Director of Turrialba National Park Miguel Salazar announced that the conservation area would seek funds to purchase 1,000 hectares from landholders in and around the active Turrialba Volcano.
Costa Rica's Ruta de los Conquistadores mountain bike race, considered one of the most difficult in the world, is headed into the third and final stage on Saturday. Here is a look inside to Friday's Stage 2 action.
Mexico gave refuge to Cuba's Castro brothers in the 50s, then condemned Cuba's human rights record in the aughts. Now the countries' relations are again warming.
Organizers of Costa Rica's grueling cross-country bike race Ruta de los Conquistadores are reporting that a Red Cross patrol has located U.S. cyclist Mark Lyons of Denver, Colorado. He reportedly is in good condition.
A serial killer in Costa Rica has murdered eight drug-addicted women in San José's worst slums, sparking eerie reminders of the country's infamous "Psicópata" murderer, who targeted women in the city decades ago.
Costa Rica's public health care system and government attorney's office say President Solis' recent presidential decree legalizing in vitro fertilization, IVF, is illegal.
Stories will be told in Spanish, but it's not necessary to be fully proficient to enjoy them. Many stories are interactive, so the audience gets to make noises and gestures or sing or yodel and become part of the story.
Costa Rica is increasingly a destination for refugees from the Northern Triangle countries. Last year, according to U.N. data, Costa Rica received more asylum applications from Salvadorans than Colombians for the first time ever.
International experts will perform new tests on Chilean poet Pablo Neruda's remains to analyze a mysterious bacteria that has heightened his family's suspicions he was poisoned by dictator Augusto Pinochet's regime.
