A 35 year old man has been arrested by the Judicial Police (PJ) in Vilamoura, as part of an ongoing investigation into a group dedicated to laundering illicit proceeds, using the Portuguese financial system.

The Public Prosecutor's Office (MP) has requested a 12 year prison sentence for the man accused of murdering his landlord in Albufeira in 2024, with the defense arguing that the death was accidental.

The Municipality of Lagoa has strengthened its network of Automated External Defibrillators, installing 8 new defibrillators, strategically distributed throughout the municipality's parishes.

Traffic was interrupted on the Via do Infante (A22) early this morning, between the A2 motorway junction and the Boliqueime junction.

The National Maritime Authority have released a report stating that 16 people died on Portuguese beaches between May and August this year, 10 of them from drowning.

Portuguese authorities have rejected 34 of the 38 asylum requests from the group of Moroccan migrants who disembarked in the Algarve on August 8th.

Having been closed since March this year, due to big cracks and the risk of landslides on the road, repairs to the EN120 in Odeceixe began on Friday.

In a Special Crime Prevention Operation in the city of Faro during the early hours of Friday, police issued more than 60 fines overnight.