane made an emergency landing on the A12 motorway near Pinhal Novo (Setúbal district), hitting three vehicles. None of the vehicle occupants [...]

GNR police were called to the usually sleepy village of Alte (in the borough of Loulé) last week when citizens mounted a protest to highlight how water is literally being taken from their [...]

With the critical season for wildfires well and truly upon us – and fire stations up and down the country on heightened alert – news broke over the weekend that the effervescent founder of the [...]

The maternity unit in Portimão has been forced to close till next Tuesday (June 11) due to lack of doctors (specialists in pediatrics). All ‘at risk’ pregnant women have been transferred to Faro, [...]

Against the “systematic opposition” of ruling PS Socialists, parliament today has approved the bulk of draft resolutions presented by ‘left wingers’ Bloco de Esquerda and animal rights party PAN [...]

It has taken months of ‘media exposés’ and insinuations but the mayor of Pedrógão Grande – the borough devastated by wildfires that killed 66 people and injured 253 two years ago – [...]

The former employees of the Alicoop group who have been hounded for years due to debts that they say are no longer their responsibility have formed an association to “defend their rights” and [...]

Insurance salesman Herculano Soldador is living a motorway tolls nightmare. Somehow, he overlooked 64 occasions where he passed through a toll without paying for it. The €400 cost has since [...]