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Low river levels in Castelo Branco have delivered up a much-loved shrine, stolen over 20 years ago. Before the heavens opened up and down the country this weekend – causing all kinds of [...]

Former Lisbon mayor Carmona Rodrigues is ready to present a new solution to the never-ending problem of where to site Lisbon’s second airport. According to reports, the civil engineer with a [...]

“Magnificent news”. This is the way President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has welcomed the fact that leaders of Europe’s 27 Member States have all given their backing to the revised Withdrawal [...]

Portuguese computer geek Hugo Veiga has devised a form of open source software to stop machines destroying the Amazon rainforest – and indeed any other protected area on the planet. The [...]

The race to win lucrative contracts for the exploration of lithium may have bizarrely played into protestors hands, at least in the municipality of Montalegre. Former associates at Lusorecursos [...]

Portugal’s PS Socialist party has been returned to power – albeit without the absolute majority they craved – in one of the lowest election turn-outs since the implantation of [...]

13,000 teachers took to the streets of Lisbon yesterday – the day before national elections – to highlight the need for ‘democracy’. As union leader Mário Nogueira explained, [...]

As Portugal goes to the polls, media outlets and politicians themselves have been exhorting all those with voting rights to ‘go out and exercise them’. With ruling Socialists set to be returned, [...]

Six years after it was closed to save money, the emergency psychiatric service in Portimão State Hospital has been resurrected. Doors opened last Tuesday, with hospital sources stressing the [...]

A new period for public consultation opened today on the ‘soft rural tourism’ project proposed for Quinta da Rocha – the environmentally-protected estate overlooking Alvor estuary sold 13 [...]