Growth is in the air! During the celebration of Madeira’s five-million-passenger milestone, President Miguel Albuquerque eyed Miami, calling for stronger US connections and more international flights.
First ever public data on Madeira’s rental cars is here! In Q1 2025: 102,852 rentals, €17.07M revenue, 11,069 vehicles, mostly rented by German, Portuguese, and Polish tourists.
In DIÁRIO's 'Rostos da Autonomia' podcast, former Funchal mayor Pedro Calado says he wants to return to politics, claiming he has no doubts the legal case is politically motivated.
INE data for 2023-2025 puts life expectancy at birth in Madeira at 80.06 years, below the national average but above the Azores at 78.69.
Heavy showers and thunderstorms put Madeira's south coast and mountains under an orange warning from 00:00 to 09:00 on Sunday, 1 November.
Madeira produced about 3,637 tonnes of grapes in 2026, up 27.48% on 2025. IVBAM presented the figures at a wine forum in the Azores.
APRAM will invest close to 5 million euros in Funchal port, with new mooring bollards, water and sewage works and twice the border control booths.
A DIÁRIO fact-check traced Madeira's housing problems from 1990 to 2025 and rated the claim that the crisis is cyclical as inaccurate.
Banks valued Madeira homes at a median 2,642 euros per square metre in September 2026, up 14.3% in a year. Funchal passed 3,000 euros.
Traffic on Madeira's Via Rápida rose 1.4% in the first nine months of 2026, but growth stalled between July and September.
Alex Sampaio and his wife opened a new gym in Ponta do Sol worth about 500,000 euros, with solar panels and classes for all ages.