A U.S. air base on the island of Praia da Vitoria in the Azores archipelago off the coast of Portugal is downsizing. WSJ’s Patricia Kowsmann looks at the impact this will have on the community.

And when Tony Blair's plane lands, as expected, at the Lajes Field air base on the Azores island of Terceira, the islands' national flag flying at the end of the runway will provide more than a ...

and several congressmen from the House Intelligence Committee as it descended toward the single runway at Lajes Field, a sleepy U.S. Air Force base perched along a windswept Azores island 1,000 ...