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Honduras opens its first embassy in Beijing, China, after breaking off relations with Taiwan in March.
2023-06-11

Honduras begins a partial state of exception in most of the country as part of an attempt to reduce the amount of violent organized crime.
2022-12-6

Hurricane Eta is expected to rapidly increase within the next 18 hours according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC). The storm is moving in the Caribbean Sea towards Nicaragua bringing "devastating conditions". A hurricane warning has been issued for Nicaragua and Honduras.
2020-11-2

Around two dozen heavily armed men dressed in military fatigues storm a court building in El Progreso, north-western Honduras, freeing Alexander Mendoza, a senior leader of the MS-13 gang and killing four police officers. Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández offers a $80,000 reward for information leading to Mendoza's recapture.
2020-02-13

South Korea signs free trade agreements with the Central American countries of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama to eliminate duties on about 95% of traded goods and services.
2018-02-21

A magnitude 7.6 earthquake strikes north of Honduras, resulting in tsunami warnings in the Caribbean.
2018-01-9

At least 13 people are killed at the San Pedro Sula prison in Honduras.
2012-03-29

Senior prison officials are suspended and an investigation is opened into the cause of a deadly prison fire in Comayagua, Honduras, in which over 350 inmates died.
2012-02-16

Security expert and anti-corruption activist Alfredo Landaverde is killed in Honduras, a day after journalist Luz Marina Paz Villalobos is killed, leading to a ban on a motorcycle passengers.
2011-12-7

A journalist, Luz Marina Paz Villalobos, is killed in Honduras becoming the 17th journalist shot in the past two years.
2011-12-6