Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority

The Oversight Board urged the federal government to provide more help to the island’s people and businesses.

The insurer seeks at least $720 million from Wall Street firms that underwrote Puerto Rico bonds issued from 2001 to 2007.

Puerto Rico’s economic activity index slipped 0.7% in June from a year earlier, as the economic boost from federal hurricane recovery aid receded.

Secretary of Justice Wanda Vázquez Garced said she will swear in as governor Wednesday afternoon.

Puerto Rico Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz is leading a suit seeking the court to remove the former resident commissioner from the position.

The Trump administration is planning to place restrictions on disaster aid for U.S. states and territories.

Puerto Rico's governor looks to patch up a scandal-ridden administration before his own resignation takes effect.

Two weeks of unrest have cut economic activity by 15%, and a disorderly transfer of power may disrupt the territory's historic debt restructuring.

With a weakened government, the Oversight Board may be emboldened to take more unilateral actions on bond restructuring, analysts said.

This latest IRS action is one of a series of bond audits involving various government agencies in Puerto Rico.