The Portuguese Nurses’ Union (SEP) has sharply criticised the Health Minister following her visit to Portimão Hospital yesterday, Monday 18 November, accusing her of ignoring a shortfall of 2,000 ...

Christian Brueckner, the man who police investigators suspect of abducting three-year-old Madeleine McCann in Praia da Luz, Lagos, back in 2007, has been found by reporters living in a tent in remote ...

After Guarda (5,852 elderly people) and Vila Real (5,167), the districts where the most elderly people were identified were Bragança (4,191), Faro (3,414), Viseu (3,304), Beja (2,749), Évora (2,381) ...

The Algarve is a hiker's paradise. In winter, you can enjoy the Rota Vicentina , the cliffs near Lagos, or the hidden valleys of Monchique without the crowds. Fresh air, breathtaking views, and the ...

The Algarve 41 Club celebrated its 40 th Birthday across three fun filled days in October, with a celebratory evening dinner, a bowling competition and dancing to live music.

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 ...

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 ...