The country’s first training and education centre for adaptive and inclusive sailing, one of just a handful in the world, will open at Portimão Marina in November and should be fully up and running ...

Almost four tonnes of cocaine have been seized and three men arrested after the GNR intercepted a suspected drug transfer at sea near the mouth of the River Mira, in the early hours of Thursday, 8 ...

Between 20 February and 29 April 2024, the court found, he activated 37 SIM cards on his phone, which were used to create the fake WhatsApp accounts that he used to steal strangers’ identities in the ...

Police authorities have released a statement this week detailing the arrest of a 31-year-old man in Faro on Saturday, 3 October, on suspicion of threatening restaurant workers with a bladed weapon and ...

Fellow Portuguese writer Gonçalo M. Tavares also features among the favourites. Tavares, whose O Fim dos Estados Unidos da América (literally, The End of the United States of America) came out last ...

Jet cabin crew across Portugal have begun a five-day strike, with the airline operating a reduced schedule limited to minimum services and flights operated by crews from other European bases. The ...

Every day, shepherd André Gonçalves leads his flock of sheep and goats across hundreds of hectares of the Amendoeira Golf Resort in Silves, in the Algarve, giving the courses a rural trim under the ...

A 61-year-old doctor was arrested on Tuesday, 6 October, on suspicion of raping a 52-year-old female patient during a consultation in Albufeira. Police say the alleged assault happened during a ...

Despite thousands of kilometres of the churning Atlantic separating them from their home, the Brazilian community of the Algarve and Lower Alentejo were not stopped from voting this past Sunday, 4 ...

Portugal’s Chega party says it is drawing up a new railway plan for the Algarve, proposing changes to the route, journey times and connections to main population centres, also including Faro Airport, ...

A 64-year-old German woman died on Saturday afternoon, 3 October, after falling from a clifftop blowhole of about 20 metres while walking between Tonel and Beliche beaches in Sagres, in the ...

Two men, aged 19 and 26, have been arrested by the GNR in Silves on suspicion of fraud, after allegedly collecting a series of strangers’ parcels from CTT, Portugal's postal service, the force said in ...