The state government has fallen a year behind schedule in its plans to provide free wireless internet in the main plazas of all 125 municipalities in Jalisco.

A group of assassins employed by the Knights Templar cartel shot dead a vice admiral of the Mexican Navy in a remote area of Michoacan on Sunday.

With Michoacan’s governor still absent through illness, opposition parties demanded a new gubernatorial election this week.

Poverty levels continue to rise in Mexico, with the latest statistics from the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (Coneval) showing that over 53 percent of the population can no longer afford to pay for the basic food basket.

The number of dengue cases recorded in Jalisco in 2013 is up 400 percent on the same period in 2012.

The Jalisco government will distribute school supplies to almost 1.5 million students for the coming academic year.