Officers recently confiscated nearly 6.5 tons of cocaine from a semi-submersible vessel, or so-called "narco sub," ...

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.

Kerry Murray for The New York Times A view overlooking the northwest coast of São Miguel, the largest of the islands that make up the Azores archipelago. Kerry Murray for The New York Times Steam ...

The Azores are preparing to welcome an innovative tourism project that promises to redefine the concept of luxury, well-being ...

The beaches here are unique in that, like many other natural attractions in the Azores, they feature characteristics ... which is one of the few beaches in the archipelago that doesn't feature ...

The Azores is probably one of the best places ... with more than 20 different species of cetaceans that either call the archipelago home or pass through during their yearly migrations.

The vessel was intercepted “in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, around 500 nautical miles (more than 900 kilometres)” south of Portugal’s Azores archipelago, the judicial police statement said. Five ...

The New Bedford Whaling Museum will host an event exploring the history and culture of Pico Island, the second largest island ...

Currently, SATA Azores Airlines connects the Azores with eight countries across Africa, Europe, and North America, serving ...

Situated on one of the islands in the Azores archipelago, this was an obligatory port of call from the 15th century until the advent of the steamship in the 19th century. The 400-year-old San ...

History books tell us that Portuguese navigators found the Azores islands uninhabited in the middle of the Atlantic during the early 1400s. But some intriguing constructions suggest that people ...

The 987-ha site on the volcanic island of Pico, the second largest in the Azores archipelago, consists of a remarkable pattern of spaced-out, long linear walls running inland from, and parallel to, ...