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OVSICORI-UNA revised Friday night's Cartago earthquake to magnitude 5.0 at 8 km depth near Orosi and counted 60 aftershocks between 8:16 p.m. Friday and 5:00 a.m. Saturday.
A failure in judicial branch systems forced manual immigration processing at Juan SantamarÃa on Saturday, cancelling one flight and causing 36 passengers to miss a JetBlue departure.
Chris Hemsworth has shared frightening footage from a small-plane flight during his family vacation in Costa Rica, showing lightning flashing outside the aircraft as...
Costa Rican swimmer Alondra Ortiz won the women’s 200-meter butterfly at the 2026 Central American and Caribbean Games, delivering the first swimming gold medal...
