Puerto Rico's hurricane-battered power grid has suffered compounding crises including hurricanes and financial problems.

UPDATE: Sept. 20, 2017, 5:10 p.m. EDT Hurricane Maria is now considered a Category 2 storm with 110 miles per hour sustained winds, according to a 5 p.m. ET update from the National Hurricane Center.

More than 400,000 Puerto Ricans left without water service as power company scrambles to restore critical facilities.

The power outage, which began on Wednesday, was the latest to hit the island, which has long suffered from blackouts.

Puerto Rico’s governor is urging people to moderate their energy consumption and warns the island has no additional power ...

It was not immediately clear why every generating plant on the island went offline Wednesday. Puerto Rico has a history of ...

The blackout hit Puerto Rico as the largely Catholic residents of the U.S. territory prepared to celebrate the Easter weekend ...

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Puerto Rico has struggled with chronic outages since September 2017 when Hurricane Maria pummeled the island as a powerful Category 4 storm, razing a power grid that crews are still struggling to ...

The island of Puerto Rico is suffering another islandwide power outage, just months after a dayslong blackout on New Year's ...

“It meant a huge difference for the school,” Caraballo said. Yabucoa, a small town in southeast Puerto Rico, was one of the regions hardest hit by Hurricane Maria in 2017. And this school community, ...