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.
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.
More than 400 people have gone to the Hospital da Horta with gastroenteritis since 1 July, roughly four times last year. The health authority has opened an investigation and is testing the water as a precaution, though it says there is no evidence the network is to blame. What we know, and the advic
Azores Airlines is reinforcing its summer schedule between Lisbon and the central-group islands of Faial and Pico, adding flights to Pico on 8 and 29 August and to Horta on 15 August and 5 September to meet peak-season demand.
The long-running question of what decades of military fuel storage have left in the ground around the Lajes Air Base has returned to Portugal's Parliament. Chega, the third-largest party in the Assembleia da República (Assembly of the Republic), has...
Austrian Airlines launched a weekly Vienna–Ponta Delgada flight on 30 June, running Tuesdays until 8 September. It becomes the Lufthansa Group's fourth carrier at Sao Miguel, in a record Azores summer with 16 airlines and direct links to 12 countries.
Azorean farmers were excluded from a national package easing rising production costs, a roughly €2.2 million gap that has prompted the regional government to demand inclusion and the agriculture minister to signal an amendment.
