Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. beach on Vieques island Not far from the mainland of Puerto, lies a sister island where you can go to disconnect. Vieques, also ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The island of Vieques, Puerto Rico, for decades had all the makings of a tropical paradise, save for one thing: The roar of bombs ...

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A protest over a rate increase has forced Puerto Rico’s government to cancel ferry rides between the U.S. territory and the tiny island of Vieques that is popular with tourists.

At the María Simmons school, hundreds lined up on a recent morning to receive their COVID-19 shots in Vieques, an island off Puerto Rico’s eastern shores. Classrooms were outfitted with injection ...

Vieques (pronounced Vee-ek-ez) is located about 8 miles off the east coast of mainland Puerto Rico, one of two inhabited sister islands – the other is Culebra – easily accessible by ferry or small ...

This octagon-shaped house on a private 5-acre site stands high above the ocean on the north shore of the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, which is known for its great beaches. “It’s an iconic house on ...

>> MANY OF THE BEACHES HAVE TWO NAMES. IT IS ALSO BLUE BEAC H.THERE IS ALSO A YELLOW BEACH, PURPLE AND GREEN BEACH. NAMES LEFT OVER FROM THE DAYS WHEN THE NAVY WAS USING THE ISLAND FOR MILITARY ...

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 ...

Looking down into the undisturbed black water during a new moon, tiny pinpoints of light sparkle back, almost like a star field below matches the star field above. Each paddle stroke creates a ...

WASHINGTON — The Navy will expand its use of bombing ranges in Florida and elsewhere on the U.S. mainland -- and may close Roosevelt Roads naval station in Puerto Rico -- after it abandons its ...