Tico Times

After more than a month in the intensive care unit with a family member that remains in a coma at Costa Rica's CIMA Hospital, the Swenson family is going home to Texas thanks to an anonymous donor.

In times of need, communities stand together. The Tico Times is supporting victims of recent storm-related disasters by collecting the following items. (Please, no...

Tico skateboarding pioneer: Costa Rican skateboarders are known more as artists than as athletes.

New photos from Costa Rica’s Foreign Ministry illustrate that Nicaraguan soldiers have nearly completed a canal that could threaten protected wetlands near the San...

As erosion and sedimentation damage C.R. wetlands, environmentalists ponder how to prevent more harm to the country's ecosystem.

University of Costa Rica’s Zoology Museum: “To discover a new species of river crab for the country isn’t something that happens often.”

Political gurus are holding their breaths and hoping for a higher voter turnout for Sunday’s municipal election. More than 75 percent of the country...

Tomorrow, on the country’s southern Pacific coast, Uvita will host the first Costa Ballena Fair, featuring offerings from area artists, craftspeople and businesses. Costa Ballena...

“Recovery” has been the oft-repeated goal for the Costa Rican economy in 2010. The worldwide economic crisis battered national sectors in 2009, and the objective...

Pope Benedicto XVI advised Costa Rica against lifting its longtime ban on in vitro fertilization, saying the Central American country signed a pact, which “expressly recognizes the value of human life from conception.” Costa Rica has been under pressure by international organizations to reverse its stance on the procedure.