Corrections Commissioner Vincent S. Attao and DOC director Gregory Castro have settled with William Kapono Mathewson and 13 other inmates to resolve the department’s alleged failure to provide them with adequate medical care. Mathewson is serving a 15-year prison term for...

A high voltage cable failure at Power Plant 4 in Puerto Rico, Saipan, last Friday afternoon triggered an islandwide power outage. The outage also interrupted water service to China Town, Upper Mihaville Estate in Garapan, and in As Falipe, according to the Commonwealth Utilities...

The Commonwealth Utilities Corp. is currently adopting many of its drinking water and wastewater master plan recommendations, improving 24-hour service in the short term, according to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency inspector John Tinger. Tinger stated, though, that CUC has...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has affirmed the federal court’s ruling that denied Derron G. Flores’ request to substitute him as plaintiff in the $40-million lawsuit that his late mother filed against a bank and its former employees. The Ninth Circuit judges...