Because they must live and work in thedebilitating tropics, U.S. civil servants in the Panama Canal Zone havelong enjoyed certain privileges. Among them: 25% pay differential,income-tax exemption ...

The most spectacular moment of a transit of the Panama Canal’s great Gaillard ... s Hill will make a formidable dam if it falls. Canal Zone Governor John S. Seybold hopes to head off a slide.

The improvements throughout the canal zone bring unprecedented numbers of wives and children to Panama. Over 1,000 workers' families now live in the canal zone. Twenty-two tons of dynamite are ...

Frankie Avalon and his wife of 60 years Kathryn Diebel share eight kids Frankie Avalon has been married to his wife Kathryn ...

the US got control in perpetuity of the Panama Canal Zone. But after decades of campaigning by Panamanian nationalists, the US agreed, in 1977, to a staged handover. On the last day of 1999 ...

Consider this. Shipping companies that cannot get their ships through the drought-damaged Panama Canal now send them via the ...

The number of ships allowed through the drought-hit Panama Canal each day will be increased thanks to signs of an improvement in water levels, authorities said Monday. The interoceanic channel is ...

The $5.25 billion expansion project, to open in early 2015, includes the installation of new locks that will allow ships to pass carrying three times the volume of cargo carried today. The ...

The improvements throughout the canal zone bring unprecedented numbers of wives and children to Panama. Over 1,000 workers' families now live in the canal zone. Twenty-two tons of dynamite are ...

The authority that runs the canal is looking at ways to conserve the water it needs to stay open. The new restrictions will likely further increase the cost of shipping goods around the world.