If you follow the news in Costa Rica with any degree of regularity, you’ll know that crime is in the zeitgeist. As with any nation there are many flavors of crime in Costa Rica. Corruption is usually ...

Most people arrive in Costa Rica with a very specific picture in their head. Usually they imagine empty beaches, quiet jungle lodges, smooth roads, endless wildlife sightings, and a slow, inexpensive ...

Malcolm-Jamal Warner died on Sunday, July 20 after drowning while on a family vacation in Costa Rica. After being rescued, he was given treatment by the Costa Rican Red Cross Alex Ross is a Staff ...

Warner died Sunday, July 20, while swimming on a family vacation in Costa Rica Carson Blackwelder is a TV Writer/Editor at PEOPLE. His work has previously appeared on Good Morning America/ABC News ...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Conservative populist Laura Fernández won Costa Rica’s presidency, promising to continue the aggressive reorienting of the Central American nation’s politics started by her ...

In southern Costa Rica, local lore has told of two sunken pirate ships just off the coast in the shallow Caribbean waters. Well, there are sunken ships there, and they do date to the early 1700s. But ...

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Change is in the air. The threatening, gray, rain-filled clouds of September and October are starting to give way to the pleasing, fluffy, white clouds of dry season. That means high season is right ...

As recently as 2023, the term pura vida finally entered the dictionary of the Real Academia Española, which defines the words and phrases used across the Spanish-speaking world. This particular ...

Tributes are pouring in for Roland Garcia, a family man and a longtime employee of Ski Santa Fe who died earlier this month after he was caught in a rip current while swimming during a vacation in ...

Two shipwrecks in Costa Rica were long thought to be sunken pirate ships. New research shows they were actually Danish slave ships. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with archaeologist Andreas Bloch. In ...