General News

In a display of community support and following its motto “People Helping People,” the Lake Chapala Society (LCS), has launched a new program to offer free English classes to the Chapala Fire Department.

Early this week the Chapala government posted a notice on Facebook that a dry law (ley seca) would be applied in the municipality from midnight to 6 p.m. on Sunday, June 2, Mexico’s election day.

Scientists at the University of Guadalajara Institute of Astronomy and Meteorology (IAM) have forecast a delayed but eventually plentiful 2024 rainy season that could bring welcome relief for Lake Chapala.

Members of the Wixárica indigenous tribe gathered Friday, May 17 at the sacred site of Xapawiyemeta on Lake Chapala’s Isla de los Alacranes for the ritual renovation of the thatched roofed Xiriki temple situated there.

Alejandro Aguirre Curiel has been declared the winner of Chapala’s 2024 mayoral race based on the official results of the vote count reported by the Municipal Electoral Council (CME) on Wednesday, June 5.

The rumble of thunder and flashes of lightning in the evening sky on Tuesday, May 28 were hints that the first storm of the season was breaking out along Lake Chapala’s north shore.

The new Cruz Roja Chapala (CRC) healthcare facility is near completion, but still needs around six million pesos to finish construction and equip the building. Fundraising efforts are now going into high gear to get the job done.

The normally hushed grounds in the foreign section of the Chapala cemetery came to life on Monday, May 27 as the setting for the Memorial Day ceremony held in tribute to military personnel who died while serving in the armed forces of the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.