A young man’s life ended this weekend when he stepped out of his house with some friends during the New Year’s celebrations in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Congested commuting avenues such as Vallarta, Lázaro Cárdenas, Patria, López Mateos, and the Periférico are being tagged by transportation chiefs as possible beneficiaries of a carpool, or high occupancy lane.

The Instituto Mexicano de Seguro Social (IMSS), the government-run health care provider, is investing 354 million pesos (26 million dollars) in state-of-the-art cancer fighting equipment at the oncology department, located in Hospital de Especialidades at the Centro Medico de Occidente in Guadalajara.

State Transportation (SVT) Director Diego Monraz has rejected a proposal to ticket women who apply make-up while they are driving, as he says it is discriminatory.

A new bicycle lane is open on Avenida Washington, but Guadalajara City Hall might have jumped the gun on the project.

A small fire destroyed one of the curtains in Guadalajara’s Teatro Degollado on Tuesday. Outside the theater, witnesses noticed smoke billowing from the windows. A theater lamp started the flames at around 10:30 a.m., although theater personnel just as quickly extinguished them before firefighters arrived.