General News

After recovering from three days of spicy hoopla and several weeks of intense bean counting to finalize accounts, organizers of the 2018 Mexican National Chili Cookoff revealed it was the most successful in the event’s 40-year history, especially for the eight charity organizations it supports.

A resident Canadian woman suffered a brutal beating Saturday, March 10 during a home invasion at a Chula Vista residence.

Prospects of first-rate hospital care at lakeside are looking bright following the groundbreaking ceremony for the Ribera Medical Center held Saturday, March 17.

The criminal case against a Chapala woman charged with sexual abuse of children enrolled in a local kindergarten appears to be nearing an end following a short hearing held Monday, March 12 that opened the door for a plea bargain deal.

Debate over the legality of driving golf carts on public thoroughfares turned into the last hurdle for approval of the final draft of Chapala’s own traffic rules under consideration by the City Council’s Public Security and Transit Commission.

Dozens of cyclists gathered Sunday, March 11 to take a spin along the new stretch of the ciclovía (bike path) bordering the Ajijic highway, created as a part of the urban improvement project carried out by the Chapala government over the past six months.

In the wake of the violent attack against resident expat Lisa Struss, friend and fellow Canadian Christine Philipson Steadman has launched Lake Chapala Crime Watch, a Facebook page to serve as a community channel for reporting and preventing criminal activity.

A recent photograph published in this newspaper of some 20 young students holding up this pamphlet at the reopening of the Alexander Humboldt bird watching trail in San Antonio Tlayacapan made us look into where the young ladies found their birding literature.