The annual three-day San Pancho Music Festival kicks off Friday, February 28 lasting through Sunday, March 2 in the beach town of San Francisco, Nayarit.

Working in collaboration with the Spanish authorities, Mexican police captured two suspected members of Basque separatist group ETA in the popular resort of Puerto Vallarta at round 4 p.m. Sunday.

The annual three-day San Pancho Music Festival will be held Friday, February 28 through Sunday, March 2 in the beach town of San Francisco, Nayarit.

Travelers will be able to drive from Guadalajara to Puerto Vallarta in less than three hours but not until the end of 2016.

Tourism operators in the Puerto Vallarta area have jumped aboard a project that will see some 500 local women start their own micro businesses producing soap, shampoo and cream for hotels guests. 

Neighbors of the Mayan Palace resort in Jarretaderas are complaining that they are under attack — by golf balls.

Agents of the National Immigration Institute (INM) detained a U.S. fugitive Wednesday who was wanted by the FBI in connection with 23 counts of mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering,  Arturo Zamora, the Jalisco government’s secretary general, announced Thursday.

The Costalegre Rotary Club hosts its seventh annual Chili Cookoff on the main plaza in Barra de Navidad on Sunday, January 26, from noon to 6:30 p.m.

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.