Located on Punta Uvita in Marino Ballena National Park on the Pacific coast, Playa Hermosa is one of the best beaches in Costa Rica for families that love wildlife. It’s where humpback whales ...

Playa Blanca, meaning “White Beach” in Spanish, is a captivating gem nestled along the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. However, ...

With only a week to spend in Costa Rica, I highly recommend choosing either the Caribbean or the Pacific Coast, but not both. Driving between the two of them will mean losing at least one day’s ...

Welcome to Costa Rica. I grew up in Costa Rica ... The laid-back beach towns that dot this part of the Pacific coast include Nosara, a mecca for surfing and yoga, and my favorite, the lesser ...

The interception occurred 64 kilometers off Cabo Matapalo in the southern Pacific, a region often used by drug traffickers moving narcotics northward. A Costa Rican Coast Guard vessel stopped the boat ...

I’ve visited Costa Rica more than 20 times. When I first started traveling there—more than two decades ago—I gravitated to surf towns on the Pacific Coast, like Tamarindo, Santa Teresa ...

Quepos is a small harbor town along Costa Rica's central Pacific coast, just 60 miles southwest of San José. It offers beautiful beaches as well as a selection of charming restaurants ...

Though Costa Rica is a small country, it boasts coastlines on both the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. Traveling between ...

According to the OIJ, Gardner and his family were on vacation at the hotel in Manuel Antonio, a town on the central Pacific coast of Costa Rica.

According to the OIJ, Gardner and his family were on vacation at the hotel in Manuel Antonio, a town on the central Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Hearst Television participates in various affiliate ...