General News

Mission accomplished. The first annual Lakeside Science fair provided a public platform for promising local students to demonstrate their knowledge, practical skills and creative thinking in different fields of scientific study.

Eleven people died in a tourist bus rollover on a highway near the community of Pie de la Cuesta in Amatlán de Cañas, Nayarit on Friday, May 1.  

British Ambassador Judith Macgregor took a detour from the Guadalajara's Film Festival to visit the Lake Chapala British Society.

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Six universities join for summer school

Six U.S. universities will join with the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO) to form a summer school in Guadalajara this summer. Classes will be held at ITESO’s new campus in Las Fuentes. The six-week program will offer fully accredited courses in language, literature, psychology, history, political science and fine arts. The program will have the only new and completely furnished language lab in the city. Professors will be drawn from the six universities (Georgetown U., Gonzaga U., St. Louis U., Loyola U., St. Bonaventure and Holy Cross), as well as from a selected group of Mexican scholars. 

Jalisco reported a 44 percent drop in intentional homicides during the first four months of 2026 compared to the same period last year, according to Governor Pablo Lemus Navarro.

Crews simulate emergency procedures in downtown Guadalajara as part of the national annual earthquake evacuation drill held on May 6.

After more than a year of forced closure, legal battles and alleged misuse, the Museo Nacional del Tequila will finally reopen its doors to the public on June 5, state authorities announced.

Jalisco Governor Pablo Lemus has revealed that construction of the new Chapala–Guadalajara aqueduct could begin in early 2027, once the federal government has approved the necessary authorizations.