TO support the numerous businesses that have mushroomed along the Judge Jose de Venecia Expressway Extension in Dagupan City, the Sangguniang Panlungod passed a resolution asking the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) to open a jeepney route from Bonuan to Lucao and vice versa. Councilor and Majority Floor…
COLORFUL HORNS TO WELCOME THE NEW YEAR – Finally, more residents are opting for the tooter horns as noisemakers in the neighborhood to make sure no family member becomes an unwitting victim of a firecracker explosion. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
STATE weather agency PAGASA’s Dagupan City office forecasts good weather in the province on the evening of December 31 as Pangasinenses welcome 2025. Engr. Jose Estrada Jr., Chief Meteorologist of the PAG-ASA local office, said that no low pressure area or adverse weather conditions are foreseen within and immediately outside the Philippine area….
THE Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) in Pangasinan reiterated its reminder to the public to be extra cautious against fires during the holidays, especially those who leave their homes unattended during the celebrations. Fire Senior Superintendent Jerlin Jerden Sales, BFP Provincial Fire Marshal of Pangasinan Provincial Office, said if individuals or families…
THE Regional Epidemiology Surveillance Unit (RESU) recorded 458 HIV cases in Ilocos Region from January to August 2024, with Pangasinan logging the highest number at 272, including 33 in Dagupan City. La Union was second with 70 cases; Ilocos Sur, 61; and Ilocos Norte, 55. Most of the cases were…
(Filed by 104.7 IFM Dagupan News) Family hopeful of finding missing 17-year-old boy THE family of a 17-year-old boy from Barangay San Miguel, Calasiao who went missing a month ago is not losing hope that their kin is still alive and will soon return home. The mother of the missing…
NO BAN JUST REGULATED SALE – Vendors of firecrackers and polytechnic devices are cramped in an area at the A.B. Fernandez West where the city police designated it as a firecrackers zone for closely monitoring of the sale of only safe firecrackers per a city ordinance. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
COASTAL TOWNS AND CITIES TOLD TO PREPARE LOCAL government units of coastal towns and cities in Pangasinan and the rest of Region 1 were reminded anew to beef up their evacuation and preparedness plans following a series of recent earthquakes off Ilocos Sur, which the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and…
IN a bid to protect the public from the dangers of firecrackers and pyrotechnic devices, Bolinao Mayor Alfonso Celeste has issued an executive order imposing a total ban on the manufacture, sale, distribution, and use in the town. The directive, signed on December 20, 2024 and posted on the official…
OPPOSITION DADS BOYCOTT SPECIAL SESSION THE new minority at the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) boycotted a special session on December 23 called by Mayor Belen Fernandez for the passage of Supplemental Budget No. 7-2024 that calls for the payment of P5.4 million for the gratuity pay of P7,000 for each job order employee…
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