Algarve Daily News26 OctAlbufeira Bombeiros receive new €82,000 ambulance, hoping to improve emergency response times
Albufeira’s volunteer fire brigade has a new ambulance, an investment of around €82,000. The vehicle will bolster the emergency resources available to the local population, and to visitors to the municipality.
Algarve Daily News23 OctPresident Seguro calls parliamentarians to urgent meeting, following housing protests across Portugal’s major cities
President António José Seguro has called a meeting of the Council of State for the afternoon of Monday, 2 November, at Belém Palace, with social cohesion on the agenda. The summons was published on the Presidency’s website on Friday, 23 October.
Algarve Daily News23 OctBolt hits back at Lisbon scooter suspension: ‘Residents will lose a cheap, green way to get about’
Shared e-scooter operator Bolt said this Friday, 23 October, that pulling the scooters from Lisbon’s streets may leave residents with fewer affordable, sustainable ways to get around. Locals were responsible for 78% of trips carried out in 2025, it claims.
Algarve Daily News23 OctPortugal’s Environment Minister heads to Faro to sign off flood and waste deals
Environment and Energy Minister Maria da Graça Carvalho will travel to the Algarve on 30 October to sign off two agreements: One is meant to bolster flood prevention in Faro; the other will study alternatives for treating the region’s municipal waste. The signatories will include the Portuguese Environment Agency (APA)
Algarve Daily News23 OctSagres: GNR seizes assault rifles, nine vehicles, and 10,000 litres of fuel in nationwide drug busting operations
Portugal’s National Republican Guard (GNR) has arrested one man and seized two Kalashnikov assault rifles, nine vehicles, a boat fitted with two engines, and around 10,000 litres of fuel during a nationwide operation targeting maritime drug trafficking in Sagres, and the Guadiana River in the Algarve, and Esposende, in
Algarve Daily News22 OctPortugal approves law to free up thousands of ‘frozen’ homes locked in family disputes: ‘Single heir can force sale after two years of deadlock’
The Government has given the green light to a decree aimed at “ending blockages" in an important area: housing. Announcing the decision after Thursday’s Council of Ministers, on 22 October, Minister of the Presidency António Leitão Amaro said ministers had approved the decree-law “regulating, and seeking to end, the sc
Algarve Daily News22 OctPortuguese Government to give €5 million in hopes of carrying Iberian lynx’s conservation success story
The Iberian Lynx Conservation Action Plan (PACLIP 2026–2030) has been approved through an order published today in the Diário da República, Portugal’s official gazette. In a statement, the Ministry of Environment said the plan marks a new phase in conservation efforts, focusing on consolidating existing populations and
Algarve Daily News22 OctWest Nile virus found in bird along Algarve’s Guadiana river, putting border area on alert
The detection of West Nile virus in a bird at Costa Esuri, on the Spanish side of the Guadiana river, has led Andalusian authorities to place the area on alert, as well as raising concerns just a stone's throw away in the Algarve municipalities of Vila Real de Santo António and Castro Marim.
Algarve Daily News20 OctEnglish tourist, 34, left with traumatic brain injury after falling off cliffside ropes in Aljezur
A 34-year-old English man suffered a traumatic brain injury this Tuesday afternoon, 20 October, after falling around 10 metres (33ft) from a cliff near Praia do Amado, in the Algarve municipality of Aljezur.
Algarve Daily News20 OctLiquid gold? Resin tapping could help to revitalise Algarve’s pinewoods, bringing profits and cutting wildfires
More than 42,000 hectares of stone pine grow across the Algarve, much of it producing few pine cones, if any. Tapping these trees for resin may give owners a fresh source of income, with the idea taking centre stage earlier this month at a workshop in Marmelete, in the municipality of Monchique. It presented new resin-
Algarve Daily News19 OctHundreds take to streets of Faro in fight against exorbitant housing costs, as Portugal’s nationwide youth protests continue
Over 200 people gathered in Faro over the weekend to protest against sky-high property prices in the Algarve, and to demand solutions that would allow the region’s workers to be relieved of the crushing weight of high rent costs and unattainable house prices.
Algarve Daily News19 OctRonaldo handed 30-day ban and meagre €255 fine for walking out on Portugal team training
Cristiano Ronaldo has been suspended for 30 days and fined €255 for storming out of the national team’s training camp in Denmark at the end of last month. The Portuguese Football Federation’s (FPF) disciplinary council announced the punishment on Monday, 19 October, after examining the case against the Portugal captain
Algarve Daily News16 OctPorto housing protest shut down after being ‘beaten out of tents by police’ and threatened by ‘far-right infiltrators’
A housing protest that has occupied the heart of Porto for several nights was forced to stand down in the early hours of Friday, 16 October, with organisers pointing the finger at far-right infiltrators.
Algarve Daily News16 OctAlgarve TikToker arrested following alleged kidnap plot to abduct follower over €3,500 debt
A social media influencer from Portimão, known online as Mia, has been arrested by the Polícia Judiciária (PJ) on suspicion of commissioning the kidnapping of an online follower from Espinho, in the Aveiro district.
Algarve Daily News16 Oct‘Algarve is overdependent on cars, with patchy public transport that handicaps mobility in the region’, AMAL report finds
The Algarve has roughly 103,000 more insured light vehicles on its roads than it did nine years ago, according to a report issued alongside a new regional mobility plan presented in Faro this week. The number of insured cars and vans rose 36%, from 288,000 in 2016 to 391,000 in 2025.
Algarve Daily News15 Oct“Perverse incentive”: Environmentalists attack Foupana dam, warning that project will cut off Algarve’s last free-flowing stream to feed avocado farm demand
Quercus, the environmental NGO based in Lisbon, has come out firmly against the planned Foupana dam in the Algarve municipalities of Alcoutim and Castro Marim. The association argues that it would destroy the last large ecological corridor left untouched in the Sotavento (eastern Algarve), threaten protected species, a
Algarve Daily News15 OctMercadona opens its first Algarve supermarket in Portimão, with dozens queueing for inaugural entry
Mercadona opened its first Algarve supermarket this Thursday morning, 15 October, at the Nova Vila Retail Park in Portimão.
Algarve Daily News13 OctFire rages through overcrowded social housing in Faro, leaving 29 people displaced
A fire tore through the Horta da Areia social housing estate in Faro early this Tuesday afternoon, 13 October, destroying at least two prefabricated homes and several outbuildings and leaving 29 people displaced. No injuries were reported, and the blaze was brought under control about an hour after the alarm was raised
Algarve Daily News13 OctBritish Airways flight to Faro forced to turn back to London after reported window fracture
A British Airways flight from London Gatwick to Faro was forced to turn back this Tuesday morning, 13 October, after damage was reported to one of the aircraft’s windows.
Algarve Daily News12 OctAlgarve: Tommy Robinson’s Quinta do Lago-based businesses raise questions over international donations, making over €870,000 in one year
Two companies associated with British far-right activist Tommy Robinson, an alias of Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, have been found to be registered at a luxury shopping centre in the Algarve’s Quinta do Lago. One company reported profits of more than €170,000 in 2025, and paid over €40,000 in Portuguese taxes.
Algarve Daily News12 OctQuinta do Lago: Three builders killed in workplace accident at private house in luxury resort
Three construction workers have died in a workplace accident at Quinta do Lago, in the municipality of Loulé, after being found dead inside a septic tank at a private property.
Algarve Daily News12 OctSix foreign men removed from illegally occupied property on Faro’s Culatra Island
The six men were identified by the Maritime Police and left the vacant property voluntarily, with no arrests being carried out. The incident comes amid growing concerns over drug-smuggling activity and criminal networks operating along the Algarve’s coast.
Algarve Daily News9 OctPortimão welcomes Portugal’s first training centre for adaptive and inclusive sailing
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 from January 2027, the Vela Solidária association, the project’s promoter, has announced.
Algarve Daily News9 OctNearly four tonnes of cocaine seized off Alentejo coast, as three drug smugglers arrested
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 October.