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The terminal frontage of Ponta Delgada airport in the Azores, with the ANA sign reading Aeroporto Ponta Delgada Joao Paulo II above the glass front and cars in the forecourt.

Five Months After Ryanair Left the Azores, Chega Demands the Full Ledger of What Eleven Years Cost the Region

A requerimento asks for every euro paid to the airline or its group from 2015 to 2026, including the 1.885 million euro Visit Azores promotion contract signed in March 2025, months before Ryanair announced it was leaving.

The Portugal Brief 29 Aug 2026

Yachts moored at the marina of Angra do Heroísmo on Terceira in the Azores, with the wooded slope of Monte Brasil and the town's white buildings behind under an overcast sky.

An Azorean Held by US Immigration for Almost a Month Is Refusing Food, and Lisbon Cannot Give His Family a Date

Hugo Freitas de Sousa, 39, was stopped re-entering the United States from Canada on an ESTA after a family wedding on Terceira. He has been at an ICE facility in Tacoma for nearly a month and on hunger strike for four days.

The Portugal Brief 27 Aug 2026

The three floodlit basalt arches of the Portas da Cidade in Ponta Delgada, Sao Miguel, at dusk, with the harbour and a statue framed through the central archway.

Laboratory Tests Finally Name the Azores Gastroenteritis Outbreak: Norovirus Is Confirmed on São Miguel, With Pico Counting Cases Too

The regional health authority has identified norovirus in samples from São Miguel, eight days after we reported the Faial outbreak with its cause still unconfirmed. No evidence links the cases to the public water supply, and there have been no serious hospitalisations.

The Portugal Brief 27 Aug 2026

The Aerogare das Lajes terminal on Terceira in the Azores, a white building with a curved blue roof, seen across its car park with the airfield behind it under a cloudy sky.

Terceira Wins Its First New York Nonstop, and United Will Fly It Three Times a Week From June 2027

United Airlines said on Tuesday it will fly Newark to Terceira three times a week from 9 June 2027 on a Boeing 737 MAX 8. It is the first nonstop between the island and the New York area, and the first to Terceira by a United States carrier.

The Portugal Brief 25 Aug 2026

Fishing boats moored inside the harbour wall at Rabo de Peixe, Ribeira Grande, on the north coast of Sao Miguel in the Azores

Three of the Eight Held in the Rabo de Peixe Drug Raid Go to Pre-Trial Detention, Days After Residents Stoned Four Police Vans

Eight people aged 18 to 36 were detained on Thursday in the Sao Miguel fishing parish, with 2,022 doses of cocaine, 5,355 of hashish and 18,490.95 euros seized. As the PSP withdrew, residents threw stones and timber at four vans and officers fired six warning shots.

The Portugal Brief 23 Aug 2026

An aerial view of the port of Horta on Faial in the Azores, with an Atlanticoline inter-island ferry moored alongside the breakwater quay

A Technical Fault Takes the Gilberto Mariano Out of Service and Reshuffles Azores Inter-Island Sailings

Atlanticoline found the fault during routine maintenance checks and will change departure times and reassign other ships to cover. The vessel works the central group in high season, plus the Flores and Corvo link. No repair timeline has been given.

The Portugal Brief 23 Aug 2026

An aerial view of Vila Franca do Campo on Sao Miguel in the Azores, its white houses and red roofs spread along the coast with the islet offshore

The Azores Write the Rules for Machado-Joseph Support, a Year After the Ombudsman Said the Gap Was Blocking Access

Thursday's Conselho do Governo approved regulation covering mobility and comfort equipment, a home carer and a companion subsidy. The archipelago has the world's highest prevalence of the disease, concentrated on Flores and Sao Miguel.

The Portugal Brief 22 Aug 2026

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