A strike that paralyzed the nation’s largest psychiatric hospital ended last week after negotiators reached a compromise.
From May 16-23, approximately 100 workers of the...
Costa Rica is one step closer to banning smoking in public places, including bars.
The Legislative Assembly ratified the World Health Organization’s Tobacco Control...
It’s been a rough couple of months for Public Security Minister Janina del Vecchio.
The former legislator with the National Liberation Party (PLN) and diplomat...
High school students butted heads with Education Minister Leonardo Garnier over whether to cut a series of national exams required for graduation.
Garnier didn’t blink.
After...
The nation’s criminal appeals court unanimously upheld Osvaldo Villalobos’ 2007 fraud conviction this week.
Enrique Villalobos, the other member of “The Brothers” operation that ran...
A TACA plane crashed during landing in Honduras last Friday, killing five people, including Nicaraguan banker Harry Brautigam, president of the Central American Bank...
Peter Cianchette, a Maine businessman active in Republican Party politics, arrived here late last month as the new U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica.
He replaces...
In the fight over a pipeline that would draw drinking water from Sardinal, a small inland village in northern Guanacaste, to feed uncontrolled coastal...
