The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The Jalisco legislature is not obliged to change the state Civil Code in the aftermath of a Mexican Supreme Court ruling that deems state laws that discriminate against same-sex marriage to be “unconstitutional.”
Student bus crashes
An end-of-semester beach trip to Zihuatanejo for University of Guadalajara high school students ended in tragedy Thursday after the Primera Plus bus they were traveling in crashed near the Michaocan town of Pinzandaran. One student was killed and 39 injured. Police say the driver was speeding and lost control of the bus
More than one month after the launch of Operation Jalisco, the major security campaign designed to rein in the violence in the state, only one senior cartel member has been captured by authorities.
The British Council in Mexico will evaluate the levels of 1,500 English middle school (secundaria) teachers in Jalisco after a national study revealed that 97 percent of public school students end their educations with virtually no knowledge of the language.
The state of Jalisco is under alert as Hurricane Blanca passes along the Pacific Coast this weekend on its way to Baja California.
Lakeside area authorities have labeled the side-by-side deaths of a losing candidate for mayor of Tizapan el Alto (on Lake Chapala’s south shore) and his spouse as a homicide-suicide case.
Federal authorities have rejected suggestions that 42 presumed drug cartel affiliates who died in a police operation at a ranch near Tanhuato, Michoacan were victims of a massacre.
Election day in Jalisco, Sunday, June 7, unfolded smoothly, with "nothing out of the ordinary" to report, according to Jalisco Electoral Institute (IEPC) President Carlos Manuel Rodriguez. The fireworks came after the polls closed with the realization that the political landscape in the state had altered radically – no more so than in metropolitan Guadalajara.
Heavy rains were expected in Guadalajara and its surrounding areas Friday as “Andres” became the eastern Pacific basin’s first tropical storm of 2015. At press time the storm was lying about 690 miles southwest of Manzanillo, Colima.
Andres is expected to strengthen to a hurricane by Friday, if not sooner, according to the Weather Channel.
The network predicted that Andres will curl toward the northwest in a day or so, and likely remain well off the Mexican coast, eventually weakening over colder water early next week.
