PANAMA CITY (AP) – A look at the Panama Canal and its newly expanded locks, which are set for a test run this week and a formal launch June 26. Inaugurated on Aug. 15, 1914, the Panama Canal was ...

A tugboat leads the Neopanamax cargo ship, Cosco Shipping Panama, as it approaches the new Agua Clara locks, near the port city of Colon, Panama, Sunday June 26, 2016. The Chinese ship carrying more ...

The vital commercial artery depends on a supply of fresh water to move ships between the two oceans. Drought conditions that were once rare could become common by the end of the century, greatly ...

A Panama Canal cruise checks a lot of boxes for senior travelers: itineraries promise warm weather, a culturally-rich region and one of the world's great engineering spectacles.

AGUA CLARA, Panama (AP) — Engineers began flooding a newly enlarged section of the Panama Canal on Thursday as authorities prepare to test a series of new locks that will allow the waterway to ...

Teddy Roosevelt once declared the Panama Canal “one of the feats to which the people of this republic will look back with the highest pride.” More than a century later, Donald Trump is threatening to ...

A boat moves along the Chagres River, feeding into Gatún Lake. Credit: Katja Schulz In 2023, Panama experienced one of the worst droughts in its ...