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The UMAPS water authority says work has resumed on the San José Dam under Mayor Juan Diego Zelaya's administration, and officials assert that if operational it would add over 40% to the city's water storage capacity.

Tegucigalpa's water authority plans to distribute water for 12 hours on four days each month, with water trucks supplying high-altitude areas where pipes cannot reach.

Health authorities declared a local epidemic in Olancho after more than 300 dengue cases accumulated there, with 45–50 new infections reported each week, and officials warned of circulation of serotype 3, a variant linked to more severe illness.

The opposition Partido Libre warns that proposed reforms to Honduras's electrical system would lead to the privatization of the state utility ENEE and threaten its existence.

The Institute of Property is printing 3.5 million new vehicle registration documents in 2026 with QR codes, unique serial numbers, watermarks, and two additional security measures to prevent forgery and ease verification by traffic authorities.

A heavy plume of Saharan dust will enter Honduras starting Saturday and linger through Monday, posing respiratory risks for people with heart and lung conditions, children, the elderly, and pregnant women.

Three years after Honduras severed ties with Taiwan to establish relations with China, the southern shrimp sector remains in deep crisis; exports fell from $285 million in 2022 to $237 million in 2024, with over 250 farms idle and thousands of jobs lost.

The government and domestic onion producers agreed to permit imports from July onward to maintain supply and stable prices as the eastern region's harvest winds down, while prioritizing local purchases during harvest seasons.

Honduras's Constitutional Chamber admitted a constitutional appeal by Roberto Contreras, president of the Liberal Party's executive committee, challenging the appointments of Francisco Ávila and Octavio Pineda and suspending those appointments pending the court's decision.

Officials and cultural representatives from the Bay Islands held a workshop to map and preserve the intangible cultural expressions of English-speaking Afro-Caribbean communities, with support from the Secretariat of Cultures, Arts and Peoples' Heritage.

Monitoring by the Roatan Marine Park reveals sargassum seaweed is spreading into northern and western zones of Roatán where concentrations were historically low, with climate instability making the algae's behavior harder to predict and manage.

A 6–3 US Supreme Court decision eliminating judicial review of TPS terminations threatens roughly 1.3 million immigrants from 17 countries, including Hondurans, with loss of deportation protection, a researcher says.

A geologist is investigating the possible cause of a warehouse collapse on Tegucigalpa's peripheral ring road, while the municipal authority prepares its own technical report on the incident.

Firefighters recovered the body of a third person killed in a major landslide in southern Tegucigalpa.

Isidro Rodríguez, a Honduran who entered the US on a humanitarian visa in 2015, was deported in June after undergoing open-heart surgery while in ICE custody; he returned to Honduras in a wheelchair and remains in recovery, while his family explores legal options for his return.

Officials from Honduras and Japan met at the presidential palace to discuss improving drinking water supply to the Central District and advancing a planned bypass road in Puerto Cortés, as part of broader cooperation on infrastructure and development.

Honduras imports over 40 million pounds of avocados annually at a cost of $12–15 million in foreign exchange, and producers say strengthening domestic cultivation across the country's 1,200 farms could reduce dependency and support the agricultural economy.

Óscar Amilcar Alvarado Velásquez, secretary of a peasant cooperative in Colón, was shot dead on June 22 in the Aguán Valley, marking another killing of a rural leader amid state militarization and a new law social groups say favors agribusiness over peasant land rights.

The director of ENEE's social development fund announced a goal of 500 rural electrification projects nationwide in 2026, with more than 60 already profiled for contracting to reach communities the official said have been neglected for years.

A Supreme Court magistrate joined interinstitutional meetings as an international donor delivered audiovisual equipment and specialized furniture needed to put the Gesell Chamber in the Francisco Morazán Criminal Court into operation.

The Central Bank auctioned $93.8 million in foreign currency on June 24, setting the weighted average exchange rate at L26.7170 per dollar for June 25.

A judge ordered Marvin Ramón Salgado held in pretrial detention on charges of animal cruelty and violence against women and threats allegedly targeting two women, with his initial hearing set for June 29.

The Public Ministry's human-trafficking unit conducted raids in Choloma, Cortés, to investigate alleged child sexual-abuse material crimes.

A community advocate said 55,000 documented Hondurans and countless undocumented ones face potential harm from a forthcoming US court decision on immigration, warning that families with mixed legal status are at particular risk.

Mario Hung, representing Honduras's Chinese Descendants Association, defended Asian-owned businesses operating in Honduras as legal and tax-compliant, countering a recent Congressional motion to supervise and regulate them.

Honduras's state food-supply agency Banasupro began a three-month program on June 24 to hold basic food prices steady and offer discounts of up to 10% through partnerships with private suppliers across its 121 nationwide stores.

The two main reservoirs supplying Tegucigalpa, Los Laureles and La Concepción, have fallen to 41.3% and 39% capacity respectively, prompting authorities to maintain a high-risk water alert and urge residents to conserve.

An unidentified man in his 30s was discovered dead beneath the Río Danto bridge in La Ceiba with his bicycle nearby; authorities suspect he may have fallen from the bridge overnight.

Starting June 25, Honduras will no longer require travelers departing the country to show proof of measles vaccination, though health officials continue to recommend the vaccine two weeks before travel given ongoing regional transmission.

The chief of Honduras's fire service warned that rainfall in the coming hours could force suspension of rescue and evaluation work at a landslide on Tegucigalpa's Anillo Periférico, as ground moisture risks further collapse and endangers rescue teams and nearby structures.