Sources: CNN
Two reporters are killed after a metal structure collapses during the Festival Ceremonia in Mexico City, Mexico. 2025-04-5
Mexican officials impose severe, months long cuts to Mexico City’s water supply, acting just a month after initial restrictions were ordered as drought dries the city's reservoirs. 2023-11-11
The National Electoral Institute reports that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's coalition Juntos Hacemos Historia is projected to win between 265 and 292 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, retaining its majority but without the two-thirds majority that it previously had. His party National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) saw losses in Mexico City, previously a MORENA stronghold. López Obrador subsequently vows to do more to help the poor. 2021-06-7
A magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes near the town of Pinotepa Nacional and is widely felt across Southern and Central Mexico, causing material damages in the states of Guerrero, Oaxaca and Mexico City. It is followed by a 5.8-magnitude aftershock. 2018-02-16
Mexican authorities arrest American-born Jose Maria Guizar Valencia, the alleged leader of the Zetas drug cartel, as he was entering a hotel in Mexico City's upscale neighborhood of Roma. 2018-02-8
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake strikes Mexico, killing at least 220 people and collapsing several buildings in Mexico City and widespread evacuations, hours after a yearly earthquake drill in commemoration of the 1985 Mexico City earthquake. 2017-09-19
Mexico City, facing the capital's worst air-quality crisis in over a decade, issues a temporary order that all cars remain idle one day a week. Today, authorities report a pollution index of 108 (bad) after low readings during Holy Week. Vehicles will also be forced from the roads one Saturday a month. The measure will begin next Tuesday, April 5, and run until Thursday, June 30, 2016. Starting July 1, improved technology will be in place at smog-check centers where all vehicles must be tested every six months. 2016-03-30
Tens of thousands of people demonstrate in Mexico City over alleged vote buying in the country's presidential election, which saw Enrique Peña Nieto elected. 2012-07-8
Thousands of people march in Mexico City to protest the 38,000 people that have died in drug-related violence since the beginning of the Mexican Drug War in 2006. 2011-05-8
Mexico City legalises the fining of shops which give away free plastic bags in an environmental initiative. 2010-08-19