Local News

Altruistic Crusade to Help Needy Local Kids: Officially kicking off Saturday July 22, a six-month campaign to raise funds for Vallarta-area youngsters needing help. To inaugurate the crusade, Mayor Gustavo Villasenor will cut the ribbon at 7:30 pm at Puerto Vallarta's Plaza Hidalgo.
7/21/06

Local University Folkloric Troupe Heading to Montreal: The University of Guadalajara's campus in Vallarta, Centro Universitario de la Costa, recently announced that its talented and hard-working Vallarta Azteca dance troupe will participate in this summer's exciting Les Week-ends du monde festival in this vibrant Canadian city.
7/21/06

This Low Season is the Slow Season for Traffic: There's construction everywhere in Vallarta these days, buildings rising and bridges being widened to accommodate the resulting traffic as more and more folks move here as well as visit.
7/21/2006

The Four Seasons Punta Mita Golf Course Named World's Best: The Four Seasons Resort Punta Mita — the flagship resort of the innovative 1,500-acre, master-planned community an hour north of Puerto Vallarta — has taken top honors in three categories of Conde Nast Traveler's 11th annual Reader's Choice survey on the world's finest golf resorts.
7/14/06

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation's Inaugural PV Fishing Tournament: Called Hook the Cure, this event happens October 26 - 29. Vallarta a top resort destination offering some of the best sport fishing in the world, with each cast comes the possibility of not only setting a record, but finding a cure for what is the most common, fatal genetic disease in the US affecting children and young adults.
7/14/06

Citizens Get Reprieve for the Isla Rio Cuale: The pretty ribbon-like island dividing El Centro from the South Side is one of the town's last tranquil green spaces, home to stately old trees and the iguanas and birds that live in them.
7/14/06

US Consular Agency Relocates: As of July 5th, American Consul Kelly Trainor and her staff are offering their services at a new location in Nuevo Vallarta's Paradise Plaza.
7/74/06

Local Dolphin Day Camp Gets Amazing Results: In conjunction with Living From the Heart, a non-profit organization based in Colorado, Vallarta's world-class Dolphin Adventure Center in Nuevo Vallarta now offers dolphin assisted therapy programs for children and adults with challenges, including learning disabilities, autism and Down syndrome.
6/19/06

Jalisco and Nayarit Delighted with Mexican Olympics Results: The state where Puerto Vallarta is located had the largest number of winning athletes at this year's national Olympics in Acapulco May 12 - 16, Jalisco youth bringing home 229 gold, 182 silver and 200 bronze medals.
6/16/06

More than 2,000 Participate in Recent International Sports Classic: The thirteenth edition of Vallarta's largest community sports event saw athletes from Canada, the United States and all over Mexico here in Puerto Vallarta May 19 - 21, competing and having fun.
6/13/06

Third Annual Altruism Festival Benefits 20 Charities: In just three years, this fund raising event organized by US Consul Kelly Trainor and the Marriott CasaMagna has become one of Vallarta's most important and well attended.
6/13/06

PV Marks World Environment Day: Its theme Give Earth a Chance, June 5 is the UN-mandated day to stimulate worldwide awareness of the environment. Calling on every one of us to contribute to the healing of our planet, here in Vallarta where the breathtaking pace of construction is raising urgent environmental issues, we will celebrate for several days.
6/5/06

New Twist to Next Marina del Rey to PV Yacht Race: The longest and oldest race to Mexico's mainland, next year's event will incorporate the scope of several other popular races to Mexico by marking the approximate finishing points of those shorter races with navigational "crossing lines."
6/5/06

Apple Vacations Adds Dallas-Vallarta Flights: From now until August 31, getting between here and Dallas, Texas will be a breeze, a twice weekly charter service operating between Puerto Vallarta and Dallas-Fort Worth Thursdays and Sundays on Sun Country Airlines.
6/5/06