In anticipation of a reduction in the Chapala government’s share of federal funding for municipalities during the coming year, members of the city council approved an austere spending budget for 2017 by unanimous vote.

Looking for a place to ring in 2017 with a bang?

In what counts as a heart-warming, true-life holiday story, an expatriate resident and a local businessman are teaming up to help out a Chapala couple and their four children who lost their home and personal belongings in a December 10 fire caused by an electrical short circuit. 

While thousands of activists are mobilizing across the United States in support of the Women’s March on Washington set for the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration, Lakeside Progressives for Action are winding up for a parallel Backlash Begins rally to be held Saturday, January 21 in Ajijic.

Operation Smile Mexico was honored by President Enrique Peña Nieto as the 2016 group winner of the Premio Nacional de Acción Voluntaria y Solidaria, the annual prize for outstanding achievement in volunteer charity work.

With many government employees taking time off for the holidays, Chapala city hall offices will operate with skeleton staff on duty from December 19 through December 3.