Tourist seriously injured in fall at Peneda-Gerês National Park
A 30-year-old woman was transported to the hospital in Chaves.
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Montalegre
Vila Real, Portugal
Latest news and stories from Montalegre.
Vila Real, Portugal
Latest news and stories from Montalegre.
A 30-year-old woman was transported to the hospital in Chaves.
Elected officials from the PS were arrested in October 2022 by the Judiciary Police as part of Operation Alquimia.
Orlando Alves's defence team requested the termination of the coercive measures from the court this Friday.
Former Montalegre mayor Orlando Alves declined to provide statements today during this phase of the Operation Alquimia trial, which began this morning in Murça and involves former vice-mayor David Teixeira and 57 other defendants.
The Public Prosecutor's Office charges the former mayor with over 300 crimes, including criminal association, malfeasance, economic participation in business, money laundering, document forgery, and subsidy fraud.
Elected officials from the PS were arrested in October 2022 by the Judiciary Police as part of Operation Alchemy.
The Public Prosecutor's Office charges the former mayor with over 300 crimes, including malfeasance, economic participation in business, money laundering, and subsidy fraud.
The former mayors of Montalegre are suspected of favouring friends and family members in hundreds of public tenders, the systematic use of direct awards, and the artificial splitting of contracts.
Three days, a stone oven, and decades of knowledge passed between hands. The tradition of the Transmontano folar resists — and rejuvenates — every Easter in a village in Montalegre.
A 77-year-old man carried out an unlicensed burning of brush piles that ended up getting out of control.
EDP opens an outdoor laboratory at the reservoir with the most extreme weather conditions for companies to test new technologies for floating photovoltaic production.
On top of the Barroso mountain range, the super-wind turbines of Alto Tâmega are being assembled. To get there, an innovative vehicle is required for a journey that is short in distance but long in time.
In Montalegre, there is an open laboratory, unique in Europe, for researching solar energy on floating panels. It was created by EDP. American and Norwegian companies are already testing the technology.
Depression Kristin will pass over Portugal in the early hours, with the greatest impact between 03:00 and 06:00, accompanied by very strong winds.
Schools closed at 13:00 due to forecasts of snowfall and adverse weather conditions.
Several roads are closed, but clearing is underway.
Schools are closed as a precaution, and Civil Protection also helped to ensure, in some villages, the delivery of meals to clients of private social solidarity institutions.
Roads remain passable in the municipality, but, as is happening across much of the country, schools remain closed, CNN Portugal reporter Ana Borges Pinto reports.
The Vila Real district will be under a red warning due to snowfall from the early hours of Friday.
The Portuguese Environment Agency (APA) has issued a favourable opinion on the Borralha mine project in Montalegre, conditional on the submission of further studies and supporting information and on compliance with monitoring measures and programmes, as well as a number of other conditions.
From 22 to 25 January, Montalegre, in Trás-os-Montes, becomes the 'Queen of Smoked Meats'. Alongside the town's famous annual fair, the Cozido à Barrosã — a traditional Barrosã stew — is the star of local restaurant menus. The celebrations at the table continue until Carnival.
A former president and vice-president are suspected of operating a scheme between 2014 and 2022 in which they favoured friends and family in hundreds of public tenders.
For more than 30 years she has been producing smoked meats in Aldeia Nova do Barroso, in Montalegre. Joaquina Costa spends much of her time in the kitchen, a kitchen typical of Trás-os-Montes, and is helped by her husband, who looks after the animals.
Eleven districts of mainland Portugal are under an orange warning this Sunday due to snowfall and rough sea conditions.
