Treasury Secretary Ángel Pantoja Rodríguez By THE STAR STAFF Gov. Jenniffer González Colón and Treasury Secretary Ángel L. Pantoja Rodríguez announced Monday that Puerto Rico has opened electronic filing for the 2025 individual income tax return, thereby launching the tax season earlier than last year. González Colón urged taxpayers to file by the April 15 deadline, noting that the Treasury Department will use information reported on returns to issue an additional relief paym

The island’s energy regulator said the new distribution of projects submitted by power grid operators “materially deviates” from the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s original allocation and exposes Puerto Rico to long-term risks if damaged assets remain unrepaired. (Facebook via LUMA Energy) Says grid operators’ joint plan deviates from original allocation By THE STAR STAFF The Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) ordered the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), LUM

A community group is urging the mayor of San Juan to meet with them amid renewed concerns over the future of the historic Normandie Hotel redevelopment and long‑delayed improvements to the Balneario (public beach) El Escambrón and the Sixto Escobar area -- public spaces that residents say have suffered years of neglect. By THE STAR STAFF The community collective Escambrón Unido is urging San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo to meet with them amid renewed concerns over the future

Bad Bunny performs during his residency in San Juan on Aug. 9, 2025. Young Puerto Ricans say the star has opened the world’s eyes to their challenges, and to the island’s fraught territorial relationship with the U.S. government. (Amy Lombard/The New York Times) By PATRICIA MAZZEI and LAURA N. PÉREZ SÁNCHEZ Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, better known as the superstar Bad Bunny, is a proud product of what Puerto Ricans call the “crisis generation”: those who grew up on the is

By THE STAR STAFF Popular Democratic Party (PDP) Secretary General Manuel Calderón Cerame, along with Rep. Swanny Enit Vargas and a group of young people, including students from the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) system, issued a call on Sunday to prevent what they said is the politicization of UPR.  The call concerned defending the autonomy of the university system, which is Puerto Rico’s main public university and social mobility project, and to promoting projects that be

Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez By THE STAR STAFF Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez and Rep. Víctor Parés Otero, who chairs the Government Committee in the lower chamber, have called the island’s 78 mayors to a briefing next week to outline a new legal framework that will allow municipalities — for the first time — to carry out power reconstruction and maintenance of streetlight po

Parque Colón in Aguada By THE STAR STAFF Aguada Mayor Christian Cortés Feliciano stated his opposition on Thursday to the possible transfer of Colón Park and gave assurances that he has been in contact with legislators and Gov. Jenniffer González Colón to prevent the land from being transferred to the municipality of Aguadilla. “Yesterday morning, Representative and alternate spokesperson for the New Progressive Party, Wilson Román, called a press conference for next Monday r

“Animal welfare starts with education,” Caguas Mayor William Miranda Torres said. By THE STAR STAFF As part of the municipal public policy “Caguas para Mi Mascota,” the Municipal Administration of Caguas on Thursday carried out an initiation and swearing-in of the School Animal Welfare Clubs, an innovative educational initiative aimed at promoting the management of animal welfare and responsibility for animals. The activity took place at the Ángel Ramos Foundation Cinema Thea