A 32-year-old woman drowned when she got out of her car during a flash flood in the Oblatos neighborhood of Guadalajara last week.  A fierce current of water dragged Jessica Natali Velasco Polanco more than 400 meters to her death, police said.

The inherent dangers of choosing journalism as a career in Mexico have prompted parents to withdraw their children from a periodismo course in the southern Jalisco city of Ciudad Guzman, reports Guadalajara daily Maspormas.   

Famed Spanish tenor Placido Domingo picked up the baton to conduct the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra for the finals of his international opera competition, Operalia, held at the Degollado Theater last Sunday evening.

Hundreds of revelers flocked to the Cerro de la Reina in Tonala last weekend to witness the traditional Danza de los Tastoanes honoring Saint James the Apostle and commemorating an indigenous insurgence during the Spanish invasion of western Mexico.

The annual Santo Santiago fiestas in nearby Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos continues with cultural events in the town plaza every evening, 8 p.m. Appearing Friday, July 22 are the Rondalla de Chapala. 

The Jalisco state legislature looks to be keeping its word about environmental sustainability and adhering to a “green” agenda.