The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Two federal environmental agencies have given the green light for Jalisco state legislators to start a process that will eventually designate the Santiago and Verde watersheds as naturally protected areas.
Jalisco Governor Jorge Aristotoles Sandoval looked on proudly as pre-school, primary and secondary school students were given free supplies on Monday, thus keeping a promise he made during his election campaign last year.
Car insurance (third party minimum) is obligatory in Jalisco but only one-fifth of all motorists in the state are taking out cover for their vehicles, according to two automobile sector institutions.
Legislators from the conservative National Action Party (PAN) say they have not been directed by Roman Catholic leaders to oppose the same-sex union bill currently in the committee stages of the State Congress.
A group of retired citizens protested outside the Jalisco Government Palace this week to demand the release of federal pension funds denied to them since the beginning of the year.
Despite having been freed by a court in Miami last month, Sandra Avila Beltran, better known as “La Reina del Pacifico” or the “Queen of the Pacific,” found herself behind bars once again upon returning to Mexico this week.
A seven-year-old girl was stung to death by a swarm of bees in San Agustin, Tlajomulco on Sunday.The girl, identified only as Jocelyn, died just before 8:30 p.m. at a private hospital in Santa Cruz de las Flores after being stung more than 50 times that afternoon.
Residents of Temacapulin rejoiced last Thursday at the news that the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation had blocked plans to flood the town by raising the Zapotillo dam to 105 meters.
The National Defense Department (Sedena) destroyed hundreds of marijuana and opium poppy plantations across western Mexico last month.
