If you want to have the kind of transportive experience found in contemporary Mexico City restaurants, República’s seven- and ten-course tasting menus offer a great approximation closer to home.

Dominican police said they are re-interviewing people who were with Sudiksha Konanki before she vanished in the predawn hours of March 6 at a beach in front of the Riu República Hotel.

Police in the Dominican Republic say the FBI has joined the search for a 20-year-old University of Pittsburgh student who went missing nearly a week ago while on spring break in the tourist town of ...