The Hard Rock Hotel has added a soft touch, embracing littlies as well as adults at its Cancun resort, finds Leena Tailor.

The elaborate prison escape of Joaquin "El Chapo" (Shorty) Guzman may have cost US$50 million ($74.6 million) including huge bribes to prison officials.

The kind of tunnel that led Mexico’s most powerful drug lord to freedom would have been more than a year in planning.

The dramatic escape of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman sounds almost too elaborate to be true.

"It was just a miracle. I counted we had about five ways to die. It was pretty close," said sailor Murray Vereker-Bindon.

Tim Stewart experiences exotic flavours on his chef's pilgrimage through Mexico.

Every Happy Meal sold at a McDonald's in Mexico from this weekend will include a New Zealand kiwifruit.

Days of flash flooding, tornadoes and rain across central Texas and Oklahoma swept away hundreds of homes and left at least five people dead.

Nine babies who were discovered alive after a gas blast at a maternity and children's hospital in Mexico City are being DNA tested by authorities in an attempt to reunite them with parents.

Ana Cecilia Mijangos moved to New Zealand from Mexico with her partner Luis Cabrera in 2009 with little English and no clue about what she was going to do here.

Kevin Pilley cradles Tequila Sunrises while watching cliff divers in Acapulco.

Kiwis can be found nearly everywhere there's a rugby ball, even in Mexico.

Affinities, rather than the geographical proximity between two countries, are often the true basis for a close relationship, writes Wynne Gray.

Lydia Ko has made a strong start at the Lorena Ochoa Invitational tournament in Mexico City. The world number three and LPGA rookie of the year fired a four-under 68 to sit in third place.

Beneath the stars as dusk fell, Maria de los Angeles Pineda and her husband were dancing. But then came word that a demonstration was forming in the town plaza.

Mexican nuclear official have said a stolen container of radioactive material has been found empty.

Mexico's president has denied a tweet by Justin Bieber saying the singer met with the president and his family prior to a show.

The death toll from days of flooding in southern and central Mexico has risen to 80, and new reports of landslides in a village near the resort of Acapulco threatened to drive the number of casualties even higher.

The death toll has risen to 47 from the unusual one-two punch of a tropical storm and a hurricane hitting Mexico at nearly the same time.

Tropical Storm Ingrid and the remnants of Tropical Storm Manuel have drenched Mexico's Pacific and Gulf coasts with torrential rains, flooding towns and cities, cutting off highways and setting off deadly landslides.