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 ...

A year later, Congress granted residents permission ... announced almost $13 billion in new aid to repair Puerto Rico’s hurricane-ravaged electrical grid and schools. Successive hurricanes ...

A violent act on New Year’s Day allegedly committed by a tourist highlights rising tensions between the island and the mainland United States.

"The freedom of Puerto Rico is pending, and we will achieve it with Brazilian troops," the Venezuelan president said.

The devastation wrought by Hurricanes Irma and Maria in Puerto Rico could provide an opportunity to rebuild the island’s energy system in a sustainable way. But failing to take food ...

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 ...

Puerto Rico has been a U.S. territory since 1898, with limited representation in Congress and often insufficient ... with power outages and devastating hurricanes that have ravaged the land ...

Among the list of calamities that have struck Puerto Rico in just the past two decades are an economic recession, a catastrophic debt crisis, and devastating hurricanes and earthquakes.