AUTHORITIES SLAM FAKE NEWS THERE is no confirmed case of Mpox, previously called monkeypox, in Pangasinan as of last week, as health and local officials denounced those spreading fake news on social media. The Region 1 Medical Center (R1MC) in Dagupan City, where the rumored Mpox patient is supposedly confined,…

DAGUPAN was the ninth of the 149 cities in the Philippines included in the list of the World’s Largest Urban Economies based on the 2025 Oxford Economics Global Cities Index. Of the nine Philippine cities, Dagupan was ranked seventh and 581st globally. Topping the list of Philippine cities is the…

WITHOUT COMMITTEE REPORTS DAGUPAN’S seven majority councilors, who all but one will be stepping down by June 30 after losing in the May 12 midterm elections, passed five ordinances last week that will increase the city’s annual expenses with new allowances for both local and national government agencies. With Councilor Alfie…

THE municipal government of Villasis warned residents and potential property buyers against the illegal sale and purchase of agricultural lands that have been subdivided into residential lots without proper permits and documentation. According to the June 2 advisory posted on the town’s official Facebook page, any transaction involving the sale…

TENSION remains high in Sual two weeks after the May 12 elections as the town’s vice mayor-elect received a threat on his life on May 24 in the form of two M-16 rifle bullets wrapped in one of his campaign leaflets. Incoming Vice Mayor Max Millan, currently a town councilor,…

A former local treasury executive of San Carlos City was acquitted by a regional court of the charge of malversation through falsification involving P9 million in public funds withdrawn in 2009. In a 37-page decision issued on April 28, 2025, Pangasinan Regional Trial Court Branch 77 Presiding Judge Rhodalyn N….

TO0-LATE-THE-HERO THE six defeated opposition councilors who still make up the majority in the current Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP), with only five sessions left before six of them leave their posts, want to bind the city government with their drafts of ordinances for recurring expenses in the form of allowances…

THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) received 11 election protests from Region 1, including six in Pangasinan, specifically in the towns of Rosales, Tayug, Natividad, San Nicolas, San Quintin, and Sual. Three of the protests come from Ilocos Norte and two from Ilocos Sur. According to Comelec Region 1 officials, the…