The island took a hard hit from Hurricane Maria. — -- We've just returned from Vieques, a 134-square-mile island off Puerto Rico's eastern coast which suffered harrowing devastation from ...

It was only last month that Puerto Rico's electric company finally restored power to all customers -- all except those on one part of the commonwealth, the small island of Vieques. More than a year ...

Vieques is an island in Puerto Rico known for its warm weather and waters. Tourists flock to the island to soak up the sun at its beaches. And with 40 different beaches in Vieques, there are plenty to ...

Vieques and its smaller sister island of Culebra, a few miles north, are probably more deserving of the name “virgin islands” than the archipelago to the east and south bearing that name. Apart from a ...

VIEQUES, Puerto Rico — If a devastating hurricane's road to recovery is difficult in a small Caribbean island, it's even tougher if one lives in an island off the island, as residents of Vieques have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The family of a teenager whose death was blamed on the lack of a functioning hospital and lifesaving medical equipment in Vieques, ...

All it takes is a 15-minute flight and 8 miles of open ocean to lose the crowds, cruise ships and cookie-cutter chain resorts. Now, you’re in Vieques, a tiny islet off “mainland” Puerto Rico. It’s a ...

VIEQUES, Puerto Rico – Protests against U.S. Navy bombing exercises on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, so heated last year, seem to be muted this spring as the anti-war game movement has lost ...

VIEQUES, Puerto Rico – Not long ago, while working for star chef Alain Ducasse in New York, chef Dagan Lynn heard the restaurateur's group planned to open a Caribbean outpost of his Mix restaurant. "I ...