| A.M. Costa Rica top stories |
| Nosara garbage study is a lesson for tourist towns | 9/4/2008 3:24 AM |
| A study of solid waste in the coastal town of Nosara shows recycling may be feasible there and perhaps in other tourist areas. The study showed about 35 percent of the current garbage is recyclable and some 52 percent is organic and could be composed or otherwise reused. Like many Costa Rican communities Nosara has a garbage disposal problem. |
| Calderón has a court date Nov. 3 | 9/4/2008 3:23 AM |
| Former president Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier and seven other persons go on trial Nov. 3 in one of the nation's two big corruption cases |
| Protesters get mayor to promise to fix roads | 9/3/2008 3:43 AM |
| Residents of San Miguel de Desamparados set up a human wall on a stretch of main highway Monday morning and kept the route blocked until the municipal mayor agreed to fix the roads. |
| In search of the elusive sunbathing tree frog | 9/3/2008 3:43 AM |
| A physicist and a conservationist from The University of Manchester are seeking answers in the rain forests of Costa Rica in a bid to understand more about a deadly fungus that is killing amphibians around the world. |
| Real estate slowdown has a silver lining | 9/2/2008 3:07 AM |
| For sale signs are everywhere. Property prices have dropped on some real estate 50 percent or more. Some people have walked away from the houses they were building before completion and assigned them to real estate agents with instructions to sell them for whatever they can get. Some condominium developers are selling their projects out using fractional ownership to they can make some sales and bring in badly needed cash flow. |
| New political party opposes the trade treaty | 9/2/2008 3:07 AM |
| A new national political party is taking root, and one of its major objectives is to oppose the free trade treaty with the United States and the so-called neoliberal policies of current political leaders. |
| Some are shopping eBay for land deals | 9/1/2008 2:44 AM |
| Who says land prices are sky high in Costa Rica? Why a clever purchaser can get a 1.75-acre lot with ocean view for several thousand dollars via an eBay bidding process. Or at least that is what the Internet posting says |
| Condo residents struggle with lack of water | 9/1/2008 2:45 AM |
| Hundreds of families in a Santa Ana condo project have had to deal with dry pipes, said a representative from the Instituto Costarricense de Acueductos y Alcantarillados. |
| Dolphin seem to be host for infectious bacterial disease | 8/29/2008 3:21 AM |
| The bodies of six striped dolphin stranded along the Pacific coast had a marine strain of the highly infections disease brucellosis, according to a report from the Universidad Nacional in Heredia |
| Talamanca youngsters getting a disc of Bribri songs | 8/29/2008 3:20 AM |
| The Universidad Estatal a Distancia has created a CD with Bribri song recordings to teach the language. |
