New Loulé council launches hospital, housing and school projects in first 100 days
One hundred days into its current mandate, Loulé’s new municipal administration has hailed its own achievements on several projects relating to health, housing, education, and local services. After months of
News Review: Crisis, calamity & clean-up
On The Resident Podcast this morning, host Carl Munson and journalist Natasha Donn took listeners through the continuing and calamitous challenges to daily life in Portugal – what happens next,
Repair, don’t replace: Algarve event aims to cut waste
Do you have a broken toaster, torn jeans or a wobbly bike? Instead of throwing them away, Algarve residents are being invited to fix them. Repair Café Algarve will return
Government removes teachers from children with cancer
The government has effectively stopped young children with cancer being able to continue with their studies, writes Correio da Manhã today. Two hospitals – Coimbra Pediatric Hospital and Porto’s São
Epstein considered becoming “non-habitual resident of Portugal”
Among so much else in the Epstein files, it transpires that the disgraced sexual predator actually pondered moving to Portugal (albeit he seems to have thought this might have been
Hundreds of puffins washing up on Portuguese beaches
Portugal’s Bird Study Society (SPEA) has recorded over 400 puffins found dead along the Portuguese coast in recent days. The tally comes from monitoring by multiple organisations and volunteers, and
Number of households without electricity increases to 45,000
The number of households without electricity (and, as a usual consequence, water) this morning has risen to 45,000. Only yesterday, at the same time, supply network E-REDES announced it had
€12.5 million expansion begins at Lagos Marina
Lagos Marina has launched a €12.5 million expansion project including 102 new berths for vessels between 10 and 30 metres. Construction began last week, with the first phase expected to
Stronger together: cooperation in action
From time to time, we hear the suggestion that local associations do not work together. The reality could not be more different. In animal welfare — and especially in times
Coimbra holds off further evacuations “for now”
With all eyes on Coimbra today – braced as the city is for a ‘hundred-year flood’, the situation overnight was ‘stable’ – and for the time being at least authorities