On January 7, the Puerto Vallarta Navy League and the Casa Magna Marriott Hotel delivered more than 5,000 toys to children in Puerto Vallarta and areas of Nayarit in celebration of Three Kings Day.

A restaurant on Puerto Vallarta’s Playa de los Muertos that had opened for business on December 17  burned to the ground on January 7.

Lynne Benoit, the Canadian Consular Agent in the Puerto Vallarta/Riviera Nayarit area for the past 20 years, has stepped down from her position as of January 1.

Puerto Vallarta and the Riviera Nayarit are being jointly marketed under a 36-million-dollar campaign to promote Mexico’s tourist industry in the United States and Canada.

The Centro Universitario de la Costa (CUC) this month celebrates 50 years since the filming of “The Night of the Iguana,” the movie that put the Pacific coast resort on the tourist map.

The Puerto Vallarta police force has created a special department to focus on domestic violence.

Twenty-seven hotels and restaurants are participating in Puerto Vallarta’s 19th International Gourmet Festival, which runs from November 14 to 23.

The 58th International Fishing Tournament of Puerto Vallarta takes place from November 13 to 16.   There are major prizes up for grabs, including 180,000 pesos for whoever snags the biggest sailfish, another 150,000 pesos in the marlin category, 120,000 pesos for the biggest tuna and 80,000 pesos for the biggest mahi mahi.

Two men from Zapopan were shot dead and another was left seriously injured after their car came under fire in downtown Puerto Vallarta last month.

Puerto Vallarta will host Engage Mexico, an annual social media conference, at the Sheraton Resort & Convention Center from November 14 to 17.

The announcement that the Fondo Nacional de Infraestructura (National Infrastructure Fund or FNI) will become a partner in the Chalacatepec tourist complex – dubbed by Jalisco’s former governor as Mexico’s “New Cancun” – will contribute significantly to the economic regeneration of the region, says Francisco Ayon, president of the administrative committee of the Instituto de Pensiones del Estado de Jalisco (IPE), the pension fund for state workers, another of the investors in the polemic 1.3-billion-dollar project.

The judge who earlier this year jailed a Puerto Vallarta lawyer for the “presumed” extortion of the late Thomas White has found herself at the center of a storm following allegations that she attended a party thrown by the late millionaire’s chief attorney.

Just prior to his death, Thomas White had reason to believe that his ten-year ordeal in the Puerto Vallarta prison may have been coming to a conclusion.

With the high tourist season approaching, Puerto Vallarta hoteliers have been advised to be alert to the threat of norovirus, the vomiting disease whose season runs from November through March and peaks in January.

Thomas Frank White, a convicted pedophile from San Francisco, died at the age of 78 at a Puerto Vallarta hospital on Tuesday morning.

Federal police arrested alleged Juarez Cartel boss Alberto Carrillo Fuentes, alias “Ugly Betty,” at a hotel in the popular resort of Bucerias, Nayarit on Sunday.

Puerto Vallarta’s two taxi unions have inked an agreement that gives the go ahead for digital technology to be installed in the resort’s cab fleet.

A US citizen was killed in an apparent robbery at his home in Puerto Vallarta on Saturday.

Jalisco Tourism Secretary Enrique Ramos Flores has announced a 1.75-billion dollar in investment by 32 developers in 14 projects along the Costalegre. 

Mexico’s beaches are of inalienable public dominion and no statute of limitations can infringe this right, according to federal regulations governing the use and concessions along the nation’s coast, navigable waterways, beaches, estuaries and federal maritime zone.