Chapala’s Ecology Advisory Council this week put its stamp of approval on a draft of the Municipal Animal Protection Code, a regulatory initiative that has been in the works for the past three years.

Chapala’s municipal Traffic Department dispatched a crew this week to paint yellow and white stripes across the speed reduction bumps recently built into the newly repaved surface of the Libramiento bypass.

Chapala appears to be on the losing end of the budgetary policies of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his legislative allies.

Chapala holds a new national distinction after being awarded the title “Señorial e Insigne Ciudad” (Noble and Distinguished City) by the National Federation of Mexican Chronicler Associations (FEDACROM).

A five-year-old pitbull named Luna met a bloody demise in the violent climax of a longstanding dispute between neighbors in Chapala’s Plaza de Toros barrio, reported around 11 p.m. on Thursday, November 22.

The Chapala government has officially linked into an intermunicipal crime prevention initiative launched by Tlajomulco Seguro, A.C., a non-profit organization formed by leading business operators whose enterprises are located in the vicinity of the Guadalajara-Chapala highway.