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.
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, who had already been suspended as a precaution.
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.
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.
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.
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, and worsen the region’s water shortages.
Mercadona opened its first Algarve supermarket this Thursday morning, 15 October, at the Nova Vila Retail Park in Portimão.
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.
