General News

Jalisco health authorities have stepped up precautions at the Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta airports following the worst outbreak of West Nile virus in the United States since 1999.

The government has deployed 600 federal police officers in Michoacan, where a fierce battle with the Knights Templar cartel took place last Friday.

In spite of promises made when Guadalajara hosted the Parapan American Games last November, the Jalisco state government is failing its disabled citizens, a human rights advocate told a specialist forum this week.

For a unique experience in traditional festivities, take a spin out to the indigenous pueblo of Mezcala. The town’s annual celebration honoring religious patroness La Virgin de la Asuncion is on daily through Friday, August 17.

First it was hailed as a “21st century Noah’s Ark” to preserve flora and fauna; now Tepatitlan's National Center for Genetic Resources could be used to reintroduce extinct species in the style of “Jurassic Park.”

Competing in the North and Central American Championships in St. John, New Brunswick August 9 to 12 are 15 Jalisco athletes aged 60 to 82 years old under the DIF Jalisco banner.

An orphaned jaguar once held at a Zapopan ranch has finally been relocated to a breeding program in coastal Jalisco.

Jalisco authorities wants the National Water Commission to force upstream dams to release water flow to Lake Chapala.