Participants attend the Portuguese festa parade and bullfight at Our Lady of Fatima church on Oct. 19 in Thornton, Calif. The town is tiny enough that most drivers speeding along Interstate 5 in ...

FALL RIVER — It’s been two decades since a hilarious, off-beat show at Bristol Community College — which was mainly conceived for family and friends — turned out to be a surprise success and set ...

Beautiful Portugal is one of the oldest countries in Europe and had quite the empire at one point in history. Its borders have remained pretty much the same since 1297 – a claim that few countries ...

FALL RIVER – The Portuguese flag was raised at Government Center on June 10 as part of Fall River’s observance for the Day of Portugal. Due to the pandemic, the customary Day of Portugal celebration ...

A writer and researcher said better education about the impact of Portuguese people on Bermuda is needed. Sandra Rouja said the contribution of people of Portuguese heritage to Bermuda had been ...

Growing up in Portugal's capital Lisbon, Beatriz Gomes Dias says she couldn't identify with the people she saw on TV, in ads or in museums. Her parents were immigrants from Guinea-Bissau, a former ...

The streets of Mineola were filled with what felt like the entire village Saturday and for good reason: The state’s largest Portuguese parade was marching through. “Mineola is really the heart of the ...

From the whalers, fishermen, and mill workers who settled here in the 19th and early 20th centuries to the Azoreans who began arriving in large numbers in the 1960s, Portuguese people have played a ...

CHICO — Bem-vindo, a speaker of Portuguese would say to the newcomer. Welcome. For people of Portuguese ancestry, and really anyone interested in learning a tongue: welcome to the Portuguese language, ...

To the Portuguese people who attended Sunday's festa in Princeton, the annual celebration was a day of giving thanks, renewing faith and keeping alive old-country traditions that have survived for ...

THORNTON, Calif. — The town is tiny enough that most drivers speeding along Interstate 5 in California’s Central Valley miss it. But on a recent weekend, twinkling white lights stretched over Thornton ...