Throughout March, 30 Jalisco branches of the Soriana Supermarket chain collected 93,182.90 pesos from rounding out customer tabs as donations to Taiyari, A.C., a non-profit that supports impoverished children suffering from heart ailments.

Women living in Zapopan who are considered vulnerable to domestic violence are being given electronic devices to emit notifications when they feel they may be in danger.

Water is becoming a precious and increasingly scarce commodity for lakeside area residents as the spring dry season takes holds.

Jalisco’s wave of violence is showing no sign of letting up, as evidenced by the gruesome discovery last week of 20 bodies stuffed into plastic bags in the municipality of Ixtlahuacan de los Membrillos.

Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro and Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador were once close political allies but fell out before the 2018 general election. They traded many barbs during that campaign but both won their respective races.  Peace now seems to have prevailed, and last weekend’s visit by Lopez Obrador to Guadalajara — his first as president — went off in a thoroughly amicable manner.

A total of 23 people have died from influenza-associated causes during the 2018-2019 flu season in the state of Jalisco.