Unlike Canadians, Puerto Ricans actually want to become a state. They are eager to gain the full rights and responsibilities ...

Trump could make history by leading the charge for Puerto Rican statehood. He would achieve many of the same goals behind his ...

Pablo José Hernández Rivera, the incoming resident commissioner of Puerto Rico — the territory's nonvoting member of the House of Representatives — said in a statement that he'd alerted ...

Barceló in Barrio Obrero, typically bustling with people, has been uncharacteristically empty since an immigration raid on ...

Some observers say Jenniffer González Colón, who took office in January, may be more open to compromise with Puerto Rico ...

Newly elected Resident Commissioner Pablo Hernández Rivera of the PPD has said he will put Puerto Rico’s statehood debate aside to focus on the island’s economic development. Independence.

Dressed in a light-gray suit, Anthony testified before U.S. District Judge Hector Gonzalez inside a crowded courtroom. The ...

The bill has the tentative support of the two highest-ranking elected officials in Puerto Rico’s government: Governor Alejandro Garcia-Padilla and Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi, ...

Four state public utility commissioners have been named to the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners ...

“This is cause for action and concern,'' said Nino Correa, Puerto Rico's emergency management commissioner. The category 1 hurricane is strengthening and could cause ”catastrophic“ flooding ...