The Chapala police department has revealed the recent capture of six individuals suspected of operating an auto theft ring that has been preying on the lakeside area over the past several months.

The Lakeside School for Kids with Special Needs has received a welcome donation of hearing aids thanks to a youthful activist from Orange County, California.

The 69 dogs at the Lakeside Spay and Neuter Ranch survived a sudden brush fire on Tuesday, April 9 – a narrow escape that the center’s director Gudrun Jones calls “miraculous.”

The dynamic congregation of Lakeside Presbyterian Church has purchased property in San Antonio Tlayacapan to build a permanent home.

With the sudden mushrooming of downtown Chapala’s metered parking zone, the local government came under fire this week from scores of furious residents and business operators.

Two teenage siblings who went missing on Monday, April 8 were found safe and sound early the following morning by Chapala police. The sister and brother, aged 14 and 16, had holed up in a local hotel after they and their parents were targeted in a common telephone extortion ploy that authorities label as “psychological kidnapping.”