The Tico Times

What’s interesting about the “Juguetes, Recuerdos, y Amigos” is that current children probably won’t find it nearly as interesting as grownups.

Costa Rica's National Police have seized what is likely the biggest illegal stash of poached sea turtle eggs this year, just outside of Nicoya, Guanacaste.

An airliner hovered over the runway, seemingly still, as if freeze-framed against the golden backdrop of Guanacaste. Then it slid slowly through the air,...

A new study has found alarmingly high levels of pesticides in the urine of pregnant Costa Rican women working in and living near the banana industry in Matina, Limón. The chemical ethylene thiourea (ETU) found in the fungicide mancozeb, which is sprayed over banana plantations here, can be detrimental to fetal brain development, according to the report released Monday in Environmental Health Perspectives.

San José's Juan Santamaría International Airport is often busy, but it became a zoo on Tuesday when police discovered 170 live animals in the luggage of a passenger headed to Panama.

The program will offer training and educational assistance to improve the competitiveness of small and medium-sized businesses, but the news came on the heels of a Hanes Brand Clothing subsidiary closing its operations in Cartago, and laying off 1,250 workers because of more favorable conditions in Vietnam.

For $349, it will be able to unlock doors at Starwood hotels next year.

Google celebrated Costa Rica’s Children’s Day on Tuesday with one of the search giant’s iconic doodles (only visible in Costa Rica). Since 1946, Costa Rica...

Human muscle tissue can bounce back from almost any type of wound, but venomous snakes can inflict bites that eat away flesh and even kill...

COJIMAR, Cuba – Just like Ernest Hemingway used to do, two of his grandsons sailed into the fishing town of Cojimar on Monday, marking 60 years since the iconic U.S. author won the Nobel prize.