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Firefighters battle local mountain blazes

Throughout this week, firefighters belonging to Civil Protection units from various municipalities have been battling intense forest fires in the mountain range that divides Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos and Lake Chapala’s north shore.


Tropical storm Andrés spawns early rains

A premature tropical storm spinning off along Mexico’s Pacific coast generated a streak of inland storms that swept across central Mexico over the past week, with the states of Michoacán, Colima and Jalisco getting the heaviest impact.

Advantage Chapala

An error resulting in an own goal by Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos gave Chapala a 1-0 victory in the first of two games in the semi-final of the 2021 Copa Jalisco amateur soccer tournament.

UdG launches survey of Lakeside expats

Post-graduate students at the University of Guadalajara (UdG) are reaching out to local expatriates to participate in a comparative research survey they are conducting concerning the international communities in the Lake Chapala area and Puerto Vallarta.