Guatemala news headlines

The gaping chasm opened above an area where limestone is mined underground.

Schools have been closed amid plunging air quality in the Central American nation.

This box looks like PR for the movie sweeping the globe, but it hides a much darker truth.

A multiagency team spent more than 30 years searching for Mario R Garcia, 50, before a lead pointed to a coastal town in Guatemala.

Seven years after he first appeared on their radar, a Queensland Police crack child sexual abuse unit has tracked down a suspected "prolific" paedophile who allegedly abused at least eight young victims and funneled photos and videos of his abuse into nefarious dark web networks over a decade.

An Honduran man was charged with harbouring after he was found keeping watch of more than two dozen people who authorities say were being held in a Houston home as part of a human smuggling operation.

Court-appointed lawyers said that they have been unable to find parents of 545 children who were separated at the U.S. border with Mexico early in the Trump administration.

Hospitals in Guatemala say they have had to bury dozens of COVID-19 victims who have never been identified.

Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands have signed a deal to access 400 million doses of an experimental coronavirus vaccine.

At least 44 migrants who were on the same deportation flight from the US to Guatemala this week have tested positive for COVID-19.

Two Guatemalans were arrested after an investigation into an international money laundering syndicate led to a storage unit in Sydney's inner west, where $1.25 million cash was found.

A bus and a truck have collided in eastern Guatemala, killing at least 21 people and wounding a dozen more.

President Donald Trump announced today that Guatemala is signing an agreement to restrict asylum applications to the US from Central America.

An English tourist whose body was found near a Guatemala highland lake popular with travelers died of hemorrhaging resulting from a traumatic brain injury, according to an autopsy report completed Tuesday.

Catherine Shaw, 23, walked out of her hotel in Guatemala to see the sunrise last week. She never returned.

US President Donald Trump claims that two Guatemalan children who died in custody were already ill, yet both young migrants passed initial health screenings by border officials.

US immigration officials have defended their actions in the detention of a seven-year-old Guatemalan girl who died two days after she and her father were taken into custody.

About 4,000 residents fled Guatemala’s Volcano of Fire as red-hot rock and ash spewed into the sky.

Before-and-after satellite photos show the destruction wrought by deadly flows of super-heated materials and debris from Sunday's eruption of the Volcano of Fire in Guatemala.  

Volcano experts say there’s nothing to show there has been a surge in volcanic eruptions - despite the deaths of almost 100 people in Guatemala and an entire suburb swallowed in Hawaii.

Guatemala’s Volcano of Fire has erupted again causing thousands to flee from their homes and setting off panic even in areas where the latest evacuation order does not apply.

Tonnes of toxic ash has fallen on towns around the erupting Volcano of Fire, with the growing death toll expected to climb.

A volcano eruption has killed at least 25 people and injured more than 100 in the Central American country of Guatemala.

Researchers using a high-tech aerial mapping technique have found tens of thousands of previously undetected Mayan houses, buildings, defense works and pyramids in the dense jungle of Guatemala's Peten region, suggesting that millions more people lived there than previously thought.

Guatemala is dealing with two natural disasters which struck in quick succession, as video emerges of a mountain road being covered by what appears to be a waterfall of dirt and rock.

A fire in a government-run children's shelter in Guatemala killed 31 teenage girls, medical officials said Thursday, raising the roll after a number of patients saved from the facility died of severe burns.

Guatemala's Volcano of Fire erupted Saturday, spewing lava and sending up ash plumes that rained down ashes on nearby communities and could reach the capital, the civil protection authorities said.

A Guatemalan teenager has been gunned down while playing Pokemon Go.