The Portimão Judicial Police (PJ) have identified and arrested a 51 year old man for two alleged arson crimes, one of them being the fire and explosion that took place in the early afternoon of this Wednesday, at a family home in Portimão centre, the other a vehicle.

The Judicial Police has recaptured another of the five escapees from the Vale de Judeus prison, who made their getaway in September this year, this time Portuguese Fernando Ribeiro Ferreira, in Trás-os-Montes.

A building fire that broke out at around 1:18 pm yesterday afternoon, accompanied by two explosions, caused some of the busiest roads in Portimão city to be closed.

After a decade of absence, the game of marbles returns to the Dr. Neves Júnior primary school in Faro, thanks to physical education teacher, Nélson Brito.

Meia Praia in Lagos is the latest beach to be invaded by a huge amount of algae, extending across practically the entire sandbank, which is around 5 kilometres long. (video)

The Algarve was chosen at this year's International Citrus Congress, which took place in South Korea from the 10th to the 15th November.

Celeste Caeiro, the lady who handed out red carnations to soldiers on their way to ending Portugal’s 40 year right-wing dictatorship, has died aged 91.

The GNR have arrested a 22 year old man for drug trafficking in Vilamoura, seizing more than six hundred doses of hashish that the man had in his possession.