Costa Rica News

Following a series of reports by the Telenoticias, Channel 7's news team, during this past as a reporter with hidden camera infiltrated a "pension" in Tibas that was a front for a "prostibulo" , the ...

Sitting on the veranda on an autumn morning, I am stirred from reading by a loud boom.

Staring up into the rainforest canopy, it's almost like looking into a living Impressionist painting, your eyes dazzled by the flash of colors, your ears picking up the extroverted squawks and screeches of ...

Planned by talented designers, the development boasts contemporary architecture inspired by the concepts of tropical minimalism and is one of the few beach front properties in Costa Rica that is fully titled.

RIPON - Turn about is fair play when it comes to sharing spiritual life with a different culture.

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Costa Rica is saying goodbye to its 84-year-old insurance monopoly, a monopoly held by the Institutor Nacional de Seguros , as it opens the industry to national and international competition.

Teens spent eight days in Limon, Costa Rica, to fulfill a mission. Coming from rural North Carolina, the teenagers knew how to handle the heat and humidity of the Central American country.

The teens painted the kitchen of St. Marks Episcopal Church, which adults of Good Shepherd built last year. The youth’s main purpose wasn’t to just paint a kitchen but to make a positive impact on the youth in Costa Rica.

Previous to their Costa Rican trip, the church members went to New Orleans to help wit area recovery after Hurricane Katrina.

Real Salt Lake announced Friday afternoon that Deportivo Saprissa of Costa Rica will take on RSL next month in conjunction with the club's Pioneer Day festivities.

San Jose, Jul 1 The price of the bottle of milk, one of the food staples in the family basket, had an increase of 7 percent in Costa Rica.

Recently, in Playa Samara, fresh milk was difficult to find in the grocery store while shelf-milk, stored at room temperature, was readily available. In the United States, milk production cannot keep pace with demand. This affects international exports of milk products in markets such as Costa Rica.

The Volcan Arenal and Volcan Turrialba are under the watchful eyes of international experts who want to discover its secrets. The volcanoes create a fascinating backdrop for study.

A recent article in the US-based Chicago Tribune talks about visiting the volcanoes in Costa Rica.

During a four-day excursion across Costa Rica's interior, I often had the feeling that I was watching a special-effects-laden movie instead of experiencing reality. Maybe it was suddenly going from the gray world of Minnesota winter to the saturated colors of the equatorial tropics, but everything—the exploding volcano, the cloud forest as viewed while flying down a steel cable, a flock of iridescent hummingbirds—seemed too extravagant to be true.

The Dominican and Costa Rican governments agreed to strengthen cooperation in migratory issues and to coordinate action to control prostitution and the traffic of people.

Sunbathing tree frogs from Costa Rica may hold the key to understanding how a deadly fungus is wiping out amphibians around the world.

Spanking kids in Costa Rica is a no-no, as legislators voted this week to ban parents from spanking their children.

Milanes Antes Up Bail Luis Milanes, accused of defrauding his investors of more than us$200 million dollars, yesterday complied with a court order on Friday to post six properties valued at us$12 million ...

Costa Rican coffee farmers are facing threats from climate change but the rising temperatures are also expanding high-altitude regions where the country's most prized beans are grown.

Digicel Group has set its sights on Costa Rica, a market that telecommunications watchers say is ripe for exploration by big players, following passage of new legislation that paves the way for competition in ...

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What was once home to monkey's, turtles and other rare wildlife, a beautiful stretch of coastline in northwest Costa Rica is now developing so fast that it is tarnishing the country's reputation as a ...

President Oscar Arias' executive order to green light a gold mine a few miles from the Nicaraguan border has upset the Nicaraguan government and united environmentalists in both nations.