Spirit Airlines flew its first flights to Puerto Rico in 2001 when it inaugurated service to San Juan, and later opened service to Aguadilla in 2007. Adding Ponce will provide Spirit’s Guests ...

As Puerto Rico’s tourism economy hits new highs, a quiet movement is reshaping how and where visitors experience the island.

Bad Bunny begins his highly-anticipated concert residency in Puerto Rico this summer, and fans are already planning their ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Mayor Mayita Meléndez of Ponce, Puerto Rico, about growing calls for the governor's resignation. So here we are, nearly a week into a scandal that has overtaken the ...

Ponce was founded in 1692 by Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de Leon's great-grandson Loiza Ponce de Leon. Ponce was Spain's capital city of the southern region until 1898, when Puerto Rico fell ...

Puerto Rico governor fires director of emergency services after warehouse found with supplies Puerto Rico Governor Wanda Vázquez Garced fired two more government officials Sunday over the latest ...

The Serralles family is one of those stories. Originally from Catalonia, Spain, they immigrated to Puerto Rico in the early 1800s, settled in Ponce and since 1865 have been producing rum.

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake shook Puerto Rico on Saturday morning, causing a landslide in the southern municipality of Peñuelas. The quake at 8:54 a.m. local time struck 8 miles southeast of ...

Titled “Nostalgia for My Island: Puerto Rican Painting from the Museo de Arte de Ponce, 1786- 1962,” it is the first show from the Puerto Rican museum to travel outside of the island and many ...

Amid COVID-19 and drought, Puerto Rico has registered over 9,000 tremors in the last six months, according to a meteorologist's summary. The island's seismic sequence started late last year.

Back then, Puerto Ricans chose the commonwealth option. Most politicians in Puerto Rico—and those people wired into the American social and economic system—now favor statehood.