The U.S. State Department accused China of violating Panama’s sovereignty over a port dispute in the Central American nation, triggering another fierce back-and-forth on Wednesday as the Chinese government called the Trump administration hypocritical.

Businesses have doled out up to $4 million to send ships through the Panama Canal while trying to avoid the Iran war's risks and effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

The Panama Canal's administrator says the war in the Middle East and higher fuel prices make the canal more appealing for shippers.

A subsidiary of a Hong Kong-based company that has lost control of two critical ports on the Panama Canal says it is seeking $2 billion of compensation in damages from Panama over its “illegal” takeover of the ports.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will hold a news conference in Panama City.

A first-of-its-kind report suggests that Central Florida may be paving the way when it comes to poor roads.

Panamanian investigators have carried documents out of offices belonging to a Hong Kong-owned company that operated ports at either end of the Panama Canal until its concession was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court last month.

Hong Kong protests after Panama takes control of two key ports on the Panama Canal once run by a Hong Kong company.

Panama has ordered the occupation of two key ports at the ends of the Panama Canal.

The world economy has proven surprisingly durable in the face of President Donald Trump’s trade wars, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Tuesday, upgrading its outlook for global and U.S. economic growth this year.

A report this month suggests that a city in the Sunshine State may be paving the way when it comes to poor roads.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will hold a news conference in Panama City.

A 32-year-old Panama City man walking across State Road 50 in Christmas was struck by a pickup truck and killed, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was in Panama City Friday to promote the efforts of the state’s law enforcement to crack down on undocumented immigrants in the Panhandle.

A Hong Kong conglomerate that’s selling ports at the Panama Canal says it may seek a Chinese investor to join a consortium of buyers.

There are plenty of pop-culture horror icons, such as Freddy Kreuger and Jason Vorhees. But what about frogs?

The Panamanian Civil Aviation Authority says that Panama and Venezuela will resume commercial flights nearly a year after suspending them when they broke off diplomatic relations.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed the Boater Freedom Act into law, legislation that aims to improve relations between boaters and law enforcement as well as boost marina programs throughout Florida.

Former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli has left the Nicaraguan embassy in Panama City where he had sought refuge more than a year ago after the courts upheld a prison sentence against him for money laundering and headed to Colombia where he has received political asylum.

Defense officials say Dan Caldwell, a senior adviser to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, has been placed on administrative leave and was escorted out of the Pentagon by security.

Panama’s comptroller authority says an audit found irregularities in the renewal of a 25-year port concession in the interoceanic canal and it would request an investigation into the authorization of the contract to a Hong Kong company.

Migrants from Afghanistan, Russia, Iran and China deported from the United States and dropped into limbo in Panama are hopping door-to-door at embassies and consulates desperately seeking asylum in any country that would accept them.

Panama has released dozens of migrants deported from the United States who were held for weeks in a remote camp on the condition that they would leave the Central American nation in 30 days.

Panama’s Security Minister Frank Ábrego says Panama will begin the process of issuing humanitarian passes to 112 migrants deported from the United States who have been held in a remote camp in the Darien region since last month.

A deportee from the United States detained in a camp in rural Panama, among a hundred who refused to return to their countries, has described waiting in limbo under “harsh conditions” and cut off from access to legal council and other rights.

Panama is detaining in a hotel nearly 300 people from various countries deported by the United States, not allowing them to leave while waiting for international authorities to organize a return to their countries.

Panama's president has said his country has received the first U.S. flight carrying deportees from other nations as the Trump administration takes Panama up on its offer to act as a stopover for expelled migrants.

It’s a brand-new year, but that’s not stopping Florida’s ever-popular grocery chain from expanding with even more store openings.

Central Florida has been submerged completely in dense fog since the middle of last weekend, and it likely won't be departing as quick as ordinarily.

Panama President José Raúl Mulino says there will be no negotiation with the United States over ownership of the Panama Canal.

President Donald Trump’s insistence that he wants to have the Panama Canal back under U.S. control is feeding nationalist sentiment and worry in Panama, home to the critical trade route and a country familiar with U.S. military intervention.

A Panamanian national holiday remembering the killing of 21 protesters by police and U.S. troops in 1964 is taking on new resonance this year as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump threatens to take back control of the Panama Canal.

Self-exiled Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González is rallying regional support for the opposition's claims that he won the July election against President Nicolás Maduro.

There are plenty of pop-culture horror icons, such as Freddy Kreuger and Jason Vorhees. But what about frogs?

Tropical Storm Helene is forecast to rapidly intensify, almost doubling in strength in less than 36 hours.

A Florida Panhandle high school football player has died after collapsing during a game.

Panama has deported 29 Colombians on a flight that the government says is the first paid for by the United States under an agreement the two countries signed in July.

José Raúl Mulino has been sworn in as Panama’s next president, facing pressure to slow migration through the Darien Gap that connects his country with Colombia.

A judge has acquitted 28 people accused of money laundering in an international case known as the Panama Papers.

In a historic and tumultuous election in Panama, José Raúl Mulino has landed in the role of president-elect despite not even expecting to be the candidate a few months ago.

José Raúl Mulino, the stand-in for former President Ricardo Martinelli in Panama's presidential election, is on his way to becoming the new leader of the Central American nation.

Panama’s Supreme Court has rejected a constitutional challenge to the candidacy of leading presidential contender José Raúl Mulino.

The public portion of a Panamanian trial of more than two-dozen associates accused of helping some of the world’s richest people hide their wealth has come to an unexpectedly speedy conclusion.

Eight years after 11 million leaked secret financial documents revealed how some of the world’s richest people hide their wealth, more than two dozen defendants are on trial in Panama for their alleged roles.

Panama has started the trial of 27 people charged in the worldwide “Panama Papers” money laundering case.

A severe drought that began last year has forced authorities to slash ship crossings by 36% in the Panama Canal, one of the world’s most important trade routes.

Multiple tornadoes touched down this week amid severe storms in the Florida Panhandle, according to the National Weather Service.

While no deaths have been reported in Florida, there have been several injuries.

As countries at the COP28 climate talks are wrangling over deadlines for lowering their carbon dioxide emissions, a Danish-led group of countries has decided to set the ultimate goal: to remove more CO2 from the atmosphere than they emit.

2023's Atlantic hurricane season is starting to wind down.

Panama's president has signed into law an indefinite moratorium on new mining concessions.

Airport security at Panama City's Tocumen International Airport searched a Copa airline flight bound for Tampa, Florida, for a suspected bomb, only to find an adult diaper.

A man convicted of killing two women he met at beach bars in the Florida Panhandle in 1996 is set to be executed.

The managers of the Panama Canal say they expect income from the waterway to drop, after authorities were forced to limit the number of ships passing through each to 32 due to a lack of rainfall.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held a news conference Thursday morning at a marina in Panama City.

Florida has executed a man convicted of breaking into a woman's home and stabbing her to death in 1986.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called on the Legislature Monday to forbid the use of digital currency in the state.

In a tropical forest beside the Panama Canal, two endangered, black-handed spider monkeys swing about their wire enclosure balanced by their long tails.

With dashed dreams and empty hands, hundreds of Venezuelan migrants are stranded in Panama’s capital looking for a way home after surviving the crossing of the Darien Gap only to find that a United States policy change had closed the border to them.

A 4-year-old child died in a fall from a resort balcony in Florida, according to police.

A Florida missing child alert was issued Wednesday for a 15-year-old girl out of Springfield, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

A man broke into a Panama City zoo Tuesday afternoon before assaulting employees and visitors, Bay County deputies said.

Hundreds of residents forced to evacuate as blazes in the Florida Panhandle threatened their homes have been allowed to return, even as three wildfires in the region have grown to more than 29,000 acres.

Officials say vetFirefighters continued to battle the 12,000-acre (about 4,860-hectare) Bertha Swamp Road fire and the 841-acre (340-hectare) Adkins Avenue fire, which have threatened homes and forced residents of at least 1,100 houses in Bay County, Florida. erans forced to evacuate a nursing home by a Florida Panhandle wildfire have been allowed to return home.

Huge wildfires in the Florida Panhandle have forced veterans at a 120-bed nursing home to evacuate.

The governor issued Executive Order 22-54 to declare a state of emergency in Bay County after the wildfires engulfed eight homes and led to the evacuation of thousands more, with weather conditions expected to maintain a moderate drought in the area for at least the next three days, according to the order.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will hold a news conference Thursday morning at Florida State University Panama City.

The resupply spacecraft is filled with nearly 5,000 pounds of scientific experiments and other cargo.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hands Panama City leaders a $20.4 million grant for post-hurricane repairs of the city’s water, sewer and stormwater systems.

A car driving in the wrong direction in the Florida Panhandle hit another vehicle, causing it to go up in flames and killing four people, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

An Amber Alert has been issued for two children missing out of Panama City Saturday.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is sticking with his ban on mask mandates inside Florida public schools.

Gov. Ron DeSantis clapped back at President Joe Biden’s comments on Florida’s response to its current surge in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, saying “I am standing in your way” in regards to mandates.

One Monday in June in an upscale neighborhood of Panama City, people noticed something odd: Strange cars were coming and going from the Coco del Mar Suites, a nondescript three-story residential building surrounded by luxury oceanside high-rises.

Panama has raised capacity on public transportation across the country, a day after celebrating the first day in 14 months without a COVID-19 death.

Florida will spend hundreds of millions of dollars over the next few years to protect against coastal flooding under a bill signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.

As recovery boats waited for SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft carrying four astronauts returning home, one animal had a front-row seat for the splashdown.

Plunging through the Earth’s atmosphere and splashing down by moonlight SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft successfully returned three American and one Japanese astronaut to Earth following six months in space.

Ron DeSantis hinted at plans to lower the vaccine eligibility age soon but didn’t share specifics during a news conference in Panama City on Thursday. Some Central Florida counties said they are seeing indicators that it may be time to expand eligibility across the state. Ad“We still have a few appointments at the end of next week but those are going pretty quickly,” Harris said. He adds they are seeing cancellations, which causes them to have leftover doses at the end of the day. To keep up with the latest news on the pandemic, subscribe to News 6′s coronavirus newsletter and go to ClickOrlando.com/coronavirus.

ORLANDO, Fla. – If you have plans to take lunch outside Monday afternoon, you should be good to go. Other than a stray shower through the first half of the day, Monday afternoon should be dry and warm, with temperatures topping out in the lower 80s in Orlando. There will still be a breeze, this time out of the south, but it won’t be as windy as the weekend. The highest rain chances come later in the evening and overnight. Highs by Thursday and Friday return to the lower 80s.

PANAMA CITY, Fla. – The Bay County Republican Party said it won’t recognize President-elect Joe Biden as legitimate unless President Donald Trump concedes and acknowledges that the 2020 election was fair. The Florida Panhandle organization's executive committee voted last month, deciding that its officials should not cooperate with Biden's administration. The organization said in a statement that the future of the Republican Party lies in Florida and that its members have an obligation to protect its conservative values, according to the Pensacola News Journal. Tonight’s (Dec. 7) vote makes clear that the Bay County Republican Party is prepared to continue to stand with President Trump and leaders that hold the conviction to fight for the American people and our Constitution," Bay County Republican Party Chairman Debbie Wood said in a written statement. The resolution, which was widely circulated on social media, notes the party would only refer to Biden’s administration as “President-imposed” without Trump’s concession and will encourage Bay County Republican officials to not cooperate with “an illegitimate Biden Administration on any matters that infringe upon the Constitutionally protected rights of our citizens.”

PANAMA CITY, Fla. – A newborn baby died after being left inside a hot car in Florida’s Panhandle, sheriff’s officials said. The Bay County Sheriff’s Office offered few details about the case on Thursday. Rescue crews were called to a home in Panama City late Wednesday after the baby was found inside the car. Sheriff’s officials said the baby had possibly been left inside the vehicle for several hours. The Sheriff’s Office is conducting an investigation, and will be speaking to witnesses to establish a timeline of events.

Ron DeSantis was in Panama City Monday afternoon to announce a program that will provide $15,000 loans to help residents find housing after Hurricane Michael. DeSantis said that come Sept. 1, the state will relaunch the Hurricane Michael loan recovery program to provide residents with $15,000 loans to assist with housing costs. “Expected to launch September 1, the Hurricane Michael Recovery Loan Program will offer below market 30-year fixed rate first mortgages coupled with up to $15,000 in down payment (DPA) and closing cost assistance for qualified homebuyers. DPA loans will be zero percent interest, non-amortizing and forgivable at 20 percent per year over five years. The DPA loan is fully forgivable if an active duty serviceperson is officially reassigned and must sell the home,” it read.