The Tico Times

QUITO, Ecuador -- A World Bank arbitration panel has ordered Ecuador to pay $1.8 billion, plus interest, to U.S. oil firm Occidental Petroleum for cancelling a contract. Occidental sued...

Costa Rica’s National Emergency Commission announced Monday that it would expand the ring of security measures to a radius of five kilometers from the crater of Turrialba Volcano.

"We want to show action and sustainability in an extraordinary way,” said Green Circle Experience co-founder Ed Smit.

One of the most spectacular wildlife displays on the planet is happening in the skies over Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast right now: fall raptor migration and the formation of a "river of raptors." And thanks to a geographic bottleneck, one of the best places in the world to witness it is the Kèköldi indigenous territory on Costa Rica's southern Caribbean coast.

Chocolate, whiskey, wine and song in Costa Rica's greatest Caribbean hot spot, at the Puerto Viejo Chocolate Festival — what's not to like?

Cuba's Isla de la Juventud is a boneyard of big ideas, from pirates' hideout to U.S. tourism mecca to experiment in communist internationalism. Now it's struggling to keep its few residents.

Turrialba Volcano launched ash approximately 1,000 meters into the air on Halloween afternoon.

"Labor City" is a model for other camps that could follow. Qatar plans to build seven "cities" to house foreign laborers working on the 2022 World Cup and other major infrastructure projects.

The Tico Times sat down and spoke with Oliver Skinner - and his famous dog, Radar - in his beautiful and artistic home in Barrio Otoya to discuss design, business and how a lost pet brought people together.

Four women in Costa Rica are currently pregnant with conjoined twins, an extremely rare coincidence in a small country.