The professionalization of the municipal police force is the principal goal Chapala Public Security Director Adán Domínguez León.

La Cristiania Park will be the venue for the first annual Chapala Tennis Tournament, scheduled November 17-20.

The Chapala government began phasing in the operation of the municipal traffic department this week with a start-up corps of ten officers, a patrol truck and two four-wheel all-terrain motorcycles at its disposal.

Two young men perished and another suffered grave injuries from a single car crash at the north end of Chapala’s Avenida Madero, reported on Monday, October 30.

With growth of the Chapala region’s expatriate community surging at an all-time high, the expansion of high quality health care services only adds to the area’s magnetism for retirees.

Shopkeepers and householders from the vicinity of Calle Morelos are appealing to municipal authorities to ban informal commerce that is overrunning the Andador Axixic, a two-block stretch south of Ocampo-Consitución designated as a weekend pedestrian-only gastronomic and cultural zone.