The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Parents kept their kids away from school early this week in the wake of a false, quickly spreading rumor that drug gangs were planning to kidnap students.
The manager of a small money exchange outlet on Avenida Rafael Sanzio in Guadalajara’s Colonia La Estancia was shot to death after he resisted an attempted robbery over the December holiday.
State Transportation (SVT) Director Diego Monraz has rejected a proposal to ticket women who apply make-up while they are driving, as he says it is discriminatory.
A young man’s life ended this weekend when he stepped out of his house with some friends during the New Year’s celebrations in the early hours of Sunday morning.
A new bicycle lane is open on Avenida Washington, but Guadalajara City Hall might have jumped the gun on the project.
Congested commuting avenues such as Vallarta, Lázaro Cárdenas, Patria, López Mateos, and the Periférico are being tagged by transportation chiefs as possible beneficiaries of a carpool, or high occupancy lane.
A small fire destroyed one of the curtains in Guadalajara’s Teatro Degollado on Tuesday. Outside the theater, witnesses noticed smoke billowing from the windows. A theater lamp started the flames at around 10:30 a.m., although theater personnel just as quickly extinguished them before firefighters arrived.
The Instituto Mexicano de Seguro Social (IMSS), the government-run health care provider, is investing 354 million pesos (26 million dollars) in state-of-the-art cancer fighting equipment at the oncology department, located in Hospital de Especialidades at the Centro Medico de Occidente in Guadalajara.
Guadalajara city hall has launched an artistic program to brighten the municipality by decorating 18 tunnel interiors and two bridges.
Culture Secretary Myriam Vachez recently opened the application process for local artists and graphic designers. The designs must be creative but not distract drivers, she said. The budget for the project is five million pesos.
The design to the left has already been approved for the tunnel at Washington and Inglaterra.
