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The San Cristobal volcano spewed out a column of ash and gas 2½ miles high Saturday, leading Nicaraguan authorities to evacuate about 3,000 people from nine communit...
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — The head of Nicaragua's navy says Mexico's La Familia cartel is moving heavily into Central America and dominates much of the drug trade th...
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — The Nicaraguan army detained two foreigners at the border with Costa Rica on Monday, and Panamanian officials said they are investigating w...
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaragua's leftist leader has threatened to dissolve congress as a political struggle rages over presidential powers and term limits.At a ...
A public square in Nicaragua became an improvised wedding chapel Thursday for 550 couples who took their marriage vows en masse on Valentine's Day.Mass weddings have...
The San Cristobal volcano spewed out a column of ash and gas 2 1/2 miles high Saturday, leading Nicaraguan authorities to evacuate about 3,000 people from nine commu...
Most days the only vehicles on Highway 15 are battered trucks shuttling grain, coffee beans and cooking oil through the lush, mountainous highlands on the Honduras-N...
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaraguan Supreme Court justices who support President Daniel Ortega picked seven lawyers from Ortega's Sandinista party Wednesday to repl...
Nicaraguan authorities are investigating what they call a vast network of drug criminals behind a seizure of $9.2 million in vans driven by people pretending to be p...
The ruling Sandinista Front has won at least 134 of the 153 mayoral races in local elections the opposition and the U.S. government say lacked transparency, accordin...
Nicaraguan authorities say they've ordered the evacuation of some 300 families living on the flanks of the country's highest volcano after it began spewing hot gas a...
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University has announced its 24-member class of 2014.The group includes reporters, editors, columnists and producers ...
Police in Nicaragua have detained a former U.S. school teacher who was on the FBI's 10 most-wanted fugitives as a suspect in a child pornography investigation, autho...
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — A Nicaraguan TV channel is reporting that the brother of a top Colombian guerrilla leader has arrived in Managua, where president Daniel Or...
Nicaraguan police say a Chilean photographer working for the French news agency Agence France-Presse has been deported because he entered a restricted area near Pres...
MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- A Nicaraguan newspaper says one of its reporters has fled to the United States following what she described as threats from supporters of the r...
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaragua's attorney general has dropped a complaint against President Daniel Ortega and other former Sandinista officials in the killings ...
A U.S. citizen jailed for nearly two years on money-laundering and drug charges in Nicaragua will be freed after a court unanimously upheld his appeal, his lawyer sa...
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Several banana workers denied Friday they were part of a conspiracy to defraud Dole Foods Co. by falsely claiming in a damage lawsuit to ha...