"Every time there's a crisis on the island of Puerto Rico or Cuba, we are always present," Javier Ferrer, a native Puerto Rican living in Houston, said.
A family of five who travels the open seas to help crisis relief groups say when they needed help themselves, Houston answered the call.
A Houston-area school district is hoping to fill the need for Spanish-speaking teachers by aiming its recruiting efforts nearly a thousand miles away.
An island-wide blackout has hit Puerto Rico, which is struggling with an increasingly unstable power grid nearly seven months after Hurricane Maria hit the U.S. territory.
Harvey, Irma, Maria and Nate are storm names that don't bear repeating.
There were joy-filled reunions Saturday in New Jersey between people who fled Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, and left an important part of their families.