Lagos firefighters rescue stranded donkey from muddy ditch
A donkey had to be rescued by Lagos’ volunteer firefighters after it fell into a ditch near the local aerodrome in the early hours of this Thursday morning (September 24).
“It’s hard to explain how we went so long without it”: Faro Mayor inaugurates new crematorium
Faro’s new crematorium was finally inaugurated yesterday (September 23) following over a decade of delays which had started to cast doubts on whether the project would ever come to fruition.
Algarve’s second crematorium opens this week in Faro
Tomorrow (September 23) will mark the opening of Faro’s crematorium, just six months after the inauguration of the Algarve’s first such infrastructure in Albufeira (click here). The crematorium in Faro
Algarve unemployment skyrockets 178% in August
The number of unemployed people signed up at job centres in the Algarve increased 177.8% in August compared to the same month last year, revealed the Institute of Employment and
EDC dance music festival to host 25th anniversary edition in Praia da Rocha
Praia da Rocha in Portimão will be the setting for the 25th anniversary edition of Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC), which is expected to take place between June 18 and 20,
Algarve: old police outposts to be turned into hotels and resorts
The government has unveiled a plan to turn five former outposts of Portugal’s Guarda Fiscal – an old military police force which was dissolved in 1993 – in the Algarve
Body believed to be missing tourist found near Vila do Bispo beach
Maritime authorities have recovered a body believed to belong to a 28-year-old tourist who went missing last Friday (September 18) at Vila do Bispo’s Furnas beach. The body was spotted
Nineteen arrested as police dismantle major Algarve drug ring led by two Brits
GNR police have dismantled a major drug trafficking network in the Algarve, which led to the arrest of 19 people and the confiscation of over 24,000 individual doses of drugs
João d’Arens to remain ‘development-free’ as Portimão hotel project gets second ‘thumbs down’
Environmentalists in the Algarve are celebrating the news that the controversial project to build three hotels in “one of the last untouched coastal areas” in Portimão has once again received
Tragedy at Praia do Pintadinho as 57-year-old spearfisher dies
A 57-year-old Portuguese spearfisher died this morning at Lagoa’s Praia do Pintadinho. According to Portugal’s maritime authority (AMN), the man started to struggle to breathe and was helped out of