Puerto Rico Highway & Transportation Authority

Mediation Team Leader Barbara Houser said that mediation has recently been "productive" and should be given more time.

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.

Swain insists that holders of 2012 and 2014 bonds, which have been challenged as illegal, be given litigation notice.

Bankruptcy mediator Barbara Houser recommends litigation over $22 billion in bonds should resume in January and February.

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

The mediator's report on almost $26 billion of bonds is now scheduled to be submitted on Nov. 27.

Judge Swain has ordered an end to the stay on open litigation of pension bond issues.

The Supreme Court let a lower court decision stand that may mean bondholders will get 100 cents on the dollar instead of 13 cents on $3.2 billion of bonds.

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

Lawyers say relations between the governor and the Oversight Board have improved with the new governor.

The mediation, initiated six weeks ago to resolve disputes over almost $25 billion of bonds, has yet to address the core issue of legality of some of the debt, according to a bondholder familiar with the process.

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

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.