Eight Live the Christmas Miracle Surviving Small Plane Crash in Tamarindo
Although there is still a week to go to Christmas, eight people got their gift early - the gift of life - when their small airplane crashed in Refundores de Tamarindo, Santa Cruz de Guanacaste, living a real miracle.

Arias Walks Through Central Market Amid Hugs and Kisses
Though politicians are prohibited from political propaganda during the holiday season, it didn't stop presidential candidate frontrunner, Oscar Arias, to mingle with the crowd in San José downtown Central Market.

Majority of Cell Phone Users Complain of Coverage; Survey Shows
Cellular telephone service is lousy, this according to 71.8% of customers surveyed by the Autoridad Reguladora de Servicios Públicos (Aresep).

President Pacheco at His Lowest
At six months from the end of his term, over half Costa Ricans rate President Abel Pacheco's performance "bad" to "very bad".  This is the way 53out of every 100 people think, while only 21 believe that the chief executive's performance has been "good" to "very good".

Costa Rica Aura Validation Experiment (AVE) Winter 2006
The Costa Rica Aura Validation Experiment (CR-AVE) is the third in a series of similar NASA-led science missions to acquire high quality measurements of the tropical atmosphere to validate data from NASAs Aura satellite, launched July 15, 2004.

Two Tons of Cocaine Seized
A U.S. Coast Guard cutter, part of the Costa Rica-U.S. anti-drug joint effort, caught a Costa Rican fishing boat which carried over 2 tons of cocaine.