Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. St. Petersburg ... spared catastrophic storm surge from Hurricane Milton. Here's why. Florida power outage map: Nearly 2 million without power amid ...

Parts of the island are still rebuilding today. Here’s a look back at some of the devastation in Puerto Rico caused by Hurricane Maria. PUERTO RICO - OCTOBER 18: Destroyed buildings are viewed ...

A student whose life was turned upside down by Hurricane Maria is persevering. — -- Hurricane Maria smashed his college and destroyed his home, but that hasn't stopped one medical student ...

Days before the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Maria killing thousands in Puerto Rico, another storm clobbered the island archipelago this week and set back its halting progress toward ...

Five years ago this month, Hurricane Maria formed in the Atlantic Ocean, creating one of the U.S.’s most devastating humanitarian disasters of the 21st century. The storm started off as a ...

Visit Insider's homepage for more stories. Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico four years ago last month, but to Ismael Pagan Gonzalez, those three weeks post-disaster when he couldn't get in ...

To understand how Hurricane Maria affected El Yunque, Morton is taking a 1,000-foot view—literally. In March 2017, he participated in a series of island-wide aerial surveys to map the 3D ...

Puerto Rico was ravaged by Hurricane Maria one year ago next month. Since the island's long recovery began, the government and independent institutions have worked to figure out exactly how many ...

The Hurricane Maria memorial is designed to be an international symbol of Puerto Rican resiliency. (Courtesy of Governor Cuomo's office) Located on Chambers Street overlooking Rockefeller Park ...

Hurricane Maria, which struck two weeks later, was a different story. The strongest hurricane to make direct landfall in Puerto Rico in almost a century, Maria brought wind speeds over 200 ...

Hurricane Maria dropped more rain on Puerto Rico than any storm to hit the island since 1956, a feat due mostly to the effects of human-caused climate warming, new research finds. Hurricane Maria ...

Then Hurricane Maria slammed the island with 155-mph winds and coastal flooding that rose to 6 feet within 30 minutes of landfall. The storm caused the longest power blackout in U.S. history.