Heavy rains once again pounded parts of Brazil's southernmost state on Thursday, ruining days-long clean-up efforts and ...

On April 31, 300 mm of rain fell in the mountains of Northern Rio Grande do Sul, causing dam breaks, landslides and ...

Urban trains in Porto Alegre resumed operations this week, albeit on shortened routes, as the capital city of the Brazilian ...

Brazil’s civil aviation regulator has granted authorisation for a Porto Alegre military air base to handle commercial flights ...

Porto Alegre, the capital of Brazil’s southernmost state, has had to adapt after the metropolitan area of roughly 4.5 million ...

On a blazing hot Saturday afternoon in July 2017, just a few hours after the Cub Scout Resident Camp at Rancho Alegre had let ...

The receding waters of the Guaíba river in Porto Alegre’s historic downtown area have begun to unveil the extent of the ...

“It’s heartbreaking.” The picture is a little different in Porto Alegre, the state capital of Rio Grande do Sul. It oozes a rich colonial history in its grand architecture and a sense of ...

Porto Alegre, the Brazilian metropolis left submerged after torrential rains, had been lulled into a "false sense" of security by a vast but aging system of flood defenses, an urban drainage ...

Sunny with a high of 81 °F (27.2 °C). Winds from NNW to NW at 5 to 7 mph (8 to 11.3 kph). Night - Mostly cloudy with a 62% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 5 to 9 mph (8 to 14.5 kph ...

The Salgado Filho International Airport in Porto Alegre will resume operations in the second half of December after being closed due to the floods in early May ...

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, May 23 (Reuters) - Heavy rains once again pounded parts of Brazil's southernmost state on Thursday, ruining days-long clean-up efforts and flooding areas which had previously ...