A clutch of dignitaries this week cut the ribbon at the new installations of the Intel Guadalajara Design Center, underlying the long-term commitment that the world’s leading integrated circuit manufacturer appears to have toward Mexico and this region in particular.

After reluctantly agreeing to a new wage structure this week, Guadalajara bus drivers will no longer work on a commission basis and be compelled to “race” each other to get more passengers.

Restaurants and their chefs are again invited to participate in the second Tenedor de Oro culinary competition on May 29 at the Cabañas Cultural Institute. 

Known for decades as the “City of the Roses,” Guadalajara’s rose population has fallen dramatically over the past decade due largely to local government budget cuts. 

Jim Sheridan, the Irish director of hits such as “My Left Foot” and “In the Name of the Father,” told the Guadalajara Film Festival this week that he plans to work on a movie based on the exploits of the Irish San Patricio Battalion, that defected from the U.S. to the Mexican side in the Mexican–American War of 1846-8.

Want to let your dog run free and have fun in the park without the worry of disturbing others?

A few years back animal rights groups called out the city government on the poor health of the horses that guide tourists through the Guadalajara centro in the quaint antique carriages referred to as calandrias.

GDL-Denver flights begin July 7

The majestic Metropolitan Cathedral Thursday became the canvas for a 3D projection mapping technology project sponsored by Guadalajara city hall.

Red Cross volunteers will be fanning out across Jalisco over the next month as Cruz Roja Jalisco carries out its Colecta Anual (annual collection). Programmed between March 20 and April 27, the fundraising drive hopes to bring in at least 20 million pesos.

Tapatios, and people throughout Mexico, have a new way to record concerns about their city – whether they be erratic bus drivers, broken sidewalks or violent crime – thanks to the work of a Guadalajara tech company.

The death of an 18-year-old University of Guadalajara (UdG) student in an accident involving a city bus last week persuaded Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval to revoke the one-peso fare hike approved last year, with the exception of the Tren Ligero (subway) and Macrobus (BLT) routes.

The greater part of the construction of Guadalajara’s third subway line was put out to tender last week, a process that will finalize in a couple of months.

Regular visitors to Guadalajara’s Galerias mall can be torn between two choices of membership-only warehouse clubs situated on either side of Avenida Rafael Sanzio: Sam’s and Costco.

The first 30 kilometers of the  111-kilometer Macrolibramiento highway to the south of Guadalajara could be open to traffic by the end of 2014.

Colectivo 4:20, a Guadalajara-based group created via social media that is campaigning  to legalize marijuana in Mexico, took to the city’s premier avenue this week to disseminate information about the polemic substance.

The Guadalajara metro area’s green lung, the Bosque de la Primavera, a natural area protected from development by a 1980 presidential decree, has just over 800 owners, including 421 private property owners, about 400 communal agrarian users (ejiditarios) and the state government.

The fate of the of the Villa Panamericana, built on the outskirts of Guadalajara to house athletes and officials participating in the 2011 Pan American Games, is still hanging in the balance.

A government-backed outreach center that provides support, education and accommodation to pregnant girls and young women aged from 10 to 18 has opened in Guadalajara – the first facility of its kind in the country.

Local print and broadcast journalists take part in a demonstration in Guadalajara’s  Parque Revolucionario Sunday to draw attention to the ongoing climate of violence that has seen more than 140 of their colleagues killed or “disappear” in the past decade in Mexico.