Playas del Coco may have started as a fishing village, but today, it reels in a new kind of visitor. Just 30 minutes from ...

Coastal areas like Puntarenas or Guanacaste draw crowds, but rural towns offer quieter, authentic experiences with traditional marimba music or cimarronas (brass bands). For vistors, Semana Santa is a ...

Marine archaeologists have discovered that two shipwrecks in Costa Rica that were previously believed to be pirate ships are ...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves took another step in his shift toward a tough-on-crime stance, announcing plans to build a new prison in the Central American ...

Costa Rica ranks as the second-worst country in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) for transportation infrastructure quality, surpassed only by Colombia among 38 member ...

Ivanka Trump showed off her surfing skills while enjoying a family beach vacation to celebrate the Easter holiday. Ivanka, 43, shared photos of herself surfing in Costa Rica and gave fans a ...

Costa Rica’s top law enforcement official toured El Salvador’s notorious “mega prison” in a desperate search for answers to the bloody migrant gang war that has seen murder rates spike in ...

(CNN) — Marine archaeologists have discovered that two shipwrecks in Costa Rica are the remains of Danish slave ships missing for centuries — a finding that restores the ancestral lineage of an entire ...

SAN JOSE, April 7 (Reuters) - Costa Rican officials awarded kickbacks to a top government ally using funds from the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), prosecutors alleged on ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... COMMENTARY Costa Rica is a longstanding democratic model in the hemisphere — but is its controversial president poised to adopt the dictatorial methods ...

Living costs in Costa Rica are rising even as inflation plunges and the local currency, the colón, continues to strengthen — an unusual combination that has puzzled economists. The inflation rate fell ...

Two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica, previously thought to have been pirate ships, have been confirmed to be two Danish slave ships, a museum said Sunday. "Investigations of ...