The third annual edition of the Chapala Indie Film Festival gets rolling on Friday, December 5, featuring a variety of activities linked to the theme Cinema without Borders, exploring topics such as migration, identity, displacement, and cultural diversity through the lens of independent filmmakers.

Chapala is bringing back its high-speed amphibious police squadron, thanks to a new agreement between the municipality and the Jalisco State Public Safety Secretariat.

The Chapala water and sewage management agency, SIMAPA, has relocated its headquarters from Ribera del Pilar to a new location within the city limits.

Four years from now, the town of Jocotepec will turn 500 years old. To begin the countdown to that historic milestone, the current municipal government is hosting the Primera Feria de la Fundación, scheduled Friday through Sunday, November 21-23.

The historic lakefront landmark known as Villa Virginia was reduced to rubble by a bulldozer on Tuesday, November 11, erasing a valuable piece of the city’s architectural heritage.

Foreign residents in Ajijic should get ready for the annual fiestas patronales, a ten-day celebration where locals let loose in honor of their spiritual patron, Saint Andrew the Apostle.