Why not recharge your life’s batteries with solar energy at the spring solstice festivities planned for Wednesday, March 21 at the Ixtepete pyramids on the outskirts of Guadalajara? More than 6,000 people are expected to turn out to welcome in the spring. Many new age groups hold special ceremonies at the site on this day, carrying on a tradition that has been celebrated by societies around the world for thousands of years.

Drivers heading down Calle Mexicaltzingo in Guadalajara have been given a helping hand in negotiating the many potholes on the street by a handful of activists and creative residents.

After wreaking havoc across Guadalajara, the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion has left messages across the city apologizing to local inhabitants.

Panic gripped the streets of Guadalajara last Friday. Sirens rang out, helicopters buzzed overhead and thick plumes of smoke blotted the afternoon sky as armed men left roadblocks of burning vehicles across the city and surrounding areas of Jalisco.

Mexico's Defense Department has confirmed the arrest of Erick Valencia Salazar, the leader of the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion, along with his second in command, who has not been named.

Armed groups commandeered vehicles, setting many of them on fire, in both metro area Guadalajara and other parts of the state of Jalisco Friday in an apparent response to the arrest of a drug capo earlier in the day.