Video shows cat trying to smuggle drugs into Costa Rica prison 01:31. Costa Rican police seized crack cocaine, marijuana and five capybaras — the largest rodents in the world — after chasing ...

A family of 12 fell ill with histoplasmosis after visiting Costa Rica's Venado Caves. The CDC is involved in addressing this fungal infection outbreak.

If you want to audition Costa Rica, you can settle there on a tourist visa for a year. The only catch is that after the first 180 days, you have to exit the country — make a border run — for ...

GENEVA – As humanitarian needs reach critical levels in Costa Rica, due to continuing displacement from Nicaragua, a 41 per cent funding cut is seriously impacting the ability of UNHCR, the UN Refugee ...

Costa Rica — a country of just 5.1 million — now hosts more than 194,000 Nicaraguan asylum-seekers and 9,216 recognized Nicaraguan refugees, over half of all Nicaraguan refugees and asylum-seekers ...

Ivanka, 43, shared photos of herself surfing in Costa Rica and gave fans a glimpse into the family trip with husband Jared Kushner, Joshua Kushner and his wife, model Karlie Kloss. "Grateful doesn ...

A group of lawyers filed a suit Thursday against Costa Rica, claiming that it has violated the rights of dozens of minors deported from the United States by detaining them for nearly two months ...

The lawyers who sued estimates that nearly 100 people are still detained, including about 50 children. The rest have been repatriated, according to a letter Costa Rica’s government signed in March.

Let’s compare Costa Rica to the U.S., the country which represented 59% percent of Costa Rican tourism in 2024 (Tico Times: U.S. tourists lead Costa Rica’s record tourism growth in 2024, January 16, ...

Costa Rica Foreign Minister Arnoldo André Tinoco should use his appearance before the Legislative Assembly on March 19, 2025, to disclose his migration agreement with the United States and ...

My first trip to Costa Rica was dreamy, but I made mistakes. There were several problems, like power outages and dehydration, I wish I'd prepared for.

However, before you close on a home in Costa Rica, keep these property tax considerations in mind: Costa Rica’s transfer tax (the amount charged when property changes hands) is 1.5%.