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- Porto's metro is going to Trofa, but you'll switch to a bus at Muro
- 24-year-old volunteer firefighter dies fighting Resende wildfire
- This is the busiest September for flu at Portugal's health centres in ten years
- Portugal's firefighting force drops by 2,283 people on 1 October, eleven days after a Coimbra fire needed 806
- Vila Viçosa's UNESCO answer now waits for Istanbul, 2027
- Portugal is the biggest recipient in the EU's €489m storm package
- Furnas drops back to V0, leaving three Azores volcanic systems on alert
- Portugal sat out Europe's record summer (its August was the fifth wettest since 1931)
- Is selling pressed bay leaf as hashish a crime in Portugal? Not yet
- Who gets a free flu jab in Portugal this winter? The list just gained three years
- Portugal's bottle-deposit petition has nearly five times the names it needs (and it is still in committee)
- The world's biggest vision prize is Portuguese, and this year it went to the pair who gave a blind patient some sight back
- Three men have handed themselves in over the Rua Augusta shooting that wounded a Swedish tourist
- Saudi Arabia stopped the Salalah talks on the Strait of Hormuz
- The Portuguese with no schooling get their blood pressure checked most and colonoscopies least
- Outdoors in Lisbon or the Algarve today? North African dust is in the air until Tuesday
- Houthis take Perim as 6,000 seafarers stay stuck in the Gulf
- Landing in Lisbon after 15 October? Your taxi into town is 16 or 19 euros
- Eleven Portuguese regions struggle to keep doctors, and the medical council's fix starts with income tax
- Portugal's school-safety operation restarted today. Last year it logged 2,631 crimes on school grounds
- Flying from Porto or Faro is set to rise five times faster than Lisbon in 2027
- Western Europe just had its hottest summer on record (and Portugal is not on the list)
- Four Azorean volcanic systems are sitting at alert level V1. Furnas joined them on Tuesday
- When does flu vaccination open in Portugal this autumn? The rule that sets the date is still not out
- Portugal's metro was the only way of getting around that lost passengers last quarter
- Portuguese 15-year-olds post their worst-ever PISA reading result
- €11.2m to stop the Bravura's water disappearing before it reaches the fields
- Nine shopping trolleys are now seahorse housing on the floor of the Tagus
- A court has shut a quarry in Tavira, and every extra day of digging costs €2,000
- Flying this winter? Ryanair says it will put fewer aircraft in the air
- Évora's eastern bypass is finally open (and the 40% traffic cut is still only a forecast)
- 26 Portuguese municipalities hit top fire risk on Sunday, with the heat alerts already lifted
- Portugal summons Russia's ambassador over the failed drone attack on Leipzig airport
- Portugal offered 207,086 teenagers a €30 book voucher. About one in five spent it
- Lisbon's Glória funicular will be rebuilt from scratch, and it will not carry anyone before 2029
- The 351,000 public workers behind Portugal's 2 October strike are not teachers or nurses
- Portugal's rules give a fertility clinic six months to wind down. Ovom Care in Cascais took a day
- The state owes Portugal's polytechnics 38 million euros, and hiring has already stalled
- Portugal plans to double its energy storage by 2030. There are 20 days to say something
- Final report on the Glória funicular crash slips to 2027
- The 2026/27 school calendar is signed off (and 19 of its 36 days off land at Christmas)
- Portugal goes into its storm season with the warmest ocean ever measured
- Norway's King Harald V dies at 89 after 35 years on the throne
- What happened to hospital teleconsultations after the pandemic? We added up six years of SNS data
- Portugal's storm recovery fund reached €80m. Five councils share the €3.5m that was added
- Pharmacies will be paid €3.15 a jab this winter, and nobody has published who qualifies yet
- Three northern fires burnt 5,200 hectares. One Arouca firefighter is still in intensive care
- Twelve injured in Albufeira after a car drives into the crowd on the Oura strip
- 96% of the Moon slides into Earth's shadow before dawn on Friday, and Portugal is well placed to watch
- Thunderstorms put 14 Portuguese districts under a yellow warning (with hail and 90km/h gusts)
- Europe's summer heat has been linked to 32,000 excess deaths. More than 600 were in Portugal
- Portugal has mapped 800-plus places for solar and wind (and half its councils are not on the list)
- Portugal's 20-euro rail pass reaches Lisbon and Porto commuter trains in the third week of September
- Portugal's competition watchdog wants CP's trains and drivers open to whoever wins the Cascais line
- Viseu is making its buses free from September. The pass itself costs €5
- Where is Portugal's secondary exam data? Not on the exam board's own statistics page
- Portugal registered 4,271 weddings in June, 333 more than a year earlier
- Portugal's 63-item shopping basket now costs 253.55 euros, up 11.73 since January
- Portugal's burnt area is a quarter of last year's. The number of fires went up
- Three fires in the north held 968 crew on Tuesday, and none was contained by nightfall
- Drink-drive checks step up across Portugal from today until 24 August
- Vinhais fire brought under control after 24 hours, with five firefighters hurt
- Magnitude 7.7 earthquake off Flores kills at least 51 in Indonesia
- Portugal's €20 rail pass is being extended to Lisbon and Porto commuter trains
- Myanmar says 300,000 Rohingya are cleared to return. Bangladesh is hosting almost four times that
- Turkey's parliament passed a conditional pardon for thousands of PKK fighters (and none of it starts until they disarm)
- Eight dead in Chiba after Japan's heaviest recorded day of rain there since 1966
- Half the EU spent July in drought, and this year has already burned past last year
- Portugal's second-phase exam averages rose in 16 of 24 subjects, but the national dataset is still not online
- Suspect in the Rua Augusta shooting released under fortnightly police check-ins
- Portugal has just had its driest July of the century
- Beaches shut across San Sebastián after 120 stings in one day. The animal is named after Portugal
- Colombia's strongest earthquake this century has killed at least 132 people
- Damascus court sentences Bashar al-Assad to death for crimes against humanity
- A magnitude 3.5 earthquake woke part of the Alentejo at 3.08am
- The heat holds through Wednesday in four inland districts, and so does the fire danger
- Washington has sanctioned a Portuguese firm over helicopter parts bound for Iran
- Tehran wants the blockade lifted, the fleet gone and the war paid for before Hormuz reopens
- Wildfire above Lake Garda forces about 200 people out of homes and hotels
- Spain reimposes passport checks on travellers arriving from Italy
- A 14-year-old killed his grandparents, then opened fire at his school near Bangkok
- Portugal's universities just logged their busiest application round in three decades
- Ebola in Ituri is doubling in some places. 1,801 people have died so far
- Maritime Police identify the man who photographed bathers at Monte Clérigo
- Seven held and 940 kilos of copper seized after an 18-month GNR investigation
- Portugal has no guidance telling citizens what to do in a crisis (the last one dates from the 1960s)
- UNICEF counts 300 children killed in Gaza in the 300 days since the ceasefire
- 265 people have died on Portugal's roads this year, 36 more than at the same point in 2025
- Five tonnes of cocaine seized from a container ship brought into Sines
- Portugal's basic schools go back on schedule between 11 and 15 September
- 700 buildings gone, 65,000 people out: the Spokane fires are among Washington's worst
- Ferry fire off Indonesia's Madura island kills five, with 41 still missing
- From Saturday, rescuing animals is officially part of Portugal's civil protection
- Madeira now has its own bill of rights for older people
- Viana do Castelo's Eiffel bridge goes out to tender for a €7.5m reinforcement
- Portugal's first privately run state health centre opens today in Torres Vedras
- The Algarve now has daily sea and land patrols, and Ceuta is the reason why
- A sightseeing flight over the Nazca Lines crashed and all 13 people on board died
- Wild boar and deer now cause over a thousand road crashes a year in Portugal
- Moscow woke up to an explosion in a restaurant — three dead and 21 injured
- Two tonnes of cocaine washed up on the Comporta coast, and nobody has been arrested
- Portugal has one of the EU's biggest shares of people working 49-hour weeks
- A 4.7 quake shook Naples and the Campi Flegrei — the strongest there in 40 years
- Portugal's burnt area in 2026 has passed 30,000 hectares — the third worst since 2016
- INEM changes its rulebook on August 1, and Portugal's emergency service gets a four-seat board
- A TAP flight to Bissau lost an engine and had to turn back to Lisbon
- Oil companies in Portugal face a windfall levy on 2026 profits, measured against the last two years
- Cais do Sodré metro station shuts from 8 to 26 August, with the Green Line stopping at Baixa-Chiado
- Police seized 61 kilos of cocaine at Lisbon airport, and the two suspects had flown in from Porto
- The Valpaços wildfire has crossed into Mirandela and hundreds of crews are still fighting it
- Iran fired missiles at American forces, the US shot them down, and oil jumped 4 per cent
- Japan's 7.1 quake brought down a shopping mall in Kumamoto, and the aftershocks keep coming
- Uganda is handing out emergency food in Karamoja after 19 people died of hunger
- The Gironde fire has forced 220,000 people out and it's now heading for Bordeaux
- Barack Obama is coming to Lisbon on 10 October, and tickets run from €39 to €250
- Nearly all of mainland Portugal sits under a yellow heat warning on Tuesday, with 40C in the forecast
- Iran turned down the American offer in Islamabad, and the Strait of Hormuz stays shut
- Ukraine struck an Iranian ship in the Caspian Sea, and Tehran has already summoned Kyiv's diplomats
- The US skipped a night of strikes on Iran, and now it all comes down to Hormuz
- Origin Energy was breached and customers' partial bank details went with it
- Starship finally flew, and this time the Starlink satellites were real
- Ávila's wildfires just pulled 128 Portuguese firefighters across the border
- Kyiv's drone expo was hit by a Russian missile, and Moscow says it aimed for it
- The new US forced-labour tariffs are live, and Europe is paying 10%
- The US and Iran are 13 nights into this — and oil just topped $100
- Portugal sent France two water-bombers to fight its wildfires — and Macron thanked the country by name
- Portugal just sent Brussels the final reshuffle of its recovery fund — a sprint to not hand a single euro back
- Portugal's ERs head into summer with rosters unfinished — and the health service is saying so
- Wildfire danger jumps across dozens of municipalities as the heat tightens its grip on Portugal
- France is banning social media for under-15s — the first EU country to do it
- Portugal's heat is spiking again this Wednesday — the south could brush 39°C
- Yemen's Houthis have declared a naval blockade of Saudi Arabia — and oil markets went on alert
- Portugal's second-phase national exams start today — some students still don't know their first-phase marks
- Russia hit Kyiv with one of its biggest missile attacks of the war — Ukraine sent 400 drones back
- Chile declares a state of catastrophe as floods cut off nearly 100,000 people
- Venezuela's earthquakes have now killed 5,208 — and more than 120 were Portuguese or of Portuguese descent
- The US struck Iran's unfinished Darkhovin nuclear plant — and Tehran says the deal is dead
- Portugal's exam grades went out with errors — and schools were only told on Sunday
- Iran killed two US soldiers in Jordan — and Washington has already hit back
- Iran vows 'unforgettable lessons' as the Gulf's water supply becomes a target
- Portugal's new ride-hailing law lets taxis join the apps — and taxi drivers are furious
- Iran struck Kuwait and Bahrain after a seventh straight night of US bombing
- An ammonia leak in Matosinhos emptied a packed festival in the middle of the night
- Portugal's exam results are out, but some students got 'suspended' instead of a grade
- The US-Iran conflict just spread to Syria on day six — and the Strait of Hormuz is shut again
- The Porto Technical University is now law — and Portugal's biggest polytechnic is on its way out
- Uganda discharged its last Ebola patient and started counting 42 days
- Portugal loses enough water to supply a third of the country — and Quercus has ten fixes
- Wildfire danger hits maximum in around 50 Portuguese councils this Friday — inland north to the Algarve
- America is one vote away from never changing the clocks again — Europe knows how hard that is
- Portugal's national exam results finally land on Friday — and the minister is asking teachers for help
- US strikes on Iran hit a fourth straight night — and Hormuz is the target
- Portugal is bringing its own satellites to NATO, and the Atlantic is the pitch
- Portugal's social partners are back at the table today, six weeks after the labour law fell
- Houthis strike Saudi Arabia, breaking a four-year truce
- Europe heatwave killed 10,650 more people than usual in June, new data shows
- TAP privatisation: Lufthansa and Air France-KLM face July 29 deadline
- Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani dies at 74: the emir who transformed Qatar
- Iran attacks US bases in Qatar, UAE, Bahrain and Kuwait: the widest retaliation yet
- Exam re-marking in Portugal: grades rise in 76% of cases, yet only 2% of students ask
- Typhoon Bavi hits China: more than a million people evacuated before landfall
- Lisbon-Évora Intercidades run with regional trains: CP admits rolling-stock shortage
- Vietnam boat accident: 15 tourists die as vessel capsizes off Phu Quoc
- GNR drug bust: 26 arrested and 13 remanded in custody in Aveiro and Porto
- Venezuela earthquakes: Portuguese and luso-descendant death toll rises to 107
- US strikes Iran again: 90 targets hit, including rail bridge on China corridor
- Fuel prices in Portugal rise Monday: diesel up seven cents, petrol up three
- Andalusia wildfire: at least 12 dead and 19 missing in the region's worst fire on record
- Portugal wildfires: state of alert extended into next week as heatwave holds
- Almada water crisis: alert declared, rotating rationing and emergency boreholes in a record heatwave
- Vouzela wildfire passes 10,000 hectares as 80+ Portuguese municipalities hit maximum fire risk
- Heat in Portugal: DGS confirms 125 excess deaths since mid-June
- IOC lifts Russia ban, clearing a path to Los Angeles 2028
- US strikes hit over 80 targets in Iran after Strait of Hormuz ship attacks
- Super Typhoon Bavi: Northern Mariana Islands assess damage from strongest storm on record
- Peneda-Gerês fire: blaze near Montalegre started at three separate points, burned around 200 hectares
- Iran ceasefire is "over", says Trump — and oil jumps more than 6%
- WHO Europe warns: extreme heat is now treated as a public-health emergency
- Agualva-Cacém: runaway bus kills two women at a stop near Sintra
- Portugal wildfires: 30,000 hectares burned in 2026, the worst in Europe
- Portugal population revised up to 11.4 million — and the retirement age may shift
- Portugal airports get 367 extra border police to cut summer queues
- Portugal heatwave nears its end: temperatures start falling today
- Almada water crisis: regulator demands answers as major pipe burst cuts six areas
- Extreme heat likely killed two sisters in a greenhouse in Póvoa de Varzim
- Kyiv hit by massive missile and drone attack: at least ten dead in residential buildings
- Venezuela earthquakes: Portuguese death toll rises to 95
- Lisbon's new airport: the decisive report lands this July
- Over 1.6 million without a family doctor: Portugal's health service enters summer under strain
- Vouzela wildfire forces Portugal to call in Spain and the EU
- Heat alert: Portugal heads into an oven of a weekend
- US Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship
- Wildfire season is here: Portugal goes on alert
- Fuel and groceries push prices up: Portugal's cost of living in 2026
- Beaches with warnings: where not to swim this summer
- Matosinhos lands an Alstom plant for rail maintenance
- Portugal returns to the UN Security Council
- 112 operators on strike: what changes when you call for help
- Venezuela earthquakes: dozens of Portuguese among the dead and missing
- Heat cranking up, fire lurking: the warning for this end of June
- Police warn of a summer wave of home burglaries
- Ukraine launches a large-scale overnight attack on Russia
- Venezuela earthquakes: Portugal's community in mourning and waiting for news
- The Strait of Hormuz breathes again: tankers return and the ceasefire holds
- Heat tightens and fire risk climbs: several districts under warning
- Iran strikes US bases in the Gulf and the ceasefire hangs by a thread
- Lousada firefighters turn 100 as government pledges more support
- Ship hit in the Strait of Hormuz halts Gulf evacuation
- Venezuela: death toll rises to 589 as the search goes on
- US opens the door to Iranian oil: dollars flowing for the first time in 40 years
- Heat builds, fire risk maxes out: what the IPMA warning means this weekend
- Portimão Hospital hits 100 robotic surgeries
- Tension in the Strait of Hormuz: US strikes Iran and reignites oil fears
- Venezuela earthquakes: Portuguese among the dead, thousands still unaccounted for
- Portugal ready to send emergency aid to Venezuela
- Venezuela: death toll passes 580 as the world rushes to help
- Sines could get passenger trains back, 36 years on
- Ebola outbreak spreads in eastern DR Congo: over a thousand cases in a month
- The world is side-eyeing the US, a new survey finds
- France logs its hottest day ever — and Europe is roasting
- Iran and the US disagree on the peace — and 11,000 sailors are stuck in Hormuz
- Niger walks out of the International Criminal Court
- Target list: intelligence services reportedly unaware of threats to Montenegro and Marcelo
- Iran and the US leave Switzerland with a 60-day roadmap
- Colombia swings right: De la Espriella wins by a whisker
- The 60-day clock: where the US–Iran truce stands
- Summer means it: a heat dome brings 40 °C and fire risk
- Lebanon ceasefire renewed — and Europe calling for "time for diplomacy"
- Peace on the horizon: US and Iran strike a deal, Hormuz set to reopen
- Lisbon hosts Capital Markets Day: two days talking investment
- The Azores get a direct flight to Toronto this summer
- Why the world is on edge — and you can feel it at the pump