The Costa Rican Tourism Board oversees the prestigious Ecological Blue Flag Program, awarding flags to the country’s cleanest and most sustainable beaches. Local communities apply for this ...

For this week’s crowdfunding profile, we travel to Central America where the husband-and-wife team of Guillermo Tovar C. and Nadia Mendoza A. is working feverishly to complete Costa Rica’s ...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica -- Costa Rica's new president has raised a gay pride flag next to the country's flag at the presidential residence as part of an anti-discrimination observance.

Costa Rica’s Blue Flag Ecological Program awards beaches for trash-free sands, clean ocean and drinking water, access to showers and restrooms and waste disposal programs. The certification program ...

Costa Rica hoisted the gay pride flag at the presidential palace on Friday in a landmark act of solidarity with the gay, lesbian and transgender community in the Americas. New President Luis ...

A Nicaraguan military commander recently invaded Costa Rican territory, and ordered troops to take down a Costa Rican flag and replace it with Nicaragua’s. Was this the work of a brash commander ...

Female football player Shirley Cruz will be Costa Rica's flag bearer for the 2019 Pan American Games Opening Ceremony here. Two-times UEFA Women's Champions League winner Cruz headlines the 85 ...

Doha: Doha has completed the flag-raising ceremony of the countries qualified for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 today, by adding the flags of the three countries whose teams have qualified from ...