NO TIMELINE FOR CORRECTION GIVEN  THE Dagupan City Health Office (CHO) has issued a Sanitary Order to the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) Male and Female Dormitories, identifying several sanitary defects and violations in the management of their wastewater discharged into a nearby drainage canal that leads to…

SANS ANY MORE POLITICAL ROADBLOCK THE Maternity and Children’s Hospital, which had P150 million allocated by the national government but reverted to the national treasury in 2024 due to delays caused by the previous majority in the Sangguniang Panlungsod, is set to finally move forward in 2026, as announced by…

LESSER EXPLOSIONS NOW THAN BEFORE THIRTY-four people were injured due to firecracker explosions from December 31, 2025 to January 2, 2026,  according to records from the Region 1 Medical Center in Dagupan City, as the Philippine National Police reported peaceful celebrations of the New Year across the province, with no untoward…

A tragic explosion occurred on Christmas Day, resulting in the deaths of two individuals—a young girl and an adult male—and injuring eight others. The incident took place around 7:00 p.m. on a two-storey house in Sitio Boquig, Bacayao Norte, where firecrackers were being packaged for sale ahead of the New…

ROUGH SAILING FOR PROJECT SEEN  TWO Philippine cardinals and 27 other archbishops and bishops from across the country lent their voice to the growing opposition to the construction of a nuclear power plant not only in Pangasinan, but anywhere else in the Philippines. Cardinal Virgilio David of Kalookan and Cardinal…

NOT IN PANGASINAN OR ANYWHERE ELSE THIRTY-three bishops across the Philippines, led by Lingayen–Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas, have issued a strongly worded pastoral letter rejecting the proposed construction of a nuclear power plant in Labrador, Pangasinan—or anywhere else in the country. The letter, released on December 4 and addressed to national…

INTEGRITY OF VOTE-COUNTING MACHINES QUESTIONED ROSALES Vice Mayor John Isaac Kho promised to fight what he called an “unfair and baseless” decision of the Regional Trial Court that voided his proclamation and installed his opponent, former Vice Mayor Susan Casareno, as the duly elected official. Kho, 33, faced the media…

ON COMPLAINT FILED BEFORE OMBUDSMAN FORMER Congressman Christopher “Toff” de Venecia firmly dismissed recent allegations concerning purported “ghost flood control projects” in Pangasinan’s Fourth District, where he served three consecutive terms, labeling these claims as “completely false and unfounded.” De Venecia denied accusations of misconduct, plunder, and malversation of public…

OPERATOR IN HIDING, SUBJECT OF POLICE MANHUNT ONE person was killed and four others injured when a clandestine firecracker factory inside a compound in Barangay Tebeng, Dagupan City exploded at 3:45 p.m. on November 16, barely one month ahead of the “OPLAN Iwas Paputok” of the Department of Health (DOH),…

BATTERED BY STORM SURGE AND HIGH TIDE A total of 3,156 families or 6,241 individuals were evacuated to 33 evacuation centers across the city before the onslaught of Super Typhoon “Uwan.” Most of the evacuees were residents living near coastal areas who either left voluntarily or were forcibly and preemptively…