An urgent decision is required regarding the future of several thousand unregulated mototaxis, or auto rickshaws, circulating in suburban Guadalajara, state authorities admit.

Professional singers in the Jalisco State Choir (Coro del Estado de Jalisco) say they are reeling from a sharp downturn in their working conditions and, since January, the loss of a third of their 41 singers, who have been pressured to leave or quit due to discouragement.

The consistent rains have brought a sudden spike in the number of possible dengue cases being reported in Jalisco.

A contingent of 12 athletes from Jalisco will participate in the Rio de Janeiro Paralympic Games September 7-18.

Jalisco legislators voted Thursday to amend articles in the state Constitution that currently give hundreds of public officials immunity from criminal prosecution.

Dignitaries past and present this week paid their respects to former Jalisco Governor  Flavio Romero de Velasco, who died in Guadalajara June 2 at the age of 90.