General News

Mexican discount airline Interjet will soon be flying direct from Orange County’s John Wayne Airport to Guadalajara, as well as Mexico City and Los Cabos.

For the second time this year, armed criminals laid siege to Guadalajara on Saturday,  August 25, burning buses and blocking streets around the outskirts of the city and surrounding areas of Jalisco.

Guadalajara is the most prosperous city in Latin America and the 26th best off in the world, according to a United Nations (UN) study released this week.

After weeks of speculation and campaigning, the future of Albert the Bengal tiger has finally been resolved.

Guadalajara’s bid for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games is at risk due to outstanding debts from the 2011 Pan American Games, the head of the latter event’s Organizing Committee (COPAG) admitted this week.

Debt in the eight municipalities that make up the Guadalajara metropolitan area has almost doubled to 6.38 billion pesos in the last two-and-a-half years. This represents a rise of 82 percent from 3.5 billion pesos when the last mayoral administrations began in 2010.

A new award to honor outstanding work in literary translation will be presented for the first time at the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL), scheduled November 24 to December 2.

The Jalisco Health Secretary (SSJ) is to continue fumigating homes in Guadalajara in order to prevent a dengue outbreak, despite staff twice being threatened at gunpoint when attempting to carry out their work.