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Honduras's National Congress approved two cross-border electricity contracts to buy 80 megawatts—50 from Panama and 30 from Nicaragua—at 8 cents per kilowatt-hour to help address the national power deficit.

San Pedro Sula has no operational wastewater treatment plants despite rapid urban growth, and with the water utility's concession ending in 2030, the construction industry is urging the municipality to secure and develop treatment sites before it is too late.

Minibuses in San Pedro Sula are parking illegally and picking up passengers outside authorized stops, accounting for about half of the city's 100–120 daily traffic violations and creating congestion and pedestrian hazards; authorities say limited staff struggle to monitor the city's 2,000 bus stops.

The Infrastructure and Transportation Ministry has opened competitive bidding for the expansion of the Helena Kulman Boulevard in El Progreso from the Obelisk to the Baprosa sector, with bids due August 3, financed entirely by national funds.

A $120 million cruise and cargo terminal planned for Omoa, approved by Congress in 2021 and expected to create over 2,000 jobs, is sparking debate over its environmental and economic impact on the coastal municipality.

Housing Secretary Francis Argeñal says most Honduran homes are built informally without technical oversight, leaving them structurally vulnerable to earthquakes, and the government is working to promote earthquake-resistant housing standards.

Entrepreneurs from El Progreso, Tela, and La Ceiba are demanding urgent construction of the CA-13 Tourism Corridor's four-lane La Barca–El Progreso segment, a long-delayed project they say is vital to regional commerce, logistics, and tourism.

Merchants and residents report that raw sewage overflow, crumbling streets, and years of neglect in a busy commercial sector of San Pedro Sula are driving away customers, damaging vehicles, and creating public-health hazards.

Genesis Energy's natural-gas plant in Puerto Cortés, meant to supply fuel to utility Brassavola and replace diesel generation, has missed its original November 2024 deadline by nearly two years with five rescheduled start dates and minimal visible construction progress.

Construction has begun on a L33.4 million (about $1.3 million) tunnel under the Rio Blanco bridge, part of San Pedro Sula's plan to ease daily congestion for more than 18,000 drivers on the Armenta corridor.

The government is deploying Concrete Canvas, a reinforced geomesh system, on levees in the Sula Valley to increase their resistance to flooding and give communities more time to evacuate before potential river overflows.

A new investigative report on the March 2025 Roatán plane crash that killed 12 confirms the Jetstream aircraft suffered hydraulic fluid loss before impact and operated without a required flight data recorder, but stops short of determining the probable cause.

Construction of a tunnel at Río Blanco in San Pedro Sula began Wednesday and is expected to take six months, affecting a corridor that serves over 20,000 families and about 18,000 daily vehicles; authorities recommend using four alternate routes to reduce traffic delays.

The government will begin delivering heavy machinery—part of a L3.5 billion (about $140 million) purchase—to all 298 municipalities in August to help local governments maintain rural roads and respond faster to weather-related emergencies.

The National Logistics Council is studying a new bypass road and expanded access routes to Puerto Cortés as the port prepares to nearly double its container capacity from 750,000 to 1.5 million TEU annually.

La Ceiba is experiencing acute water shortages as the Danto River drops to minimal levels and frequent power cuts damage pumping equipment, forcing residents to queue at public taps or wait for water during early mornings.

After more than a decade of failed promises, authorities have begun repairing the Danto River containment wall in western La Ceiba, a three-month project of retaining walls, riprap, and gabions to protect about ten flood-prone neighborhoods.

Honduras's largest power plant, El Cajón, which supplies about 30% of the nation's electricity, is at risk of forced shutdowns due to aging equipment past its useful life and delays in purchasing critical replacement parts, engineers warn.

A section of Second Street Northeast between Fifth and Sixth Avenue in San Pedro Sula is closed through Saturday for repairs to a burst water pipe that caused a street collapse.

Of 32 dike and flood-control projects underway across the Sula Valley ahead of the rainy season, only six are finished, 26 are roughly half-done, and several have not started, with the Infrastructure Ministry estimating completion in July.

Honduras is conducting laboratory testing on soil and rock samples from dyke-reconstruction projects in the Sula Valley to ensure materials can withstand flooding and river swelling, with tests including soil classification, permeability, and structural-load capacity.

Genesis Energías' liquefied natural gas plant in Puerto Cortés, contracted to supply power to Brassavola, faces its fourth consecutive delay and has not yet won Congressional approval, with operations now pushed to July despite missing a two-year construction timeline that ended in 2024.