Nosara

Families and businesses in Nosara have been forced to evacuate, and Bomberos de Nosara continues to request volunteer support to fight the fires.

"This is Jade and he really needs our help," the organization stated Tuesday in a Facebook post.

About 100 residents of Nosara marched Saturday morning on Playa Guiones to protest the inauguration of President Donald Trump, toting signs advocating women’s rights, equality, love and peace.

"Costa Rica has inspired my writing by allowing me to be in a whole new environment." Meet Mary Smathers, the U.S. writer whose move to Guanacaste helped kickstart her writing career.

Starting this June, police in Puerto Viejo, Cocles, Cahuita, Flamingo, Dominical, Nosara, Sámara, Playas del Coco, and Tamarindo will start taking criminal complaints, according to Public Security Ministry spokesman José Vargas.

Two people are dead after a small aircraft loaded with cocaine crashed Thursday in northwestern Costa Rica, near the Pacific coastal village of Nosara, the country's Public Security Ministry reported on Friday.