General News

Car insurance (third party minimum) is obligatory in Jalisco but only one-fifth of all motorists in the state are taking out cover for their vehicles, according to two automobile sector institutions. 

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Tlajomulco city hall says the Arroyo San Isidro that leads into the La Hurtado reservoir is clear of pollution following an intense clean-up effort that cost the municipality over two million pesos. 

A group of retired citizens protested outside the Jalisco Government Palace this week to demand the release of federal pension funds denied to them since the beginning of the year.

The state government has fallen a year behind schedule in its plans to provide free wireless internet in the main plazas of all 125 municipalities in Jalisco.

A seven-year-old girl was stung to death by a swarm of bees in San Agustin, Tlajomulco on Sunday.The girl, identified only as Jocelyn, died just before 8:30 p.m. at a private hospital in Santa Cruz de las Flores after being stung more than 50 times that afternoon.

A group of assassins employed by the Knights Templar cartel shot dead a vice admiral of the Mexican Navy in a remote area of Michoacan on Sunday.

The National Defense Department (Sedena) destroyed hundreds of marijuana and opium poppy plantations across western Mexico last month.

With Michoacan’s governor still absent through illness, opposition parties demanded a new gubernatorial election this week.