The drastic drought that is prevailing throughout Mexico has many lakeside inhabitants wondering whether local communities will run out of water before the summer rains replenish the area’s aquifers.

After a brief respite from the week-long battle to quell a huge forest fire in the Chupinaya-Cerro Viejo mountain range,

The abandoned site of the Chapala Media Park will transformed into the new campus for the University of Guadalajara’s Centro Universitario de Chapala (CUChapala), as jointly announced Tuesday, April 9 by UdeG Rector Ricardo Villanueva and Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro.

The 104th anniversary of the grand opening of the Chapala Railway Station was marked with a gala celebration held on Saturday, April 13.

The installation of a chain link fence surrounding a section of the Ajijic beach that began prior to the Easter holiday period caused alarm among village activists who keep a close eye on invasions of the shoreline federal zone.

Restoration of the ancient Capilla del Rosario at the northwest corner of the Ajijic plaza is near enough to completion that a reopening celebration has been scheduled for Tuesday, April 30.