Puerto Rico

The Puerto Rican Arts Alliance in Chicago is working to protect and amplify Puerto Rico’s arts and culture, and the program’s executive director Ignacio Lopez speaks with Michelle Relerford about the group’s National Cuatro Festival Concert, coming up Nov. 2.

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.

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...

Daddy Yankee, known for hits such as “Gasolina” and “Despacito,” said he hopes to “evangelize the world” and live for Jesus

The Puerto Rico Status Act is legislation which would allow the U.S. territory to vote on whether to become the 51st state or secede as an independent country.

Video obtained by Telemundo affiliate WKAQ-TV shows the moment at least seven shots were fired near the court’s entrance as a reporter who was preparing for a broadcast fled the area.

Puerto Rico endured temperatures that felt as hot as 125 degrees Fahrenheit this week, according to the National Weather Service, as the U.S. territory experiences excessive heat conditions that will continue for another week.

An inmate who tried to mutilate his genitals at the Pedro Joel Rodriguez Matos maximum security prison in Ponce, Puerto Rico, will receive therapy and psychological treatment until he completes his sentence in August.

Spirit Airlines apologized to a Puerto Rican family after one employee did not allow them to board a flight from Los Angeles to Puerto Rico because their toddler did not have a passport.

A man is facing serious charges after FBI officials said he placed a hidden camera inside a public restroom on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship that filmed more than 150 people including children.

A woman is in custody in connection with the killings of two NYU business students who were shot in Puerto Rico while apparently on a birthday celebration trip this past weekend, authorities said Tuesday. Police say the woman, who has not been identified, negotiated with police and turned herself into authorities. They say she has a criminal record that includes…

Two college students from NYU were shot and killed in Puerto Rico over the weekend while they were said to be on a trip celebrating a birthday. The MBA students were killed outside of a San Juan nightclub in the early morning hours Saturday when local authorities say the friends were caught in the crossfire between two other groups of…