General News

Federal police are patting themselves on the back after securing two large drug hauls in the municipality of Tlajomulco in recent days.

Imagine driving in fierce rains when the street in front of you opens up and  disappears. That’s what happened during a rainstorm on Calle Juan Alvarez in the early hours of Monday.  

The socavon (sinkhole) in the Santuario neighborhood, not far from the Federal Palace, measures six by six meters and is three meters deep.  The collapse also exposed the sewage drain running under the street.

Yellow cab drivers blocked Guadalajara streets for the second time in two weeks on Monday after learning that the Jalisco state government has tentatively agreed to “regularize” radio taxi firms and, possibly, provide permits to drivers of the polemic Uber cars.

Construction of the third subway line in Guadalajara is causing continuous headaches for residents.  The latest inconvenience will be the dismantling of the pedestrian bridge at the intersection of Avila Camacho and Patria, next to Plaza Patria.

In what on the surface appears to be a case of road rage, a motorcyclist was shot to death in the Colinas de Atemajac neighborhood of Zapopan on Monday, July 20.

Organizers of the Catholic anti-marriage equality group “Jalisco es uno por los niños” say they are expecting around 100,000 people to turn up for their march scheduled to start at 4 p.m. on Saturday, July 25 at Guadalajara’s Minerva traffic circle.

The pothole plague is testing Guadalajara and Zapopan work crews to the limit, but it’s a war they cannot win, experts say.

Twelve recently acquired Adelie penguins became instant celebrities at the Guadalajara Zoo on Saturday when the facility's latest attraction – the Reino de Pinguinos (Kingdom of Penguins) – opened to much fanfare.