General News

The Zapopan municipal government notched up a milestone this week, confirming the planting of one million trees since Mayor Pablo Lemus took office three years ago.

U.S. design engineering services company Jabil is preparing to open its eighth facility in Jalisco in the Zapopan Technology Park.

The American School of Guadalajara has been presented with a special award from the Organismo de Nutrición Infantil (ONI), a respected non-profit that has dedicated itself to improving the diets of thousands of children in Jalisco for the past 64 years.

All the indications suggest that Ikea, the world’s largest furniture retailer, will open its first Mexican store in Guadalajara early next year.

The Delta Club Agility in the Colli neighborhood of Guadalajara has been slapped with a closure order following the discovery of sick and undernourished dogs during an inspection by the Consumer Protection Agency (Profeco) and Zapopan municipal authorities.

Overpriced toll road

Lowering the excessive costs of using the Guadalajara macrolibramiento (outer city ring road) will be high among the topics due to be discussed by the National Auto Transportation and Cargo Chamber with president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s transition team in coming days. 

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

“As far as we know, we’re the first in the world to offer this type of service – done through social media and giving our users financial incentives,” says Gilgamesh Angeles, a partner in a new Guadalajara business, RecyBank, that picks up a range of refuse at local homes, schools and businesses and, as the name implies, pays participants cash, products or services once they recycle a ton.