General News

A mobile unit from the Jalisco Traffic Department (SeMov) has started  touring the lakeside area to make it easier for locals to obtain a first-time driver’s license or renew an existing one. 

A week-long clean-up campaign along the Libramiento bypass is scheduled to get under way Monday, January 23, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., continuing daily through the last day of the month.   

 What started out as vehement public repudiation of the policies and principles espoused by Donald Trump ended as a sentimental love fest of unity among the throng of U.S., Canadian, Mexican and assorted foreign nationals joining in the Stand Together demonstration held Saturday, January 21 in Ajijic.

The Lake Chapala Shrine Club is writing an extraordinary new chapter in its long history of supporting medical treatments for local children. 

A throng of at least 600 people of different nationalities, genders and ages congregated in Ajijic for the Stand Together demonstration held on Saturday January 21 in alliance with the Women’s March on Washington.

The Chapala government’s legal office is fighting an uphill battle against a private company that holds a concession contract for the installation and maintenance of LED technology street lamps throughout the municipality.

Business at Chapala’s property registry office has been inordinately slow over the first three weeks of the year. 

During a January 12 press conference ostensibly called to lay out the Chapala government’s strategies to reduce expenditures, Mayor Javier Degollado announced that the administration will not backtrack on 2017 hikes in municipal taxes and fees, nor the across-the-board pay raise for municipal employees taking effect this month.