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More than one-fourth of Puerto Rico still lacks electricity four months after Hurricane Maria struck the island. Around 45 percent of the neighborhoods on the island still have no electric service, CBS correspondent David Begnaud tweeted on Wednesday. The current ...

Most Puerto Ricans will be without electricity for the foreseeable future after a controversial contract to rebuild the island’s power grid was cancelled. The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) on Sunday cancelled a $300 million contract to rebuild the ...

Puerto Rico has become “generator island,” as most residents of the commonwealth still lack electricity, running water and healthcare nearly a month after Hurricane Maria. The New York Times painted a grim picture of life on the island. “Because of ...

Oct. 4, 2017 The recent one-two punch of Hurricane Irma passing north of Puerto Rico and then Hurricane Maria crossing over the island has given us a rare opportunity to witness about as serious a crisis situation as one can ...

The words “apocalyptic devastation” and “humanitarian crisis” are being used to describe conditions in Puerto Rico following hits by Hurricanes Irma and Maria, which have shut down modern civilization on the island. “It’s an avalanche of disasters, one disaster after ...

The electricity might be off for months in Puerto Rico following the destruction from Hurricane Maria, Governor Ricardo Rossello says. A full 100 percent of the island – which is home to 3.5 million people — was without electricity on ...

Most of Puerto Rico endured a second night without electricity Thursday following the total collapse of the island’s power grid. All it took was a fire at one power plant Wednesday to shut down a grid that provides power to ...

SAN JUAN – The entire island Puerto Rico fell into a blackout Wednesday following a major fire at a power plant that left officials wondering what had happened. It is unclear when power will be restored, local media reported, but the ...

More than one-third of the population in Puerto Rico is now on food stamps. American taxpayers are now handing out more than $2 billion each year to residents of Puerto Rico – most of it in cash. Since the food ...

Puerto Ricans are going to the polls this November to vote on statehood. Should it pass, they will petition the United States for entrance into our union. Unlike three similar referendums in the past, this time the U.S. Congress and ...