Puerto Rico

Electric power has been restored to nearly all affected customers across Puerto Rico after a sweeping blackout plunged the U.S. territory into darkness on New Year’s Eve.

The two fishermen ran out of fuel and capsized 5 miles south of Desecheo Island, Puerto Rico, and were rescued by a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter aircrew.

Grid manager Luma says full restoration will take 24 to 48 hours but it is working to fix the outage that has left more than 1.2 million people without power.

More than 700,000 clients, including 16 hospitals and Puerto Rico’s water and sewer company, had power back by Tuesday night, according to Luma.

The two parties that have dominated Puerto Rican politics for decades are losing their grip as they face the stiffest competition yet from a younger generation fed up with the island’s corruption, chronic power outages and mismanagement of public funds.

Last month, the Puerto Rican Dominican singer appeared onstage with Trump at a rally endorsing him.

A Massachusetts woman and her child, whom she’s accused of kidnapping, were tracked down at a relative’s house in Puerto Rico Tuesday, authorities said. Danielle Andrews, a 47-year-old from Rockland, was arrested as a fugitive in Carolina, a suburb of San Juan, and the child placed in the custody of local Department of Family Services, according to the U.S....

His remarks came after recent data found that 75% of all newly eligible voters under age 21 in the U.S. territory hadn’t registered to vote and amid a decline in voter turnout.

Puerto Rico has lost thousands of its doctors in the past decade, many having fled to the U.S. mainland for better pay. That’s why one doctor, Pedro Juan Vázquez, who is better known by his rapper stage name PJ Sin Suela, is trying to fill the gaps.

The U.S. government says $325 million in federal funds will be available for solar and battery storage installations across Puerto Rico as the U.S. territory struggles with chronic power outages.

A widespread power outage has hit Puerto Rico and left more than 340,000 customers without electricity after two of the U.S. territory’s power plants shut down.

Rescuers and emergency teams were searching for 28-year-old Alex DaLomba Tavares of New Bedford after he was swept away at the Gozalandia waterfall in the Municipality of San Sebastián.

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The body of a Massachusetts man who was swept away by the current at a waterfall in Puerto Rico on Wednesday has been found, according to the authorities. Rescuers and emergency teams were searching for 28-year-old Alex DaLomba Tavares of New Bedford after he was swept away at the Gozalandia waterfall in the Municipality of San Sebastián. Daniel Cabrero...

More than a week after a Massachusetts Marine disappeared in Puerto Rico, his loved ones are holding out hope for closure. Samuel Maturi, a 26-year-old Worcester man, was swept away last week by a strong current on La Pared beach in Luquillo. The active search for him ended Monday, but his fiancée, Natasha Castillo, is not giving up. “That’s...

A family is still holding out hope after a Marine from Worcester was swept away by a strong current at a Puerto Rican beach.

Days after a U.S. Marine from Massachusetts was swept from a beach in Puerto Rico, the search for him has changed, with local authorities saying that the active search for him was ending as of Monday. Cpl. Samuel Maturi Wanjiru, 26, was at La Pared beach in Luquillo, on Puerto Rico’s north-facing shore, on Wednesday with his partner when...

Jesús Márquez, mayor of the Luquillo, Puerto Rico, told NBC10 Boston that the entire community is dismayed by this incident, which involves a young couple who were not only vacationing on the Island, but were also getting engaged soon.

A Worcester Marine on vacation in Puerto Rico is missing after being swept away by a powerful current.

Authorities in Puerto Rico are searching for U.S. Marine from Massachusetts after he was swept away by the current on a Puerto Rico beach on Wednesday. The victim was identified as 26-year-old Samuel Maturi Wanjiru.

A U.S. Marine from Massachusetts who was swept away by the current at a Puerto Rico beach on Wednesday has been identified amid an ongoing search. The U.S. Coast Guard and other agencies were still searching for 26-year-old Samuel Maturi Wanjiru, who disappeared from the beach, authorities said. The incident occurred at about 3:58 p.m. Wednesday at La Pared Beach...