The tornado, one of two which hit the Algarve over this past weekend, swept through the municipality of Albufeira on Saturday morning, causing one fatality of a person who had initially been reported ...

There has been a shake-up in the presidential race to Belém - despite the overall tightness of the contest, Luís Marques Mendes, of the governing centre-right Social Democratic Party (PSD) has climbed ...

The reopening restores some certainty to the world’s largest economy, but it also leaves a significant data gap. Many key reports that were scheduled during the shutdown were either delayed or ...

Every region has its showpiece holes. In the Algarve, Vale do Lobo’s 16th tends to get all the attention, and rightly so for its cliff-top drama. But the 7th at Quinta do Lago North captures something ...

The Portuguese Institute for Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA) placed the Algarve under a red weather warning until 3 p.m., due to forecasts of persistent, at times heavy, rainfall. Local downpours reached as ...

Around 400 religious artefacts, most of them made of solid gold or silver, that had been missing under strange circumstances for 16 years have been recovered and returned to the Archbishop of Évora.

Europe’s first large-scale sanctuary for elephants formerly kept in captivity is taking shape across the municipalities of Vila Viçosa and Alandroal, in southern Portugal’s Alentejo region. The ...

A 22-year-old man fell yesterday, Sunday 9 November, from a cliff at Praia da Marinha, in the Benagil caves area of Lagoa, and was rescued “showing signs of hypothermia, fractures and multiple ...

The city of Faro will once again light up its streets for the festive season from 21 November to 6 January 2026, with its traditional Christmas decorations, an investment worth €184,000, the local ...

On Monday (10 November), Chega leader André Ventura reacted to a complaint filed by Roma associations over posters reading “Roma people must obey the law”, which the associations demand be removed, ...

A GNR corporal from Mirandela, in the district of Bragança, was arrested by the Judiciary Police (PJ) on suspicion of defrauding the state of thousands of euros by keeping the cash from fines imposed ...

Overnight, the Lisbon Fire Brigade (Regimento de Sapadores Bombeiros) received around 50 emergency calls in just three hours, mostly due to flooding on public roads and private properties. Between ...