On a mission to green up and beautify the municipality, Chapala Mayor Alejandro Aguirre recently took a tour of the local government’s vivero (nursery)

The Chapala branch of Banamex has maintained its doors closed for indoor customer service since Friday, January 14.

Prospects for Chapala throwing its annual Carnaval festivities this year are dimming as the COVID pandemic rages on with heightened intensity.

After nearly three months on the job, Santiago Baeza has resigned as an officer of the Chapala government’s culture department.

Temperate weather at Lake Chapala between the months of November and March is invariably a magnet for snowbirds from northern climates of the U.S. and Canada, not only for humans, but also huge flocks of American white pelicans.

As infections with the Covid-19 Omicron variant have been spreading like wildfire in the lakeshore region and across the rest of Mexico, demand for tests to detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus have likewise skyrocketed.