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Hundreds of Nicaraguans visited the national zoo, located on the highway to Masaya, to help cover costs and guarantee food for some 400 animals this Sunday.

The Tico Times gets a lot of press releases from PR firms. A lot. Some are interesting, some are downright bland, but every now and then we get one that makes us laugh.

A bus carrying travelers from Colombia and Venezuela crashed in Ecuador early Tuesday.

The Peace Corps photo series in The Tico Times Costa Rica Changemakers section is sponsored by the Costa Rica USA Foundation for Cooperation (CRUSA), a proud financial supporter of Peace Corps Volunteer projects nationwide.

The waves of violence sometimes seem to lap against an indifferent shore.

On a rainy morning in Nicaragua's south, two men step out of the jungle and into a boat that will transport them a short...

Costa Rica announced on Friday that it plans on ramping up police presence at popular tourist hotspots after two female tourists were murdered last weekend.

In the back of an unknown vehicle, Álvaro Conrado, 15, asked the people around him not to let him go to sleep, because if he did, he wouldn’t wake up. He’d been shot in the neck and it hurt to breathe. He was bleeding out.

In Santa Teresa, on the west side of the Nicoya Peninsula, residents asked for increased police presence.

The most recent environmental footprint assessment estimated that for humanity to meet its needs in 2018, we require 1.5 times of what Earth can currently supply. You may consider that as the cost of the "pursuit of happiness" but ironically, many recent studies indicate that happiness and life satisfaction has been declining over the past two decades.