Puerto Rico

A private company that took over power transmission and distribution in Puerto Rico this month has struggled with widespread outages and growing anger as it scrambled Thursday to control a large fire at a main substation that left hundreds of thousands of clients in the dark.

Hundreds of people showed up to Hartford’s Puerto Rican Day parade on Saturday. It was a little different this year as organizers opted for a caravan, but still had a fun time celebrating Puerto Rican culture in a safe way. “We’re just excited to hear some live music, just to see our flags, just to see the community get...

Hundreds of people showed up to Hartford’s Puerto Rican Day parade on Saturday.

A new fellowship co-sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will provide $25,000 for emerging and established Puerto Rican writers.

The IRS extended the federal tax deadline to May 17, 2021, but when is the last day Americans can realistically wait to file their taxes?

Puerto Rican boxer Félix Verdejo turned himself in to federal agents Sunday night to face federal charges just hours after authorities identified the body of a dead woman as his 27-year-old pregnant lover, officials said.

Cobertura en vivo.

An investigation is underway after the burned body of a missing Delaware man was found in Puerto Rico over the weekend.

Puerto Rico’s population fell 11.8 percent to 3.3 million over the past decade, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Monday.

The administration of former President Donald Trump obstructed an investigation looking into why officials withheld about $20 billion in hurricane relief for Puerto Rico following the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Maria in 2017, one of the deadliest U.S. natural disasters in over 100 years, a new report says.

Puerto Rico’s governor says officials will start vaccinating all those 16 and older on April 12, an unexpected move that prompted celebrations across a U.S. territory facing a spike in COVID-19 cases.

Some cities are offering up to $16,000 in cash incentives for people to move there, according to MakeMyMove.com.

A grandfather who pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in the fall of his young granddaughter from an 11th-story window of a cruise ship docked in Puerto Rico was sentenced Monday to three years’ probation, according to justice officials. Salvatore “Sam” Anello, of Valparaiso, Indiana, had pleaded guilty in the case in October 2020. Defense attorney Michael Winkleman has said Anello…

A settlement has been reached in one of the largest lawsuits filed under the 1965 Voting Rights Act over providing Spanish-language ballots and assistance to Puerto Rican voters in 32 Florida counties. The settlement provides for Spanish language ballots, election material, hotlines, options on websites, assistance at polls, and signs at election supervisors’ offices. “We’re very pleased with what the…

Over the past three years, the island of Puerto Rico has faced mounting disasters – the devastating Hurricane Maria in 2017, several large earthquakes and aftershocks in 2020, and, most recently, the coronavirus pandemic. The disasters have left non-profit animal rescue groups like Animal Lighthouse Rescue with a big problem on their hands as the population of stray dogs, called…

Thousands of Vietnamese pot-bellied pigs are snorting and squealing their way across Puerto Rico in what many fear has become an unstoppable quest to eat and reproduce.

Vaccinations against COVID-19 in Puerto Rico officially began on Tuesday at Ashford Hospital in San Juan.

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As Georgia’s GOP Sen. David Perdue was forced into a runoff with Democrat Jon Ossoff, Republicans warned about what is at stake in the coming election: statehood for Puerto Rico, NBC News reports.

A judge has ordered the arrest of a tourist from the U.S. mainland who is accused of attacking a National Guard trooper at Puerto Rico’s airport after refusing to wear a face mask as required under pandemic restrictions