127th INDEPENDENCE PROGRAM — Provincial government officials, employees and police personnel attend the 127th anniversary of the Philippine Independence program and ceremony at the Sison Auditorium in Lingayen. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
AUTHORITIES CONTINUE SEARCH AT SEA PHILIPPINE Coast Guard (PCG) and Navy teams continue to comb the waters off Pangasinan, Ilocos Sur, and Zambales to recover potentially more floating sacks of methamphetamine hydrochloride, locally known as shabu, now confirmed to have been dropped by the international crime syndicate ‘Sam Gor’. The Philippine…
MASSIVE TREE PLANTING SET THE 77th Agew na Dagupan on June 20 will be marked with massive tree planting, mainly at the soon-to-be closed dumpsite in Bonuan that is being primed for transformation into an eco-tourism park. City Legal Officer Aurora Valle, speaking during the 127th Independence Day observance at…
PANGASINAN trailed the three other provinces in the Ilocos Region in basic and functional literacy, according to the 2024 Functional Literacy, Education, and Mass Media Survey (FLEMMS) conducted by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). Data from the survey showed that 88.7% of Pangasinan residents aged five and above are considered…
PANGASINAN recorded 1,371 dengue cases from January to June 9, 2025, a staggering 129% increase from 598 in the same period last year. According to Eugenio Carlos S. Paragas, Pangasinan Provincial Health Office (PHO) manager for the Aedes-borne Viral Diseases Program, towns and cities with the highest number of dengue…
FAMILY TOBACCO AFFAIR — Family members of a tobacco farm in Barangay Banzal in Sta. Barbara town, get together to stitch newly harvested tobacco leaves on bamboo sticks before these are brought to a barn for drying. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
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…
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