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Latin America’s Cincinnati Open contingent faces a high-pressure Wednesday after severe weather disrupted the opening day of qualifying, leaving several players from the region with unfinished ...

Growth in Costa Rica’s free-zone economy slowed sharply in June, falling to its weakest pace since 2020 and extending a year-long deceleration in one of the country’s most important economic sectors.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Costa Rican President Laura Fernández exchanged invitations for official visits during a phone call yesterday, as the two leaders also discussed possible ...

Costa Rica evacuates at 10 a.m. Wednesday. The seismic network that would detect the real thing has run without dedicated funding since 2023.

Could Costa Rica’s approach to marijuana give it an unexpected tourism advantage over its Central American neighbors? One ...

OIJ Interpol agents detained an American in San Jose, on an FBI warrant. A US civil case traces nearly $2.8 million to Costa ...

Costa Rica's immigration agency expects to regularize about 10,000 people under a special category reopening to applications ...

The New York City Bar Association asked the IACHR and a UN rapporteur to monitor Costa Rica's judiciary, citing budget cuts and stalled court appointments.

The Colombia earthquake death toll has climbed above 200 as rescue teams search collapsed buildings in Cali, Pereira and other devastated areas.

A year-long wildlife study at Reserva Conchal in Guanacaste documented 79 species of mammals, birds and reptiles, nearly double the 40 recorded during the... A bright yellow coral found on seamounts ...

COVID-19 is again Costa Rica’s most widely circulating respiratory virus as cases and hospitalizations rise, although no ...