Puerto Rico

Officials are fanning out across Puerto Rico to gauge the damage inflicted by Hurricane Fiona.

A growing number of businesses, including grocery stores and gas stations, are temporarily closing across Puerto Rico as power outages caused by Hurricane Fiona drag on in the U.S. territory, sparking concern about the availability of fuel and basic goods. Hand-written signs warning of closures have been popping up more frequently, eliciting sighs and groans from customers on an...

Some states in the U.S. Northeast and parts of Canada are bracing for Hurricane Fiona to bring heavy rainfall and winds up to 60 mph.

Powerful Hurricane Fiona is pounding Bermuda with heavy rains and winds as it sweeps by the island on a route that is forecast to have approaching northeastern Canada as a still-powerful storm late Friday.

Hurricane Fiona left dozens of families stranded across Puerto Rico after smashing roads and bridges, with authorities still struggling to reach people four days after the storm smacked the U.S. territory, causing historic flooding.

Five years after Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, killing at least 3,000 residents and destroying the island’s power grid in 2017, the island is yet again facing the aftermath of another devastating storm. David Guadalupe, Puerto Rico’s Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster Chair, joins LX to discuss Puerto Rico’s road to recovery.

Days after Hurricane Fiona hit Puerto Rico, much of the island remains underwater. Arriving at Boston Logan Airport Wednesday from San Juan, Joanne Diaz is thinking of her mother. “When I left this morning, she still didn’t have no light, and that was going on four days,” Diaz said. “The damage is a lot,” Diaz said. “There are places...

Hurricane Fiona devastated Puerto Rico five years after Hurricane Maria, prompting flashbacks for many residents.

President Joe Biden has approved a major disaster declaration for Puerto Rico as it reels from Hurricane Fiona, Gov. Pedro Pierluisi said Wednesday.

As Hurricane Fiona continued its destructive path across the Caribbean on Tuesday, its victims were assessing the damage done to their homes and communities and turning to the Red Cross and other agencies for help. Here are some agencies offering assistance to the hurricane’s victims.

Salinas, Puerto Rico, was covered in flood waters after Hurricane Fiona made landfall.

Leaders in Boston and Massachusetts are planning for the possibility of thousands of Puerto Ricans heading to the area for relief after Hurricane Fiona slammed the island. The hurricane began pounding Puerto Rico over the weekend, causing flooding and landslides that ripped apart homes. “We probably will see an influx of a couple thousand, maybe more,” Boston City Councilor Ricardo…

More than 1 million people on Puerto Rico are without power after Hurricane Fiona slammed the island.

Hurricane Fiona left most of Puerto Rico without power on Sunday after the storm battered the island with heavy rain and whipping winds.

No deaths have been reported, but authorities in the U.S. territory said it was too early to estimate the damage from a storm that was still forecast to unleash torrential rain across Puerto Rico on Monday

Hurricane Fiona unleashed more rain on Puerto Rico on Monday, a day after the storm knocked out power and water to most of the island, and National Guard troops rescued hundreds of people who got stranded.

Nearly five years have passed since Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory of 3.2 million people.

A Hurricane Warning is in effect for Puerto Rico, including Vieques and Culebra and the eastern coast of the Dominican Republic from Cabo Caucedo to Cabo Francés Viejo

Hurricane Fiona has struck Puerto Rico’s southwest coast after causing an island-wide power blackout and threatening to dump “historic” levels of rain.