Hurricanes

In this Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017 photo, a brigade from the Electric Power Authority repairs distribution lines damaged by Hurricane Maria in the Cantera community of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The storm struck after the Authority had filed for bankruptcy in July, put off maintenance and had finished dealing with outages from Hurricane Irma.

Energy and Environment

Puerto Rico suffers total power outage

Josh Siegel · April 18, 2018 4:13 pm

CORRECTS FROM MORAVIS TO MOROVIS- Luis Cosme poses sitting in an armchair in what is left of his house destroyed by Hurricane Maria, in Morovis, Puerto Rico, Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017. Cosme, a worker at a cleaning company, felt the high winds and ran to the shelter at the Catholic church building. In the morning he came out and saw his house gone. "Thank God I am alive" he said.

Restoring Puerto Rico’s fiscal outlook

Carlos Mercader · April 18, 2018 4:00 am

Puerto Rico a growing hub for cocaine, heroin shipments to the US

Anna Giaritelli · April 16, 2018 12:00 am

Energy and Environment

Army Corps says Puerto Rico power grid in ‘much better condition,’ but 50,000 still in dark

Josh Siegel · April 11, 2018 10:26 pm

In this Friday, Oct. 13, 2017 photo, a student sits alone in a classroom at Ramon Marin Sola Elementary School, which opened its doors as a daytime community center after the passing of Hurricane Maria in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. Because Hurricane Maria followed closely after Hurricane Irma, students have had only about six weeks of class since the academic year started Aug. 14.

Puerto Rico to close one quarter of its public schools

Anna Giaritelli · April 6, 2018 3:38 pm

PREPA employee Jose Colon Maldonado waits for Governor Ricardo Rossello and staff from the army engineers corps to take a tour thru the facilities of the Palo Seco Thermal Power Plant, which the Electric Power Authority plans to activate in order to energize different areas of the metropolitan area, 28 days after the passage of hurricane Maria, in Catano, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017. A month after Hurricane Maria rolled across the center of Puerto Rico, power is still out for the vast majority of people as the work to restore hundreds of miles of transmission lines and thousands of miles of distribution lines grinds on.

Energy and Environment

House panel blasts Puerto Rico power agency for trying to ‘discredit’ corruption probe

Josh Siegel · March 28, 2018 10:24 pm

Victims of Hurricane Maria carry supplies brought to them via helicopter by the Puerto Rican National Guard. The majority of U.S. voters believe the federal government "has done enough" to help Puerto Rico recover from Hurricane Maria's devastation. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

FEMA takes shot at Puerto Rico while denying it cared more about Texas hurricane response: We did the same, ‘if not more’

Anna Giaritelli · March 27, 2018 6:30 pm

Hurricane Maria made landfall in the U.S. Virgin Islands on Tuesday night as a Category 5 storm before bringing heavy rain, high winds and flooding to Puerto Rico on Wednesday morning. (AP Photo/Dominique Chomereau-Lamotte)

Trump in the crosshairs over differences between responses to hurricanes in Puerto Rico and Texas

Katelyn Caralle · March 27, 2018 12:21 pm

Energy and Environment

House panel investigating Puerto Rico’s power authority for corruption

Josh Siegel · March 12, 2018 9:55 pm

Puerto Rico was hit by Hurricane Maria last year, leading to downed power and few resources throughout the Commonwealth. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

Beltway Confidential

Puerto Rico is addicted to debt

Charles Sauer · February 28, 2018 4:15 pm

Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello said in his letter to congressional leadership that the Treasury told him last week it wanted to cut the aid fund from $4.9 billion to $2.065 billion and impose special terms and conditions. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Puerto Rico cries foul after Treasury delays, decreases hurricane disaster loan

Katelyn Caralle · February 28, 2018 2:31 pm

"I am writing to request that you issue a subpoena to compel the Department of Defense (DOD) to produce documents we requested on a bipartisan basis more than four months ago relating to its preparation for, and response to, Hurricanes Irma and Maria in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands," Elijah Cummings wrote to Trey Gowdy. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

National Security

Elijah Cummings wants to subpoena the Pentagon for hurricane documents

Travis J. Tritten · February 26, 2018 6:34 pm