The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
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.
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.
Senior officers at the Jalisco Red Cross are urging automobile owners paying their annual registrations (refrendos) to say yes to the voluntary donation of 30 pesos destined for the institution.
Jalisco state authorities have launched a “Panic Button” (boton de panico) smart phone app that can be used in real time to report emergencies.
Temperatures through the first three months of 2016 in Jalisco are likely to be around one degree Centigrade lower than normal, according to meteorologist Ángel Meulenert of the Universidad de Guadalajara.
Jalisco’s Programa de Verificación Vehicular Obligatoria (obligatory vehicle emissions testing program) is in a constant state of flux, no more so than in 2016. The year has started with several changes that will culminate with the launch of a completely revamped program, authorities say, later in the spring.
Andres Moreno, 37, once dubbed the world’s heaviest man, died on December 25, two months after he underwent extreme weight loss surgery at a Guadalajara clinic.
A new unit dedicated to investigating missing persons has opened under the umbrella of the Jalisco Attorney General’s Office (FGE) in Guadalajara.
Jalisco student Mario Manuel Gurrola Morga has become the second youngest Mexican to be selected to continue their studies under the mentorship of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Gurrola is in the sixth semester of a degree course in Computer sciences at the Instituto Tecnológico Superior de Zapopan and will be working on an algorithm prediction research project at the Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley.
