Puerto Rico’s new governor Jenniffer González Colón has appointed a so-called energy czar to help pull the U.S. territory out ...

Nearly half of the island’s 1.4 million utility customers had power by late Tuesday night. The electricity provider said it ...

As Puerto Ricans welcomed 2025, many faced the grim-reality of celebrating in the dark as outages lingered following another ...

As Trump focuses on expanding the U.S. map, residents of Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico have spent years advocating for their own statehood.

Power outages are a frustratingly frequent occurrence for many Puerto Ricans. A string of blackouts during the summer ...

A blackout hit nearly all of Puerto Rico early on Tuesday as the U.S. territory prepared to celebrate New Year’s, leaving ...

Almost 90% of households in Puerto Rico were without electricity Tuesday morning after a failure in the fragile power grid ...

Jenniffer González Colón has been sworn in as Puerto Rico’s new governor as the island prepared for a normally ebullient ...

Puerto Rico has been immersed in darkness after a power grid failure sparked a blackout across much of the island. The outage happened in the early hours of Tuesday, the last day of 2024.

A massive blackout hit Puerto Rico ... the entire island lose power," he said. Pamplin said power wasn't the only problem during a blackout. He said water pressure in Puerto Rico is typically ...

However, no contract can be canceled without prior approval from Puerto Rico’s Energy Bureau and a federal control board that oversees the island’s finances. Outages were still being reported ...