General News

A day after this week’s tragic metro line overpass collapse in Mexico City that killed 24 people, Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro ordered an immediate safety review of Guadalajara’s three Tren Ligero lines, with special emphasis on the elevated section of the recently opened 21-kilometer Line Three.

In this monthly series, we republish a few of the headlines from our April editions 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago.

Guadalajara’s 24th annual May Cultural Festival will take a different turn from past editions, offering locals what organizers are calling “an unforgettable multi-sensory experience,” that includes both live and virtual events.

Guadalajara suffered a cruel blow on April 22, 1992, when a series of explosions ripped through city streets after thousands of gallons of gasoline seeped into a major sewer pipe line from a leaky gas duct.

New York-PV flights

JetBlue airlines announced this week that it will begin direct flights between JFK airport in New York and Puerto Vallarta, starting in either January or February of 2022.

More than year after the Covid-19 pandemic abruptly altered educational norms  worldwide, the future of university learning has irrevocably changed, and not necessarily for the worse, University of Guadalajara (UdG) Rector Ricardo Villanueva Lomeli reflected this week.

A University of Guadalajara (UdG) study has revealed that 20 percent of people vaccinated against Covid-19 with one dose of the Pfizer/BioTech vaccine are still at risk of infection and becoming seriously ill.

During the incident in Colonia Chapalita, at the same time as trying to protect a passerby to his left, a police officer taking cover beside a pickup truck while being fired upon by two armed men is taken by surprise by an unarmed woman,