Local News

Fourteenth Annual Becas Ball: The Westin Regina Resort and Spa will once again be the appropriately elegant setting for what many here consider the social event of the season, this gala dinner-dance and auction benefiting exceptionally bright but economically needy students happening Saturday, March 4 from 7 pm–12.30 am.
01/26/06

PV to Host a New Champions Tour Event: March 27–April 2 the ClubCorp-managed Vista Vallarta Golf Club will see players aged 50 and over play a 54-hole, stroke-play PGA-sponsored tournament offering official prize money of $1.6 million.
01/26/06

Seventh Annual Fiesta Blanca Bash: The beautiful Le Bistro restaurant on the Isla Rio Cuale will host this year's important fund-raising event benefiting those with HIV/AIDS and providing programs to prevent it.
01/26/06

Swimsuit Models to Race in PV: If you find beauty — both the natural and the feminine kind —appealing, you might want to be in this beautiful resort town August 29–September 4 for the 21st Annual International Bikini Jam Week featuring photo shoots, nightly parties, fashion shows and a race featuring bikini-wearing models.
01/23/06

Compassion4Kids Brightens Needy Childrens' Lives: The 39 volunteers comprising the 2005 team sent to Puerto Vallarta by this Indianapolis-based non-profit organization provided both tangible and non-tangile support to local orphanages, day care facilities, schools and other places where they could improve the lives of needy children.
01/23/06

First International Puerto Vallarta Writers Weekend: The Puerto Vallarta Writers Group has arranged an interesting weekend for writers and would-be scribes March 17–19 at the International Friendship Club.
01/23/06

Two Fun-Filled Fundraisers Coming Up: Uniting their efforts on behalf of Vallarta-area children with cancer and other local charitable programs, the gringo International Friendship Club and the Mexican Asociacion Feminil Vallartense are hosting Fiesta Charra the afternoon of March 5.
01/23/06

Make a Wish Golf Tournament Coming Up: On January 28 the lush Flamingos Golf Course in Nayarit will host golfers of all abilities at the third-annual charity golf tournament to benefit very sick children by making their fondest wishes come true.
1/12/06

2005 a Banner Year for Cruise Ships and Hotels: Last year Puerto Vallarta received 259 cruise ship arrivals compared to 210 the year before, the Mexican Riviera route, which includes Cabo San Lucas, Mazatlan and our port, increasingly popular.
1/12/06

A Free Mexican Fiesta Every Week: Every Sunday for the next three months, a colorful and free-of-charge Mexican fiesta will be presented at Los Arcos, the outdoor amphitheater on the oceanfront walkway known as the Malecon.
1/12/06

PV's Dancing Ambassadors to Wow Argentina: In a couple of weeks, those attending South America's most important folkloric festival in Cosquin, Argentina, will be treated to performances by 20 members of Puerto Vallarta's official dance troupe, Xiutla, that we residents and tourists here get to enjoy at regularly scheduled free cultural events like the one above.
1/12/06

More People Chose PV Last Year: In 2005, Puerto Vallarta jumped to the fifth most desirable international destination from number 12 the year before, according to the authoritative annual Carlson Wagonlit Travel Trends Survey - which just goes to show that we're doing something right!
1/6/06

Alcoholics Anonymous Convention Coming Up: The local English-language AA group will host the Fourth Annual Sobriety Under the Sun convention at the Canto Del Sol Resort January 13 - 15, with recovering alcoholics coming from the US and Canada, and some of the tourists, snowbirds and expatriates living here expected to attend.
1/6/06

Fourth National Charro Championships Here in February: A big sporting event that's about as Mexican as you can get happens here February 16 - 20, the popular charreada as much an elegant custom steeped in history and tradition as a rodeo.
1/6/06