General News

Another finished stretch of the “Vía Corta” (short route) toll road from Guadalajara to Puerto Vallarta opened last week.

The first cruise ship in more than 18 months arrived in Puerto Vallarta on Tuesday.

A report in Spanish-language daily Mural suggests that the governor of Nayarit is keen to change the name of his state’s prime touristic region from Nuevo Vallarta to Nuevo Nayarit. 

Anyone 18 years old and over residing in Puerto Vallarta may obtain an anti-Covid vaccination as of July 23, Jalisco health authorities announced Wednesday.

The Jalisco Health Department (SSJ) has admitted that it refused to allow more than 1,000 passengers on board the Holland America Line’s MS Koningsdam cruise ship to disembark in Puerto Vallarta on December 23, after 21 crew members were detected with Covid-19.   

Puerto Vallarta has been one of the quickest areas to see a recovery from the Covid-19 shutdown that decimated much of Jalisco’s economy last year.

Three tragedies at Puerto Vallarta hotels in the space of a week emphasize the importance for parents and guardians to take extra care of small children while on vacation.

Just over two years ago, alarm bells rang when all of a sudden, residents on and near Los Horcones River, south of Puerto Vallarta, saw a dozen or so workers and earth-moving equipment, and then heard dynamite blasts.