The Algarve Local Health Unit (ULSALG) began the year 2025 by welcoming 202 intern doctors, who chose the Algarve health units to carry out their medical internship in various areas of medicine.
The Coastal and Border Control Unit (UCCF) and the Faro GNR Territorial Command, seized 93.6 kilos of hashish as part of intensive patrols along the Algarve coast during the last two days.
The Lagoa Municipal Assembly have approved the largest budget in the municipality's history, for 2025, totalling more than 66 million euros, with Education, Culture, Social Action and Sports as its priority areas for improvement.
Statistics in certain sectors in Portugal have risen over the festive period, according to various reports by the Lusa national news agency.
Turistrela, the concessionaire of the Serra da Estrela ski resort, is developing a project that promises to take skiing to other regions of Portugal.
People suffering from the respiratory virus HMPV are filling hospitals, setting off alarm bells for the World Health Organization.
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”.
