Monthly Archives: October, 2015

Recent activity at Rincón de la Vieja Volcano has led the Red Cross to mobilize a small team to assess possible risks of flooding and damage to bridges over the Pénjamo River.

Suspended FIFA president Sepp Blatter claimed on Friday that the $2 million payment he made to UEFA president Michel Platini was a "gentleman's agreement."

New surveillance footage of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán's July 11 escape featured for the first time audio from the maximum-security prison cell near Mexico City.

Costa Rica’s government submitted an official report Thursday evening to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights about its progress in legalizing in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures.

A couple of nudists looking for complete privacy in a Costa Rica property learn they don't need nearly as much acreage as they thought.

They sometimes have to borrow jet skis and paddle out on boards to make rescues because the government won't fund them, yet Tamarindo lifeguards are still saving lives and making a difference.

At 47,588 hectares, Braulio Carrillo is the largest national park in Central Costa Rica and home to 6,000 different plant species, more than 500 migratory and endemic bird species, and other fauna.

A roundup of events taking place October 16-22.

Tonight's auction at the National Gallery, housed within the Children's Museum in downtown San José, will feature more than 100 art pieces by different renowned artists, including Man Yu Fung paintings, and raise money for children's charities.

More than 200 heavily armed police officers and tactical units began swarming several high-crime neighborhoods in Costa Rica's capital on Thursday in an effort to take back city streets that have become overrun by dangerous criminals, authorities said.