General News

Sacred ground on Lake Chapala’s Isla de los Alacranes is finally in the process of being identified as an official site of Jalisco’s cultural and historical patrimony.

A path has been cleared for same-sex couples to marry in the state of Jalisco without any impediment following a landmark ruling made Tuesday by Mexico’s Supreme Court.

Visit the San José de Gracia Orchid Festival, with an overnight stay included, on Friday, February 5 and Saturday, February 6.

Having reached the half-way point of his administration, Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval is expected to paint a rosy picture of the state’s economic progress in his third annual report (informe) Tuesday, February 1. 

The U.S. Consulate in Guadalajara is to support a program to train 50 women leaders in various municipalities of Jalisco.

January 8 and 11 were the coldest days of the winter in Jalisco, according to Gustavo Salgado of the University of Guadalajara’s Institute of Meteorology. Temperatures fell to as low as one degree Celsius in some regions outside the metropolitan area.  Meteorologist Hector Magaña said the spells of cold weather will be shorter in duration and expected the first months of the year to be generally dry, due to the El Niño phenomenon.

The Jalisco Human Rights Commission says enforcing a regulation requiring all motorcyclists riding bikes less than 250cc to wear vests bearing their license plate numbers would be unconstitutional. 

Jalisco authorities may have overpaid significantly for a property in Chicago, Illinois purchased in 2009 by then state governor Emilio Gonzalez Marquez, the state comptroller suggested this week.