The pilot of an Everjets helicopter on fire fighting duties in Cabril, Viseu, died on Sunday just before midday.
The helicopter hit some high voltage cables, span out of control and crashed to the ground, bursting into flames with the pilot trapped inside, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The law criminalising the ill-treatment and abandonment of companion animals in Portugal has contributed to a sharp increase in cases of neglect.
This mainly has been due to “a lack of information and awareness among owners,” according to the head of the nation’s association of vets.
A new pier for Tavira island and sand dredging to deepen access channels is to cost €2.5 million, according to a protocol between Polis Litoral Ria Formosa Company, Tavira Council and State-owned, Docapesca.
The public protocol for technical and financial cooperation for the construction of the infrastructure has been signed off by the Minister of the Environment, João Matos Fernandes, and the Minister of the Sea, Ana Paula Vitorino.
Discerning foreigners have been moving to the south and the north with the districts of Faro and Oporto showing the biggest increase in registrations between 2015 and 2016.
The districts of Faro, covering the Algarve, increased its registered foreign intake by 9% in a year, with the north in second place with a 5% boost.
Legendary TV presenter Sir Bruce Forsyth has died, aged 89.
Forsyth's career aged 14 and spanned more than 75 years, at times Britain's highest-paid TV star after hosting a stable of game shows including The Generation Game, Play Your Cards Right and The Price is Right.
Fish, concentrated in what is left of the water in several of the Alentejo’s reservoirs, are making the water undrinkable.
At least 150,000 kilos of fish, mostly carp, are now being captured in operations at Vigia, Monte da Rocha, Pego do Alter and Divor reservoirs in the Alentejo.
The so-called ‘Galpgate’ inquiry is steaming ahead with two new official defendants named today: the Galp president and a former secretary of state, no less.
Galp’s chief, Carlos Gomes da Silva and Carlos Costa Pina are the seventh and eighth defendants in the investigation into the freebies dished out to politicians and high-up State employees by Galp to watch the Portuguese national team play in euro2016 football matches.
Portugal’s President has been in contact with Spain’s King felip VI to condemn “with vehemence, the terrorist act," that left 13 people dead after a van was driven through crowds of shoppers in Barcelona on Thursday.
President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa also expressed support today for the family of a Portuguese woman died when the van deliberately was driven into members of the public ambling along Las Ramblas, possibly Barcelona’s most popular tourist street.
