This year, 90 students from Jalisco participated in the Singapore International Math Olympiad Challenge. Of the 203 medals won by Mexico, Jalisco students took home 111—more than half the total.

Authorities of the Wixárica Indigenous people and officials from the Jalisco Ministry of Culture have reaffirmed their commitment to protect Xapawiyemeta, a sacred site located on a high point of Lake Chapala’s Isla de los Alacranes.

Jalisco Governor Pablo Lemus Navarro announced this week that the major upgrade to the Chapala-Guadalajara highway will be completed by December, ahead of the World Cup soccer matches scheduled for next summer in Guadalajara.

Around 90 members of the Mexican Army’s elite Special Forcesunit have been deployed to Jalisco to bolster security operations in metro Guadalajara and the Puerto Vallarta region.

Jalisco politicians, water management experts and Lake Chapala conservation activists are raising alarms over the federal government’s plan to construct an aqueduct that will carry water from the Solís Dam in Acámbaro, Guanajuato, to the city of León and other municipalities in that state’s industrial corridor.

Tsunami alerts were activated along the Jalisco coast following one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded.