Four Cummins generators totaling 10 megawatts arrived Aug. 26 for St. John standby service. The $8 million FEMA-funded project is expected to begin construction in September, with installation, testing and startup projected for co…
WAPA says all St. Thomas and St. John feeders were restored late Saturday after repeated blackouts and repairs to Unit 27. Isolated outages may remain, while reduced early-voting hours are still scheduled for Sunday following powe…
WAPA says outages could recur in the St. Thomas–St. John district while Units 15, 23 and Wärtsilä 5 remain offline. Unit 15 is targeted for January 2027, Unit 23 late next year, and Wärtsilä 5 has no firm repair timetable, officia…
…finds high-speed 5G available to 56.9% of the USVI population and just 12.9% on St. John, compared with 97.1% in Puerto Rico, even as carriers continue fiber and wireless upgrades not fully reflected in the federal data.
Citizen photographs from St. John and St. Thomas revealed a spider type previously absent from regional scientific records, among 13 findings covering Puerto Rico and the USVI. The USDA says the work demonstrates the value of publ…
…seeking a technical diving team to survey 28 deep-reef sites around St. Thomas and St. John at depths of roughly 98 to 164 feet, collecting reef-fish and habitat data for a broader U.S. Caribbean monitoring effort that continues t…
All St. Thomas–St. John public schools and Education district and state offices will open at 9 a.m. Thursday after an overnight blackout, partial restoration and another loss of generation.
A districtwide blackout hit St. Thomas and St. John Wednesday evening. WAPA restored several feeders before reporting all customers affected again early Thursday, citing lost generation at Randolph Harley Power Plant and giving no…
Dogwood Asset and Danny Jones accuse ABC Construction and Andrew Barlas of missing a two-year completion target, overbilling labor and materials, withholding paid-for materials and fraud. The defendants had not responded to the la…
Executive Branch offices in St. Thomas–St. John will close Friday, October 23, because of power interruptions, Government House announced. Essential personnel must report to work as scheduled, and all public schools in the distric…
All public schools and Education Department offices in the St. Thomas–St. John District will close Friday, October 23, as power grid instability continues. The department cited safety concerns and apologized for the short notice t…
Continued electrical grid instability has forced school closures in the St. Thomas-St. John District after an earlier 9 a.m. opening announcement. VIDE cited ongoing outages and student and employee safety as WAPA worked to restor…
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