Second plane in ten days crash-lands at San Jose airport without landing gear
For the second time in less than a month, a small aircraft has crash-landed at San Jose’s Tobias Bolaños airport in Pavas after the aircraft failed to deploy its landing…
Cartago to build ¢75 million center to care for street dogs
With an initial investment of ¢75 million, the Municipality of Cartago will begin the construction of a care center for stray dogs this month. …
Costa Rica Coast Guard officers injured after lightning strikes boat during patrol in Nicoya
Three Costa Rica Coast Guard officials were injured Tuesday afternoon when lightning struck their patrol vessel while conducting a patrol near Chira Island in the Gulf of Nicoya.…
Number of non-violent drug offenders in Costa Rica, LatAm prisons up sharply: research group
Latin American countries including Costa Rica have seen a sharp rise in the incarceration rate for non-violent drug offenders, a segment whose growth has been faster than that of the…
Details emerge in case of clandestine mass grave discovered Sunday
New details are emerging in the case of a clandestine grave where three murder victims were found buried together in a field near the road to Rancho Redondo, Goicoechea on…
Authorities seek family in United States of US woman found dead, leaving 2 children in Costa Rica
Costa Rica’s child welfare agency, PANI is attempting to locate the family of 35-year-old US citizen, Sarah Kim Nelson, who was found dead in her home in La Trinidad de…
Doctors from Costa Rica and Cuba examine comatose student shot in the head by Mexican police
Calixto Machado, of the Cuban Neurology and Neurosurgery Institute, and Costa Rican neurologist Mauricio Chinchilla examined the comatose student last Friday, the CEAV said.…
Costa Rica’s medical device industry is booming
Costa Rica exported US $1.527 billion worth of medical devices between January and September of this year, a 28 percent increase compared to the same period in 2014.…
