Tico Times

Son of legendary Puerto Rican baseball star is lending his time to help get Nicaragua’s first baseball academy off the ground.

Mediating border conflicts isn't easy when the two feuding countries are barely on speaking terms.

Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla's team presented a proposed tax reform package to the Legislative Assembly on Monday, pledging to make the country's tax system more egalitarian. Among the proposed changes are lifting tax exemptions for select associations (including educational institutions); and replacing a 13 percent sales tax with a 14 percent value-added tax.

More than $160,000 was stolen from a hotel where Costa Rica's national soccer team was staying during a tournament in Panama.

Fishing looking up just about everywhere in Costa Rica.

CORRECTION: The Tico Times notes errors in a story last week regarding past Costa Rican presidents.

Will dubious electoral process push Nicaragua’s shaky democracy over the edge?

NUTRITION IN THE NEWS: Long prescribed to cardiovascular disease patients, aspirin may also be beneficial to cancer patients, according to a recent study.

While the case against Nicaragua entered the World Court in the Netherlands, the president and Security Ministry made defensive moves along the northern border, vowing to construct roadways, fences and heliports at spots along the Río San Juan.

MANAGUA – Part of the Sandinistas’ strategy to diversify economic and trade relations has been to court the People’s Republic of China without upsetting...