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Reforçar a capacidade de resposta do Corpo de Bombeiros, para que este possa satisfazer o crescimento das necessidades públicas e operacionalizar as competências de que a Associação Humanitária dos B...

Foi ontem aprovado em reunião de câmara o Projeto de Regulamento de Apoio à Atividade Cultural. Esta proposta prevê o alargamento do âmbito dos apoios regulares já anteriormente concedidos ao associa...

Localizada na Rotunda de São João, esta marcante obra da cidade de Lagos que representa os Descobrimentos Portugueses foi alvo de obras de reabilitação, incluindo um sistema de abastecimento mais sus...

O município de Lagos e o município de Niágara Falls, no Canadá, assinaram no passado dia 17 de dezembro, um acordo de amizade, tendo em vista o estreitamento de relações de amizade e cooperação entre...

Como consequência da transferência de competências para as autarquias locais, nos domínios da gestão das praias marítimas, fluviais e lacustres e das áreas portuário-marítimas e áreas urbanas de dese...

Melhorar as condições de comunicação entre edifícios e serviços municipais, disponibilizar acesso público, gratuito e universal, à internet e criar as condições para a subsequente instalação de um si...

Our office is closed for holidays from December 19th, reopening on January 6th 2025.

The Via do Infante (A22), the Algarve's main motorway, will no longer have tolls from 1st January 2025, after 13 years of public protest since the road became a toll road in 2011.

The new Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles Garden was officially opened this Saturday, December 14th, a large green and leisure space located in the heart of Portimão, which, according to the local authority, “promises to become a reference for socializing and well-being in the city”.

It is perhaps no coincidence that the importance of Portugal’s participation in the European Union has been emphasised in Lisbon this week by President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. 

A woman died on Saturday following a home birth, after being transported to Portimão Hospital. Police later found the baby, lifeless, in a room of the house where the woman lived with her husband and two daughters.

Firefighters’ union calls national strike on January 15 Portugal Resident Strike is “response to government’s unwilligness” to negotiate pay rises requested Portugal’s National Union of Sapper Firefighters (SNBS) will hold a national strike on January 15 and has called for a demonstration near parliament, its president, Ricardo Cunha, announced on Friday. Speaking to Lusa, he […]

Two arrested in major police operation in Lisbon immigrant neighbourhood Portugal Resident Local politician furious about operation: “What happened yesterday is typical of an Islamic or Latin American dictatorship” Two people were detained by PSP police in an operation in Martim Moniz, Lisbon, which resulted in the seizure of almost €4,000 in cash, sticks, documents, […]

Aldi opens new supermarket in Parchal Portugal Resident This is Aldi’s 22nd store in Algarve German supermarket chain Aldi has opened a new two-storey store in Parchal, Lagoa, its 22nd in the Algarve. Located on Rua Infante de Sagres, in Parchal’s new bustling commercial area, the supermarket boasts a 1,100sqm sales area, offering the usual […]

The “real Portugal” exists Portugal Resident “It’s like Christmas every day,” one new resident explained, enjoying a glass of wine as we sat overlooking the river in Sertã, a town in Central Portugal that is undergoing a revival in tourism and property investment. This feeling is echoed by an American couple, Bob and Jenn, who […]

Off Grid and Ignorant in Portugal: The big plan for a second life … and why it’s all about wine Portugal Resident We started the Google search with escarradeira, then moved on to cuspideira and then we started calling people. A few hours and many phone calls later, we realised we weren’t going to be […]