President Felipe Calderon inaugurated the enormous La Yesca hydroelectric dam on the Jalisco/Nayarit border on Tuesday.

In a bid to encourage the technological and educational development of indigenous communities in northern Jalisco, the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) is translating 40,000 Wixarika words for online use.

Jalisco State Congress employees ended a sit-in this week after being promised payment of their final two-week paychecks and end-of-session bonuses. 

President Felipe Calderon announced on Wednesday that the N7H3 bird flu outbreak in Jalisco has been “totally controlled,” with no new cases reported for 68 days.

Around 500 people were evacuated from their homes in the village Corralillos near Zapotlanejo, Jalisco after a Pemex gas pipeline caught fire Thursday, October 19.

In one of the current legislature’s final sessions, the Jalisco Congress unanimously passed the Protection of the Health of Nonsmokers Act this week.