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 ...

Costa Rica has been an expat magnet for decades, with an estimated 70,000 Americans residing in a country of more than five million people. In addition to its other attributes, ...

From jungle retreats to beachfront getaways, the best all-inclusive resorts in Costa Rica let nature shine. Here are our top picks for where to stay in 2025.

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.

A bat cave in Costa Rica is likely the reason a family caught a fungal lung disease known as histoplasmosis. In December of last year, a family of 13 visited Arenal and Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica ...

SAN JOSE, (Reuters) - Former Nicaraguan military officer Roberto Samcam was killed yesterday in Costa Rica, where he was living in exile, his wife and ...

Costa Rican authorities have now released a toxicology report. Miller Gardner -- the 14-year-old son of former New York Yankees outfielder Brett Gardner -- died from carbon monoxide poisoning ...

Former Costa Rican President Óscar Arias Sánchez, who likened President Trump to "Roman emperor" earlier this year, says he fears the U.S. revoked his visa over criticisms of Trump.

The United States should offer to bring back and hear the asylum claims of approximately 200 third-party nationals, including children, who were wrongfully expelled to Costa Rica in February.

The prison officials discovered the cat sneaking over a barbed wire fence, according to video posted online Prison officials in Costa Rica caught an unlikely suspect attempting to smuggle drugs ...

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.

Authorities in Costa Rica have ruled out asphyxiation in the death of former New York Yankee Brett Gardner’s 14-year-old son – and said it could take months before the cause of the teen’s ...