The Jet Set discotheque, founded in 1973 by Grecia López in Santo Domingo, began as a restaurant-discotheque and quickly ...

The list of high-profile people who lost their lives included Major League Baseball players Octavio Dotel and Tony Blanco, ...

SANTO DOMINGO - The death toll after a roof collapsed at a crowded nightclub in the Dominican Republic has climbed to 218, the head of rescue operations said Thursday, in the Caribbean nation's worst ...

Partially barricaded by stone walls, accented with baroque architecture and lying on cobblestone streets, Santo Domingo's Zona Colonial marks the area where Columbus settled in the New World.

Tourism generates about 15 per cent of the country's gross domestic product, with visitors attracted by the music and nightlife, Caribbean beaches, and colonial architecture of Santo Domingo.