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Welcome to Western Mexico News, by Vallarta Daily, your central hub for the latest Western Mexico news, breaking Western Mexico headlines, and up-to-the-minute Western Mexico politics updates. We cover Sinaloa, Nayarit, Jalisco, Michoacán, and Colima—from coastal resorts to inland capitals—ensuring you’re always in the loop on government decisions, economic trends, and cultural events that shape life along Mexico’s Pacific coast.

•January 11, 2019

The 3rd Nuevo Vallarta Car Show will exhibit 300 collection cars

More than 300 collection cars, motorcycles, and spectacularly modified cars can be admired at the 3rd Nuevo Vallarta Car Show 2019 to be held on...

•January 9, 2019

Guadalajara beats Mexico City in poor air quality in 2018

Last year, the Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara had more days of atmospheric pollution at a high level than Mexico City (CDMX). In the Jalisco city,...

•January 1, 2019

Jalisco starts 2019 with five earthquakes

Five earthquakes were registered in the first hours of the new year along the coast of Jalisco, according to the National Seismological. On the night...

•December 18, 2018

Copa Airlines begins direct flight between PVR-Riviera Nayarit and Panama

Copa Airlines began its new route between Panama City and Puerto Vallarta-Riviera Nayarit—its fifth destination in Mexico—on December 16th with twice-weekly flights to the Lic....

•December 7, 2018

Mexican cartel denies US consulate attack in Guadalajara

Local media in western Mexico are reporting that a drug cartel has hung up banners denying involvement in a Nov. 30 grenade attack on the...

•December 7, 2018

Mexico’s new government strikes Jalisco cartel finances

New Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is taking aim at the finances of the powerful Jalisco cartel in what a top anti-money laundering official...

•December 4, 2018

Ambush leaves six police killed in Jalisco

Six agents of the Jalisco Unified Force (FUJ) were killed and one injured when a command aboard three vehicles ambushed them in the center of...

•December 2, 2018

Explosive devices set off at US consulate in Guadalajara

A couple of explosive devices were thrown and detonated on Friday night inside the facilities of the United States Consulate of Guadalajara, confirmed the Office...

•November 19, 2018

Jalisco prepares for a second wave of migrants

The second caravan of Central American migrants is approaching Jalisco, so the state government is preparing to give them attention, according to official sources. During...

•November 12, 2018

Migrant caravan leaves Mexico City in route to Guadalajara

Several thousand Central American migrants have started the day hitching rides toward the western Mexico city of Guadalajara as they prepare to hit the Pacific...

•November 11, 2018

44 Wounded at the Yuridia concert at the Hard Rock hotel in Nuevo Vallarta

The number of people injured has climbed to 44 after bleachers collapsed in the 'preferred seating' section at the "Desert Tour" concert by Yuridia at...