The island imports more than 80 percent of its food, and residents already face rising prices and supply chain issues.

Puerto Rico's disputes with New Fortress Energy, the parent of the island's power plant operator, Genera PR, could spread to ...

Puerto Rico Tackles Unemployment, Statehood Issues When Barack Obama lands in Puerto Rico on Tuesday, it will be the first time in five decades that a sitting U.S. President has paid the island an ...

There has been plenty of discussion of the rise of young farmers in Puerto Rico since Maria. But the revival has done more than just bring food security to communities. The revival is also playing a ...

The effort by the local government and the ruling elite in Puerto Rico to cover over this reality of social inequality and class struggle is best expressed in their post-Hurricane Maria slogan ...

Puerto Rico issues LGBTQ emergency declaration amid violence. ... Puerto Rico has had a hate crime law in place since 2002, ... Police believe the video was also posted on social media.

So unrelentingly are the cards stacked against them that only 694 high school graduates from all of Puerto Rico went to college on the mainland or abroad in 2016, the last year for which the figure is ...

In Puerto Rico, growing opioid crisis adds to island's post-hurricane issues A volunteer doctor said he'd never seen, in 30 years, three to four deaths a week in one neighborhood street, but he's ...

Laviena was among the addicts who approached the social workers that day. He dropped off 140 used needles, picked up clean cookers and paused to recount his near-death experience before disappearing ...

Puerto Rico has a new superhero — and she’s about to return for her next adventure. Marisol Rios De La Luz is La Borinqueña, the original superhero starring in a comic book of the same name ...