General News

Although enforcement of Jalisco’s obligatory vehicle emission testing program has been lax in the lakeside area in the past, local traffic department commander Eduardo Miranda Moreno warns that officers are now on the lookout for cars and trucks lacking up-to-date inspection stickers and out-of-state models that visibly spew pollutants.

While Lake Chapala has been on a steady rise since the start of the rainy season in mid-June, experts on water resource management are concerned that government authorities aren’t doing enough to protect the environmental and prevent climate change disaster. 

California State Senator  Benjamin Hueso received a warm welcome Tuesday, July 21 on his second visit to Chapala in pursuit of a sealing a cooperative agreement with his home district.

Famed cartoonist Jose Trinidad Camacho went public this week revealing how he escaped an attempted kidnapping while driving the Guadalajara-Chapala highway late one night en route to his lakeside home. 

If you’re out and about in the Chapala area these days, you might have the impression that local traffic officers are hounding motorists who violate the rules of the road. 

U.S. citizen Edward Joseph Levinson, 84, was found dead in the Ajijic apartment where he lived early Monday, July 6.  

Watch skilled drivers perform dazzling road tricks at Autoslalom competition scheduled for Saturday, July 11 in the heart of downtown Chapala. 

A University of Guadalajara research project is looking into a possible link between the pesticide Lindane and the incidence of childhood obesity among youngsters aged two to five born in Chapala and Jocotepec.