Many retired expats and other foreigners relocate here and are completely unaware of how dangerous some of the country’s roads become during the rainy...

A Costa Rica court has convicted nine persons in the murder/kidnapping of 5Dimes founder Sean “Tony” Creighton. Creighton was kidnapped in September of 2018 when...

The head of US diplomacy, Antony Blinken, will visit Costa Rica on his first trip to Latin America

Central American countries are preparing for a wave of migrant caravans containing people from as far away as Africa and Asia to cross their territories,...

In the early morning hours of Thursday, Nov. 16, 1989, a squad of the elite counter-insurgency unit of the Salvadoran Army, the Atlacatl Battalion,...

The future of restoring tropical forests should not be exclusively in the hands of governments, argues Rebecca Cole, director of three biological stations in Costa Rica run by the Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS). The ecologist believes private institutions and landowners could also have a stake in those efforts.

Dean Hinton died at his home in Escazú after a long and distinguished diplomatic career.

A snorkeling accident leads Tico Times contributer and space education advocate Bruce Callow to meet two new Costa Rican NASA superstars: Alejandro (Alex) and Joseph Mora.

African migrants have basic shelter along the border of Costa Rica and Panama but the only thing they really want is safe passage to the U.S.

A U.S. judge released Monday transcripts of guilty pleas from three prominent defendants in the sweeping FIFA corruption investigation who confessed to crimes and agreed to pay $37.5 million in compensation.