Costa Rica

It’s a bit strange that if you’re interested in buying property in Costa Rica — renowned for copious rainfall, roaring rivers, whitewater rafting and...

Witch’s Rock Industries, which runs a popular surf camp, two restaurants and a brewery in Tamarindo, has significantly expanded its hospitality business with the acquisition last month of the 29-room Pueblo Dorado Surf Hotel.

The Witch’s Rock surf empire in Tamarindo is branching out with the acquisition of the 29-room Pueblo Dorado Surf Hotel, just a few blocks north of the company’s surf camp and a one-minute walk from the beach in northwestern Costa Rica.

A reported 4.6-magnitude earthquake rattled through the Central Valley at 11:51 a.m. on Thursday, and could be felt for approximately 15 seconds in downtown San José. The University of Costa Rica’s National Seismological Network (RSN) said the tremor originated five kilometers east of Naranjito de Aguirre, Quepos in Puntarenas.

Esteban Ramírez has been named winner of our August Sloth Kong Airport Photo Contest.

The Costa Rican airline Nature Air invites artists to submit designs for plane tails. The prize — you guessed it — involves a plane ride.

Former Tico Times reporter Robert Isenberg's "The Green Season" is a sometimes hilarious, sometimes moving book about his first year in Costa Rica.

At the Planet, People, Peace conference on sustainable tourism Thursday in San Jose, speakers addressed how to turn tourism into something that does more good than harm.

Finca Bellavista, in southwest Costa Rica, is a community of homes attached to or suspended from trees — all of them interesting, some of them spectacular.

Costa Rican authorities say that the man known as "Cuba Dave" has been illegally promoting the country as a haven for sex tourism, despite a 2012 law that forbids attracting people to Costa Rica for the exploitation of prostitution.