This morning will see spells of showery rain push in from the east. These will turn to sleet and snow over higher ground. In the afternoon, the precipitation will turn lighter and patchier. Breezy ...

Velma Alderman Sowerby died peacefully in her sleep at the age of 91 on Saturday, February 1, 2025. Velma was born to Arthur and Grace Alderman on December 10, 1933, in Valrico, Florida ...

Hong Kong CNN — Donald Trump has begun his second term as president by ramping up pressure on Panama – threatening to “take back” the Panama Canal and ... highway bridge over the canal ...

Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino on Thursday rejected U.S. claims that American warships and boats can transit the Panama Canal without paying a standard fee. In a weekly news conference ...

Mulino said he had told U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Wednesday that he could neither set the fees to transit the canal nor exempt anyone from them and that he was surprised by the U.S ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has walked back the State Department’s assertion that Panama “has agreed to no longer charge fees” to US government vessels transiting the Panama Canal ...

During meetings with Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino, Rubio warned of China’s “influence and control” near the canal’s logistics chain. In response, Mulino announced that Panama ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has since rowed back on his department's claim, external, but called the fee for American vessels "absurd" due to a treaty binding the US to protect the canal if ...

Part of a road in Sowerby Bridge that has only just re-opened after being closed for 18 months has been shut again.