Puerto Rico legislators have held a contentious public hearing on whether to scale back renewable energy goals and extend ...

In September 2017, Hurricane Maria decimated the territory ... territory's non-voting resident commissioner in Congress, said stabilizing Puerto Rico’s energy grid will be her top priority ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6 occurred on Saturday in the Caribbean Sea, according to the US Geological Survey, ...

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The massive blackout may leave much of the island without electricity as 2025 begins. A “massive blackout” that hit much of Puerto Rico early Tuesday may keep the U.S. territory in the dark through ...

Puerto Rico’s new Republican governor is drawing ... granted in 1917 by an act of Congress, following the U.S. takeover of the island from Spain in the 1898 Spanish-American War.

Father Enrique Camacho said he has received calls at the Caritas Puerto Rico office from concerned citizens looking for ...

Puerto Rico has struggled with chronic power outages since Hurricane Maria pummeled the U.S. territory in September 2017 as a Category 4 storm, razing an electric grid that previously lacked ...

Trump has history with Puerto Rico. During his first term, he had a problematic relationship with Puerto Rican officials, resisted sending aid after the island was devastated by hurricanes and ...