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New app offers updates on Costa Rica tides, wind conditions

The app displays animated graphics and maps showing wave height, direction and duration, and data on average wind speed, gust strength and direction.

Costa Rica’s Guayabo National Monument reopens to tourists after flooding

Visitors' access to Guayabo National Monument reopened Tuesday after being closed since June 27 due to damage caused by flooding in the Caribbean region in recent weeks. Located...

Costa Rican students’ insect-based foods take top spots at international competition

Larva patties and cricket cookies are the projects that earned two groups of students from the University of Costa Rica’s Food Technology School first and second place among 59 nutritional food proposals from around the world.

Lawmakers to discuss eliminating prison sentences for blocking roads during protests

Lawmakers revived the bill to replace prison time with monetary fines for blocking roads the day before private chauffeurs or "porteadores" protested a new special taxi regulation by blocking public roads across the country, snarling traffic.

Costa Rican company begins exporting wood-burning stoves

Many people in Costa Rica's rural areas still use heavy, wood-burning stoves. But they're now becoming a luxury item for preparing meals on special occasions, as well as a collector's item for vintage decoration.

Increased rainfall expected over Costa Rica this week

Heavy rain is expected to hit Costa Rica again this week as tropical wave number 15 arrives in the country this season.

ICE unions announce strike, protest later this month

Union leaders say they expect some 10,000 workers will march from ICE's facilities in La Sabana to the Legislative Assembly on July 27.

Costa Rica’s Solís considers reinstating IVF by executive decree

“We are reaching a point where we will be forced to make a decision. That includes the possibility of passing IVF by an executive decree so that the country does not have to face another sanction,” Solís told reporters.

Costa Rica tourism entrepreneurs report millions lost to bad weather, street protests

Flooding in recent weeks and road blockades staged by porteadores on Wednesday caused losses in the tourism sector at a time when businesses expected to profit from the mid-year school vacations.

Low-cost airline to operate Central America flights from Costa Rica

Air carrier group Viva will expand its operations in the region with the opening of a low-cost airline that will offer regional flights out of Costa Rica.

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