2025 CAMPAIGN PERIOD BEGINS — Uniformed personnel of the Dagupan City Police Station man a Comelec checkpoint watching out for gun ban violators as the official campaign period for 2025 midterm elections begins. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
ELECTION PERIOD DAY 1 SIX persons were arrested in Pangasinan on January 12, the first day of the election period, for violating the gun ban imposed by the Commission on Elections (Comelec). In line with heightened security measures for the May 12 elections, police across Region 1 conducted over 500…
A 51-year-old woman died shortly after she was rushed to a local hospital with one gunshot wound in the back inflicted by a still unidentified suspect in Mangaldan town. Police investigations revealed that the shooting may have stemmed from suspicion that the victim was allegedly involved in spreading rumors about her…
(Filed by Ahikam Pasion) Man arrested in Mangaldan for forgery A 42-year-old man from Mangaldan has been arrested for allegedly forging documents. According to the Mangaldan police, the suspect identified as Alberto Soriano is facing charges of estafa linked to his forgery activities. He is currently in police custody and…
DANGER FROM MANILA TRENCH ALL of Dagupan, not just its coastal areas, will be affected in the event of a tsunami triggered by an 8.2 magnitude earthquake coming from the potentially active Manila Trench, according to Meliquin Bauzon, chief of the Public Alert Response and Monitoring Center (PARMC). In a…
Checking on a new flood-control project — Second District Rep. Mark Cojuangco conducts a brief site inspection at the Aplaya Floodgate in Sitio Aplaya, Barangay Pangapisan North, Lingayen, to ensure safety before the project is officially opened and utilized. The project is designed to manage water discharge from heavy rains….
THE approval of the minutes of a past council session can only be done by those who attended that session, based on an earlier legal opinion of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG). This was the ruling of Vice Mayor Bryan Kua when all seven members of…
AFTER OBJECTING TO SRI TWO opposition councilors secretly received their respective Special Recognition Allowance (SRI) of P20,000 each, like the rest of regular employees of the Dagupan City government as provided for in an appropriation ordinance (AO) passed by the Sangguniang Panlungsod at the time three of their colleagues were…
THE Guico provincial administration aims to improve the presentation of the role of Lingayen Gulf landings and the importance of war veterans through changes at the new Capitol Complex Plan (CCP) after it sought the approval of the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) to relocate World War II…
(Filed by 104.7 IFM Dagupan News) PDEA declares 34 Pangasinan towns and cities as drug-cleared THIRTY-FOUR of the 47 cities and municipalities in Pangasinan — with the exception of Sto. Tomas, which remained drug-unaffected — have been cleared of illegal drugs as of the end of 2024, according to the…
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