New travel advisories issued this week relate to an outbreak of a virus in the Americas. Those planning a spring getaway may want to check out the latest travel advice regarding outbreaks of the ...

Climate change could be helping the flesh-eating screwworm fly spread, undoing decades of progress — and the USDA isn’t doing ...

A Canadian tourist spent 71 days detained in the Dominican Republic after being wrongly accused of drug trafficking at the ...

The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the ...

The government of the Dominican Republic is raiding maternity wards and deporting Haitian women before or after they’ve given ...

Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco has appeared in court in the Dominican Republic in a sexual abuse case involving a ...

The U.S. Marshals Service says agents have arrested a man in the Dominican Republic sought in the killing of four people in New York last year, including two children ...

The trial of Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco started Monday in the Dominican Republic in a sexual abuse case involving a 14-year-old girl.

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A heartbreaking tragedy shook the baseball world this Thursday as the death of the son of former MLB pitcher for the ...

The best time to visit Puerto Plata is May and June, when hotel rates take a dive for the impending rainy season. In general, the city's weather is warm with average highs ranging from 80 degrees ...

The best way to get around Puerto Plata is by taxi. They're cheap – your average ride costs about 150 to 250 pesos ($3 to $5) – and drivers are willing to bargain to an even lower price.