A cargo ship sails under Las Americas bridge through the Panama Canal, in Panama City, on March 13.

Maurice Hudson Thatcher is a gnarled, 92-year-old relic of Panama Canal construction days and still has a pioneer's proprietary interest in the Canal Zone, which Teddy Roosevelt leased from ...

Nicaragua's ambitious $50 billion mega canal project faced significant challenges and ultimately failed. This video explores the importance of the Panama Canal and details the proposed Nicaragua ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is visiting Panama in his first international trip. Here’s what to know about the Panama Canal and Trump’s claims about it.

For over 40 years, Capt. Efraín Hallax, 73, has been steering vessels through the canal, and he has seen it all, from a dictator’s fall to the rise of U.S. interest in retaking the waterway.

PANAMA CITY — Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth sought to reassure Panama that the United States recognizes its sovereignty over the national canal, amid President Donald Trump’s repeated ...

A contract to build a bridge over the canal, currently held by a Chinese firm, could be offered up. Finally, there is Panama’s huge copper mine, Cobre Panamá, which was shut down in November ...

Today, Panama holds special strategic significance for China because of the canal, but Beijing has been working to expand its influence in Latin America, and among developing countries more broadly.

A history of the Panama Canal — and why the US can't just take it back Unless he goes to war with Panama, Donald Trump can't reassert control over a canal the U.S. agreed to cede in the 1970s.

Panama President José Raúl Mulino said Thursday there will be no negotiation with the United States over ownership of the Panama Canal, and he hopes U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s ...

America’s Fraught, Sometimes Deadly, History With the Panama Canal Trump’s push to take back control of the strategic waterway stokes memories of a period of U.S. imperial ambition and violence ...

Panama’s conservative government is preparing a charm offensive to defuse tensions with the Trump administration over the vital Panama Canal, offering closer alignment to curb the flow of ...