In memory of a U.S. couple who died while house hunting in Mexico, survivors asked the public to pack something extra when traveling abroad to prevent further tragedies. A portable carbon monoxide detector could have saved Edward Winders and Barbara Moller, who died in November. A memorial service for the pair will be held in…
Merida, Yucatan — With Saturday’s self-inflicted death of a 26-year-old woman in Tizimín after an argument with her husband, the number of 2019 suicides in Yucatan has reached 100. According to the Ministry of Health, from January to May there were 95 suicides in Yucatan, most commonly in Merida. Three were minors. June saw five…
Rachel Jones, the “Hippie In Heels” travel blogger who last year moved from India to Merida, has died. The sad news was shared by her fiancé and friends on her Facebook page. The cause of death was not disclosed, but appears to have been sudden and unexpected. Jones was planning to wed later this year,…
The wreckage of the plane was found in a remote mountainous zone in the northern municipality of Ocampo.
Graziella de Louis Ponce, 63, the lone Mexican citizen to die in last weekend’s deadly plane crash, was about to retire and planned to live in Merida, her friends say.
Among the 157 people killed an Ethiopian Airlines crash is a woman from Yucatan who worked as a UN interpreter.
Óscar Cazorla was a proponent of Zapotec muxe culture
A standard-bearer of Yucatecan folk music will be missing from tonight’s Serenade at Santa Lucia park. The city is mourning Antonio Marín y Aguilar, who died Wednesday at the age of 85. Marín y Aguilar was well known for hosting shows for the city for many years. He also was a fixture at the Vaqueria,…
Author and longtime Merida expat Grant Spradling died at 89 after a series of recent health challenges.
Merida, Yucatan — Resources are available to anyone confronting self-destructive thoughts such as suicide. These hotlines are also open to friends and family. Suicides have increased both nationally and within Yucatan state. While it is a myth that suicides increase over the holiday season, headlines continue with tragic news from all regions. Around 215 people…
Emerson Kimball left behind messages expressing his delight in finding himself in Mérida.
Martínez Huchim was just last week honored for her work at Mérida’s Municipal Book Fair.
To Anthony Bourdain, Mexico was a “brother from another mother.”
A man who was possibly the oldest in the state died yesterday at the age of 110 in his hometown of Dzidzantún. Friends called him hardworking, pleasant, calm and friendly.
Human error, not a design or construction flaw, caused the horrific accident at Paseo 60, concludes a federal official.
Pressured by family to keep searching the rubble for a missing worker, crews found a fifth victim of Monday’s horrific construction accident.
An Arkansas man living in Mérida was found dead in his bunk while in the custody of immigration officials.
Rubén Flores Pérez, a Yucatecan inventor whose kitchen device was used around the world, has died at the age of 97.
The BMW that allegedly hit and killed an expat living at the beach has been seized, according to local media. But its driver is still at large.
George Samuelson, an artist who was part of the TAKTO Design Group, died Wednesday in an accident in his workshop.
Tributes are pouring in on the news of the passing of David Sterling, the author, designer and chef-owner of the Los Dos cooking school.
Cremation rates have nearly doubled in one year as cemetery space has become increasingly rare in Mérida.
Mérida’s cultural director Irving Berlín is reportedly out of a job after posting an insensitive comment about the late superstar Juan Gabriel.
Beloved Mexican singer Alberto Aguilera Valadez, better known as Juan Gabriel, has died at the age of 66.
That’s all for now
That’s all for now