Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority

Moody's says handling electrical demand will be a challenge for the island.

On Monday there was a magnitude 5.7 earthquake Monday and Tuesday a 6.4 earthquake was followed by a 5.6 earthquake and multiple smaller aftershocks.

The Census Bureau’s 3,193,694 estimate for July 1 is 2.6% higher than the Oversight Board predicted for the date in its May 2019 fiscal plan.

To avoid a return of the economic downturn, the board may need to improve its program to promote economic growth. Part V of a five-part series.

Three Puerto Rico-based economists offer alternatives to the board's plans. Part IV of a five-part series.

A poverty level three times the national average leaves Puerto Rico especially vulnerable if service cuts and tax increases go too far. Part III of a five-part series.

Economists point to past successes and failures as Puerto Rico's Oversight Board focuses on conservative approaches. Part II of a five-part series.

The Oversight Board is following a belt-tightening strategy that some economists warn may squelch economic growth, putting bonds back into restructuring. Part I of a five-part series.

Puerto Rico, with more than $70 billion of bonds at stake, has become a testing ground of austerity for an economy in decline.

The index gained 0.4% year-over-year in October.

Five Republican representatives asked three Democrats to withdraw their legal brief opposing the agreement.

Gov. Wanda Vázquez's bill aims to prevent the commonwealth from pursuing debt practices that have gotten it into trouble.

Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vázquez's misgivings about rate increases threaten to upend the $8 billion restructuring plan, a lawyer for unsecured creditors told the bankruptcy court.

The plan would rebuild the power system with a web of "micro grids," funded in part with federal and private money.

Two board members said an effort in congress to shift responsibility for the commonwealth's infrastructure revitalization is ill timed.

The House Natural Resources Committee, meanwhile, is meeting Oct. 22 to consider removing the infrastructure revitalization section from the federal legislation that established the Puerto Rico Financial Oversight and Management Board.

The wild card part of this case is whether the justices decide to take an expansive look back on early 20th century decisions known as the Insular Cases and rule on the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens living in territories outside the 50 states.

The island's economic index "is approaching the behavior that existed prior to the hurricane.”

The household employment survey showed good economic news, while other measures were mixed.

Six of the eight audits — including the Building Authority audit disclosed Monday — involve IRS Form 8038-CP.