A British man fell into the water and disappeared after the float he was being towed on, flipped over.
The man has been missing since Monday afternoon at the vast Santa Clara reservoir in the Alentejo municipality of Ourique, to the north of Monchique.
Unsurprisingly, having reviewed the video of the President of the Eurogroup’s speech on the Greek situation, Yanis Varoufakis compares it to North Korean propaganda.
Portuguse MP, João Galamba, criticises the speech by Mário Centeno, who also is Portugal’s Minister of Finance, calling it "regrettable."
Portugal’s much feared Food and Economic Security Authority, ASAE, has ended its indifference to the Alojamento Local short-term tourist rental sector with a swoop on 610 registered AL businesses.
Three tourist accommodation units have been closed down due to an appalling lack of food hygiene, fines have been issued to others.
The hunting season is back on for certain species of birds, with pigeon, collared dove and moorhen which have been fair game as from Sunday, August 19th, - despite the risk of fire caused by hunters' guns.
Hunters' associations say all hunting will be subject to conditions advised to their members, especially in districts that are on red alert due to fire risk, but shooting will not be prohibited.
An accident blocked the Algarve’s Via do Infante motorway this morning, leaving three people injured, two of them seriously.
The crash at 11:45 on Monday morning left the Faro-bound lane blocked after a tourist transport vehicle was involved in a collision with a lorry at the Areeiro tunnel near Loulé.
Toys "R" Us is to continue operations in Portugal and Spain after Portuguese investors announced they are to buy the insolvent company's Iberian subsidiary.
Toys "R" Us Iberia is to be acquired by Green Swan, fronted by Paulo Andrez, who joins the current management team as majority shareholder.
There was a 22% year-on-year increase in the number abandoned pets that were taken in by official Council collection centres in 2017.
So far in 2018, managers at Portugal’s official collection centres have reported that around 14,000 animals have been taken in.
Portimão Council intends to move ahead before the year end with the first of two renovation projects for the old Lota de Portimão power station building on the dockside near the old bridge.
The first part of the overall project is to carry out urgent renovation work to stop the building decaying further. This work to replace the roof and fix the walls is budgeted at an eye-watering €350,000 with €80,000 coming from the ERDF community fund.
