A Chapala lawyer and his wife gained an unexpected new lease on life after miraculously surviving a horrific highway collision on Monday, August 20.

A woman gunned down in Chapala last Sunday has been identified as the widow of a notorious drug lord from Nayarit.

Foreign citizens applying for driver’s licenses at the Chapala office of the Jalisco Traffic Department (SVT) are being exempted from a new requirement to present a copy of the CURP personal identity number to carry out the process.

Contrary to some negative buzz on the local grapevine, leading lakeside area realtors see positive signs of stability and future growth in their business sector.

Lakesiders who have been agitating over the imminent erection of a giant sign outside the local Walmart can breathe easy.

A Chapala policeman is among three men arrested on Tuesday, August 7 in connection with a fatal shooting in Ixtlahuacan de los Membrillos.