Rains in early February make month “rainiest in 47 years”
The first 15 days of February have already made this month the rainiest in the last 47 years, IPMA, Portugal’s national meteorological institute (IPMA) has revealed – adding that the
Airlines TAP and SATA have to return ‘millions of euros’ in state support
Portuguese airlines TAP and SATA have to return millions of euros in state support, due to ‘failing commitments made with Brussels’. The money goes back to 2021 when Brussels ceded
Portugal’s state health service loses just over €1 billion in 2025
Portugal’s beleaguered SNS state health service balance stood at -€1.035 billion in 2025 – an improvement of €533.9 billion compared to the same period last year, the health minister announced
U.S. military build-up at Azores air base? “Nothing government can do”, admits minister
With an impressive build-up of United States military planes at Portugal’s Lajes air base in the Azores, minister of foreign affairs Paulo Rangel has responded to the alarm raised by
Prisoners to clear scrubland ahead of wildfires – draft bill
A new bill guiding criminal policy for 2025-2027 seeks to use prisoners to help clear scrubland and similar ahead of summer wildfires. The bill, approved in the Council of Ministers
Government spends €11,500 on make-up and hair
Following on from the ‘expensive purchase’ of eight points of access to Sport TV for government departments (later reduced to just two), comes another ‘costly surprise’ from a government ostensibly
Skeleton found in bed after two years in which ‘services failed’
The sad story of Maria Fernanda Silva, aged 73, is being told today as statistics portal Pordata points to over 43,000 elderly people living ‘on their own’, or otherwise at
Former PJ director turned minister sets record straight over investigations involving PM
Luís Neves, Portugal’s new minister of internal administration, set the record straight this morning about a perceived conflict of interest implied by his former post as head of the PJ
Portuguese in Mexico put on security alert
Portuguese nationals in Mexico – particularly the cities of Jalisco, Nayarit, Guanajuato, Colima, Michoacán, and Tamaulipas – are being warned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs against “unnecessary travel”, due
Water released from Portuguese dams “equivalent to half century of human consumption”
With 5,000 households still surviving without electricity as a result of recent storms that battered large swathes of the country, SIC Notícias brings the news that the water ‘discharged’ from