Blurring the lines between drug-related violence and terrorism, suspected cartel gunmen attacked two dozen electricity and gas stations in Michoacan in the early hours of Sunday morning.

To the displeasure of Jalisco’s judiciary, Governor Aristoteles Sandoval has vetoed next year’s  planned introduction of open court hearings where prosecutors and defense attorneys present their cases before a judge.

Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval affirmed this week that he supports a bill that would enhance the rights of same-sex couples but is not in favor of gay marriage.

Thousands of dead fish washed up on the shores of Lake Cajititlan this week, provoking fears of serious contamination in the water basin often referred to as Chapala’s younger sibling.

Razors, tampons, tacos, candy bars, Frosted Flakes – just some of the personal items that members of the Jalisco Congress have charged to expenses despite being the best paid state legislators in Mexico.

The official dengue figures for 2013 are double those for the whole of last year, the Jalisco Health Department (SSJ) reported this week.

Purchasing a computer may be cheaper than ever before but accessing the internet is still too costly for many Jalisciences, studies show.

The Jalisco Congress will debate a bill that seeks to identify and punish discrimination in the state.

Conservative groups have mobilized in an effort to block the passage of a law that would enhance the rights of same-sex couples in Jalisco.

Boosted by an influx of international tourists from far-flung destinations such as Russia, Jalisco has reversed the recent decline in the number of visitors flying into its airports.

Jalisco is just one heist away from a record year of bank robberies.

Jalisco’s First Lady, Lorena Arriaga, who heads the state Family Development Agency (DIF), was ridiculed on social networks this month for delivering unhealthy candy bars to impoverished indigenous children instead of nutritious food supplies.

At least four people were killed in Jalisco on Sunday, after tropical storm Manuel made landfall near the port of Manzanillo, Colima and proceeded to wreak havoc across western Mexico.

National Action Party (PAN) state legislator Gabriela Andalon has submitted an initiative to regulate marches and demonstrations in Jalisco that could provoke the wrath of defenders of civil rights.

Overpopulation at Jalisco’s prisons has decreased this year, mainly thanks to large numbers of federal inmates being transferred to penitentiaries in other states.

Six private hospitals in Jalisco have been slapped with a fine of more than 14 million pesos for price fixing, according to information released by the Federal Competition Commission (CFC).

Four men aged between 18 and 24 have been charged in connection with the murder of six young men and a 38-year-old waiter in Lagos de Moreno in July.

Legislator Hector Pizano Ramos has submitted a proposal to the Jalisco Congress that would increase the terms of mayors in the state from three to four years.

Federal police arrested a man driving a truck laden with over a ton of marijuana in northern Jalisco this week.

Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval has instructed his secretary general to send a package of penal reforms to the State Congress that would see terms of life imprisonment imposed for certain crimes, including murder with aggravating circumstances, murder of a police officer, feminicide (the killing of females by males because they are female) and parricide (killing one’s father, mother or other close relatives).