Total blackout strikes St. Thomas and St. John in the US Virgin Islands twice this weekend ^17.2%

AP News - 5/31/2026, 4:34 PM

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A total blackout hit St. Thomas and St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands early Sunday, the second this weekend as the U.S. territory struggles with increasingly frequent outages. The Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority said in a statement that the outages stemmed from the loss of generation at a power... more