General News

Surf’s up. Sayulita will be hosting its third annual surfing tournament, “The Classic,” from March 9 to 11.

From February 16 to 21, Mazatlan will be celebrating its 114th Mardi Gras Carnival, a raucous event that draws over 60,000 revelers every year.

The printed page may be going the way of the silent movie so writers keen to learn about the latest innovations in digital publishing are being offered a look into the future at the 7th annual Puerto Vallarta Writers’ Conference on February 24-26 at Biblioteca Los Mangos.

Between 200 and 300 expatriate and Mexican residents, community and business leaders of Melaque and Barra de Navidad waited for more than an hour for a meeting in Cihuatlan’s main plaza with municipal officials, Saturday, January 7 to discuss the lack of security in their towns, which they say lead to the killing of Canadian Robin Wood, January 3 in a botched robbery attempt in Melaque.

The case of a Canadian woman assaulted in a Mazatlan hotel last month refuses to die down, with the plot thickening on a seemingly daily basis.

Three months after Hurricane Jova devastated much of Jalisco’s Pacific coastline, the first 200 million pesos of government aid have finally arrived in the affected communities.

A Mexican male being held by Sinaloa police over the assault of a Canadian woman in a Mazatlan hotel has been denied bail after admitting responsibility for the attack.

The family of a Mexican tourist who died after receiving an electric shock at a well-known Puerto Vallarta landmark are demanding justice from local authorities.