When the ladies gather at the Chapala Country Club at Vista del Lago on March 9 for Ajijic Rotary Club’s 2013 International Women’s Golf Classic they’ll be excited to meet well-known Mexican professionals Shanti Granada and Alejandra Martin del Campo.

A few of the passengers on the tour bus that crashed on its way back to Ajijic from Puerto Vallarta on February 22 have questioned tour operator Viajes Ajijic about its follow up response, although the well-known local travel agency says it has gone out of its way to help passengers, both those injured and the non-injured.

The Chapala police department and the Ministerio Publico (district attorney’s office) have noted a significant decline in reports of home burglaries over the past month.

Bentley Main, the elderly U.S. citizen resident who was stabbed and beaten in brutal attack during a presumed robbery at his Riberas del Pilar home, died Tuesday night in Guadalajara’s Hospital Civil.

Smack in the middle of the Guadalajara’s International Film Festival, Ajijic became the stage for a cinematic coup with the Mexico premiere of “16 Acres,” the newly released documentary tracing the thorny reconstruction of New York’s World Trade Center (WTC) following the devastating terrorist attack of September 11, 2001.

Taxi drivers assigned to the Guadalajara Airport have denied suggestions that they frequently drive over the speed limit on their way to and from Guadalajara and Lake Chapala.