General News

With the Pacific railroad offering the longest but least dangerous route to the United States, the number of migrants passing through Guadalajara has increased by up to 75 percent in the last six months.

Following the hike in fines for traveling the roads of Jalisco without a seatbelt, the state government is rolling out a new campaign to remind citizens to buckle up on the road.

A legal injunction granted to communal agrarian groups (ejidos)  looks set to delay the start of work on the 110-kilometer macrolibramiento, the ambitious outer city beltway planned to run in a semi-circle to the south of the Guadalajara metropolitan area.

Having been closed last weekend due to heavy rain and snowfall, access to the Nevado de Colima national park was opened up to 4x4 vehicles.

Although Jalisco is the state with the third most deaths from A-H1N1 in 2012, Governor Emilio Gonzalez has said there is no cause for alarm, as health authorities have “everything under control.”

The number of foreign tourists visiting the state of Jalisco has still not returned to the pre-crisis/swine flu levels of 2007 and 2008, Governor Emilio Gonzalez noted in his fifth annual report.

Can companies trademark a natural phenomenon? That was the controversial question proposed by the tequila industry.

In a controversial, chaotic and contested primary election, Fernando Guzman Perez has won the nomination of the incumbent National Action Party (PAN) for governor of Jalisco.