General News

Guadalajara metropolitan area mayors agreed this week to press ahead with a plan to create an “intermunicipal” police force to maintain law and order in the Jalisco capital across municipal boundaries, even without the blessing of the state governor.

Noted journalist, novelist, poet and university professor Luis Gonzalez de Alba, one of the leaders of Mexico’s 1968 student movement, has taken his own life at the age of 72.

Some 100 Uber taxi drivers staged a protest outside the Jalisco Government Palace Monday to highlight growing insecurity in the metropolitan area following the murder of a colleague the previous week.

Police have arrested three men in connection with the killing of a student who died on his 17th birthday during a carjacking in the Colonia Miguel de la Madrid neighborhood of Guadalajara, near Ciudad Bugambilias.

For most people living on the American continent, October 12 is Dia de la Raza (or Columbus Day), a solemn holiday marking that culture-shattering autumn day when Cristobal Colon first set foot in the New World.

Flooding from last Friday night’s storm impacted more than 200 homes in 20 fraccionamientos, or subdivisions, in the municipality of Tlajomulco.

A sensational display of prize farm animals is at the heart of Jalisco’s 51st annual Expo Ganadera, opening Friday, October 7 for a four-week run at Guadalajara’s Livestock Union fairgrounds.

The Fiestas de Octubre begins this weekend and if you’ve been to a state fair in the United States, you’ll know roughly what to expect, although this city’s version has a distinctly Mexican flavor.