The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Jalisco lawmakers have binned an assisted dying bill that would have given people with terminal illnesses a greater say in how they live out their final days.
Jalisco Health Department officials have warned homeowners about “phony brigades” of fumigators prowling neighborhoods claiming to work for their agency.
The Jalisco legislature is not obliged to change the state Civil Code in the aftermath of a Mexican Supreme Court ruling that deems state laws that discriminate against same-sex marriage to be “unconstitutional.”
Student bus crashes
An end-of-semester beach trip to Zihuatanejo for University of Guadalajara high school students ended in tragedy Thursday after the Primera Plus bus they were traveling in crashed near the Michaocan town of Pinzandaran. One student was killed and 39 injured. Police say the driver was speeding and lost control of the bus
The British Council in Mexico will evaluate the levels of 1,500 English middle school (secundaria) teachers in Jalisco after a national study revealed that 97 percent of public school students end their educations with virtually no knowledge of the language.
Lakeside area authorities have labeled the side-by-side deaths of a losing candidate for mayor of Tizapan el Alto (on Lake Chapala’s south shore) and his spouse as a homicide-suicide case.
Election day in Jalisco, Sunday, June 7, unfolded smoothly, with "nothing out of the ordinary" to report, according to Jalisco Electoral Institute (IEPC) President Carlos Manuel Rodriguez. The fireworks came after the polls closed with the realization that the political landscape in the state had altered radically – no more so than in metropolitan Guadalajara.
