A German man has been rescued from a watery death off an unsupervised beach on the Ria Formosa island of Culatra.

The 61-year-old tourist was swimming off the eastern tip of the island on Sunday in an area notorious for its strong currents.

Over 300 taxi drivers continued their strike against the “unfair competition” posed by Uber and other personal transport services, by partially blocking the access to Faro airport with their vehicles.

This is day six of a national strike that has enable Uber and others to expand their services, especially in Porto, Lisbon and the Algarve.

A mystery ship has been discovered on the seabed near Cascais with a cargo of spices and Ming dynasty ceramics.

Already being referred to as the 'discovery of the decade,' the ship sunk between 1575 and 1625, and was found by a group of underwater archaeologists in a research project led by Cascais Council.

The Algarve and lower Alentejo region’s Sul Informação online news service has signed a deal with Jornal de Notícias in which the two publications will share selected news content.

In a meeting in Porto, other media (news, TV and radio), one from each region in the country, also signed up to the new News Network.

A fire broke out in an underground car park in Monchique, near the viewing point, destroying six vehicles and causing damage to several others.

The alert was given at 05:21 am this morning and firefighters from Monchique rushed to the scene, later receiving support from colleagues from Portimão, Lagoa, Albufeira and Silves.

Docapesca has announced a new public tender to dredge Faro harbour for an increased target price of €375,000.

The launch of this new tender, already published in Diário da República, follows up an earlier failed tendering process launched on August 16, 2018, in which all the bids received were over the maximum price.

Good news for conservationists and bird-lovers across the region as Almargem has announed it has received project funding from the Nature Conservation and Biodiversity programme of the Environmental Fund. 

This will pay for in-depth studies of specific aspects of several wetland areas in the Algarve, writes Almargem, namely the Alagoas Brancas area in Lagoa threatened by Continente, Sapais de Pêra and Lagoa dos Salgados (pictured) straddling Silves and Albufeira Council areas where Millennium Bank is keen to flog off the laughably named 'eco-Resort' at Praia Grande, the wetland of Trafal near Vilamoura and Foz do Almargem in Loulé.

Portugal come third of the EU’s renewable energy ranking, behind Sweden and Austria.

Only in five EU countries does renewable energy account for more than 50% of consumption.