Alert For Effects of Hurricane Emily
An alert has been declared by the Comisión Nacional de Emergencias (CNE) for two areas in Costa Rica that may be affected Emily, the hurricane in the Caribbena sea.

Cables and Lamp Possible Cause of Calderón Fire
The Fiscala de Delitos contra la Vida (prosecutor's office for homicide) is analyzing two lamps and several cables found in a storage room where the fire began that killed 19 people at the Calderón Guardia hospital on Tuesday.

Heavy Traffic Expected for End of Vacation Weekend
This is the closing weekend for the mid year school break and the Policía de Transito promises to be out in full force.

Guinness Record Soup
The tourist town of Sarchi in Alajuela was the scene for the preparation of a record soup prepared by 40 chefs using 400 kilos of premium tomatoes, 75 kilos of carrots and many, many kilos of other ingredients to make enough soup to feed 2.000 people.

NASA's Tropical Cloud Systems and Processes Mission in Costa Rica
NASA’s ER-2 airplane departs the San Juan Santa Maria airport in San José, on July 6, 2005. As Hurricane Dennis collapses along the southern shores of the United States, and millions of coastal residents breathe a sigh of relief, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are busy studying data gathered during the early days of the hurricane that threatened much of the southern Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico.