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A large tree fell on the crowd during the Nossa Senhora do Monte festival on Madeira.

BOSTON – A Bristol County Sheriff’s Deputy was convicted today by a federal jury in Boston of smuggling the profits of an over-fishing scheme to Portugal. Antonio Freitas, 47, of Taunton, a Sheriff’s Deputy with the Bristol County Sheriff’s Office and a long-time Task Force Officer with U...

If you have a grandparent that was born in Portugal, but you were born in the United States, you can now apply to officially become a Portuguese citizen. O Jornal is reporting that the Council of Ministers in Portugal voted in favor of the Portuguese Nationality Act, amending the Nationality Law to grant citizenship to those born outside of Portugal but have at least one grandparent that was a Por

BOSTON - The two surviving crewmembers injured in an explosion on a bulk-carrier 1,300 miles off of Cape Cod have been medevaced to Portugal. The U.S. Coast Guard in Boston says the crewmembers were airlifted from the bulk-carrier Tamar at 4:30 a...

BOSTON - An explosion on board an international bulk freighter headed for the Azores has killed two crew members. The explosion was reported at 7 .a.m. Monday on the carrier Tamar, about 1,300 miles off the coast of Cape Cod. The explosion initially killed one crewmember and severely burned three others...

Soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo has an airport named after him Wednesday during a ceremony in his hometown of Madeira Portugal.

Portuguese officials are reporting progress in the fight against the wildfires that swept through Madeira.

Three people have been killed and many more homes and buildings were destroyed after wildfires struck Madeira.

Thursday marked the beginning of the 102nd Feast of the Blessed Sacrament in New Bedford.

Viva Portugal!