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Gas subsidies reinstated in northern Mexico days after being ended
Just days after being ended, gas subsidies in northern Mexico were reinstated, but they were not reinstated in Tijuana and Playas de Rosarito in Baja California.
April 5, 2022
Sonoran government, ASU sign collaboration agreement
Among other things, the agreement seeks to help train indigenous women as health promoters in their communities, according to a Sonoran state release.
April 4, 2022
Mexico’s axolotl 50-peso bill recognized as Bank Note of the Year
The front of the note features a scene from ancient Tenochtitlan. The backside is a peaceful scene of Xochimilco’s extensive canal system, along with a prominent ajolote (or axolotl), a critically endangered salamander native to the area.
April 4, 2022
Indigenous Mayo in Sonora plan to start growing marijuana
In a symbolic action Friday, members of the Tetecala movement planted two marijuana plants in front of the Sonoran government palace.
April 4, 2022
Sonora schools chief says all schools will be up and running by August
The vast majority of schools in the state are already up and running, but some still need rehabilitation work because many schools were vandalized during their prolonged pandemic closures.
April 4, 2022
Suspects in shooting along major Sonoran highway identified
In recent months, state and federal authorities have proposed resolutions to the longstanding and controversial informal tolls in Yaqui communities like the one where the recent shooting took place.
March 29, 2022
Independent researchers raise new doubts about Ayotzinapa case
Officials with the previous presidential administration claimed that the bodies of 43 missing students were incinerated at a dump. Now the investigators have disclosed for the first time that Mexican Marines were present at the site before those claims were made, though it remains unclear what exactly they were doing there.
March 29, 2022
Sonoran governor pledges to keep Holy Week tourists safe
Sonoran Gov. Alfonso Durazo says local, state and federal authorities are working together to ensure a safe and enjoyable Holy Week, which falls in mid-April this year.
March 28, 2022
Mexico’s presidential plane to be rented to public
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador suggested renting it out to couples getting married, families celebrating their children’s birthdays, or companies wanting to take employees on trips.
March 28, 2022
For some asylum seekers, embroidery eases the strain of waiting at the border
U.S. immigration policies have left migrants and asylum seekers waiting in Mexico for months or years, often in precarious situations. In an effort to ease the strain for those waiting, the binational group Artisans Beyond Borders has turned to fiber arts to bring comfort and hope to migrants in Nogales, Sonora.
March 25, 2022
Sonoran tourist destinations will be fully open for Semana Santa
Sonoran officials are preparing for large crowds at the state’s beaches and tourist destinations.
March 23, 2022
Sonora to invest more than $6M to improve health facilities
Sonoran leaders say they recognize the need to reinforce the state’s health services and will invest more than $6 million toward that goal.
March 23, 2022
Experts sound alarm on water management in Hermosillo
The bad water situation in the Sonoran capital Hermosillo is poised to only get worse without major changes, experts say. Climate change, rising demand, poor management and falling aquifers are among the factors behind what many experts say is a growing water crisis for the Sonoran capital.
March 22, 2022
Woman charged in fraud involving Rocky Point HOA
Among other elements, the alleged years-long scheme involved writing checks from the companies out to cash, or to the Cholla Bay HOA, and concealing the withdrawals, according to a copy of the indictment.
March 21, 2022
All of Sonora now at low coronavirus risk
That comes as all Mexican states achieve the same status for the first time during the pandemic.
March 21, 2022
Ford has nearly finished vehicles awaiting chips in Mexico
A Sonoran business group says that as many as 15,000 vehicles are assembled and parked, waiting for computer chips amid the ongoing global shortage. Such shortages have previously resulted in shutdowns at the plant.
March 21, 2022
Sonora among 10 states that account for vast majority of unidentified bodies
Human Rights Subsecretary Alejandro Encinas said some progress has been made, and in Sonora he pointed to mobile DNA labs and a planned identification facility.
March 18, 2022
After federal all-day school program ends, Sonora proposes plan to fill in gap
A federal all-day school program in Mexico is ending, and neighboring Sonora is one of several states that is proposing a new plan to fill in the gap.
March 18, 2022
Sonoran governor presents new Nogales train route
Sonora’s governor is continuing to push for the moving of a binational train line that runs through both Nogales, Sonora, and Nogales, Arizona.
March 17, 2022
8th journalist murdered in Mexico in 2022
Another journalist has been killed in Mexico this week — the eighth so far this year. Armando Linares was shot down outside his home Tuesday in the state of Michoacán.
March 16, 2022

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