FOUR individuals were injured after the Carlos Romulo Bridge connecting Bayambang, Pangasinan, and Camiling, Tarlac in Barangay Wawa, Bayambang town, collapsed at 3:17 in the afternoon of Thursday, October 20. CCTV footage recovered by authorities revealed two trucks – a dump truck and an elf truck, were crossing the bridge at the…

SOME 30,000 informal settler families, most of whom live in hazardous areas in 44 towns and four cities of Pangasinan can look forward to safe sustainable relocations. This was reported by Alvin Bigay, chief of the Provincial Housing and Urban Development and Coordinating Office (PHUDCO), to the Sangguniang Panlalawigan on…

THE battle to defeat breast cancer among Pangasinan women shifted to a higher level after the Region I Medical Center (R1MC) announced it is offering free mammogram services to 30 women in observance of the celebration of the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month this October. The hospital encourages women to…

COVID-19 cases slightly increased in Region 1 after it logged 326 new cases or 5. 8% higher than the number of cases recorded the previous week, based on the data released by the Department of Health-Center for Health Development 1. DOH-CHD 1 said the 326 new cases should remind the…

THE Pangasinan Police Provincial Office will deploy some 3,000 policemen to secure people visiting cemeteries and in other converging places in Pangasinan during the observance of Undas 2022. P/Colonel Jeff Fanged, OIC provincial police director, said he will preside over a meeting with all chiefs of police next week for…

THE Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Region 1 confirmed that 138 centenarians have pending applications to avail of the P100,000 incentive from their office and explained the delay in the processing of the incentive. Baby Jane Donado, the Centenarian Focal Person in Region 1, said one of the reasons…

A 37-year-old tricycle driver was found dead in a creek in Barangay San Miguel, Natividad on Monday morning, October 17. Barangay CVO Anacleto Hidalgo was on his way to check his cow, when he discovered the body of victim Francis Sagun, a resident of Barangay Rizal, submerged in the creek,…

TWO drowning incidents have been recorded in Mangaldan town in the past week. A Grade 8 student died after drowning along Angalacan River in Barangay Nibaliw, Mangaldan on Friday, October 14. Gian Carlo Santos, 15, resident of Barangay Alitaya said town, was found dead along the river on Saturday, 15…