Sunwing Airlines  will begin weekly flights from the city of Grande Prairie, Alberta to Puerto Vallarta on December 19, Canadian news reports say.

The designers of Puerto Vallarta’s revamped malecon have earned recognition from their peers, winning the top award at the biennial organized by the Federation of Architects Colleges of Mexico.

One of the most wanted cocaine traffickers in Canada was arrested in Nayarit on Wednesday, according to reports in several Spanish language newspapers.

In an incident of gang-related violence, a Canadian man with a history of drug trafficking was murdered in Nuevo Vallarta, Nayarit on Saturday morning.

Full public access to Tenacatita Bay is still being restricted even though the federal concession for the beach zone was returned into the hands of the La Huerta municipality last week.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) on Latin America is coming to Puerto Vallarta for its 2012 meeting from April 16 to 18.