COSTA MESA, Calif. – Police in Costa Mesa are warning about a concerning rise in theft, and the thieves appear to be targeting a particular model of pickup truck. Between April and May, the Costa Mesa Police Department said, 20 tailgates were reported stolen in the city. Nineteen of those stolen tailgates were taken from […]
My partner and I spent nearly two weeks in Costa Rica for our birthdays this year. We tried to see the highlights of the country as we visited Arenal, Monteverde, and Paquera. Here are 3 activities I’d do again in a heartbeat, and 1 tourist trap I’d skip if we visited again. My partner and […]
Take a deep breath before trekking here. Deep in the volcanic mountains of Costa Rica hides a deadly, yet small opening of the Earth that engulfs and kills just about all that enters. Locals in the Alajuela Province call this six-foot-deep and ten-foot-long hell hole — accompanied by warning signs of skulls and crossbones — […]
Costa Rica has become the latest Latin American country to introduce rationing due to drought, announcing Thursday it will limit access to electricity for which it relies heavily on hydro-generation. Dams that feed the country’s hydro-electric plants were low due to the El Nino weather phenomenon, officials said. “This El Nino has really been the […]
SAN JOSE (Reuters) – The World Bank approved a $350 million loan for Costa Rica to fund infrastructure and climate and disaster resilience projects, the lender said on Friday. The program is to fund investments in critical infrastructure for flood control and slope stabilization, as well as the reconstruction of bridges and roads damaged by […]
The Ithaca Rotary Club recently awarded two $5,000 to nonprofit groups in Kenya and Costa Rica for their projects tackling climate change, according to a Friday statement from the club. Science Centre Kenya used the grant to plant 1,250 fruit trees at 10 school and teach nearly 2,500 children about agriculture and climate change, helping […]
Police on the Costa Blanca have arrested an Irish fugitive wanted over drugs and weapons offences. He was held in Teulada a half-hour drive north of Benidorm despite trying to show police a fake ID photo to avoid his arrest. Civil Guard officers said today the 33-year-old was wanted on a European Arrest issued by […]
By Alvaro Murillo and Isabel Woodford SAN JOSE/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Long a byword for laidback environmental tourism, Costa Rica is now wrestling with a surge in violence so striking that its government is borrowing a page from nearby El Salvador, which took draconian steps to tackle its own crime problems. In an effort to […]
Speaker Mike Johnson doesn’t have “political capital” yet in Washington, Robert Costa says – CBS News Watch CBS News House Speaker Mike Johnson, who went from backbencher to second in line for the presidency in Oct., doesn’t yet have the “political capital” in Washington as Congress tries to negotiate a budget bill amid an impending […]