NOT FOR WALKING AT THIS TIME — A tricycle navigates the Baywalk in Lingayen on July 24, 2025 where rainwater accumulated following more than a week of downpour from the southwest monsoon or habagat enhanced by typhoons Crising and Dante. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
WARNING ISSUED FOR VOLUNTARY DEMOLITION DAGUPAN CITY Mayor Belen Fernandez sent stern notice to owners of fish pens that have been illegally set up near the mouth of the Calmay River, ordering them to demolish the structures before the local government takes action. The mayor discovered the unauthorized structures as…
WIDESPREAD flooding in Pangasinan following Typhoon Crising (international name: Wipha) and the enhanced southwest monsoon has so far displaced 189,711 families composed of 585,178 individuals across 27 municipalities and three cities, according to a report from the government’s Philippine Information Agency (PIA). Quoting the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management…
DAGUPAN Mayor Belen Fernandez thanked the Office of the Ombudsman for dismissing the criminal and administrative cases filed by the former majority in the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) against her, Vice Mayor Bryan Kua, and six other city officials, five of whom were members of the past minority bloc who passed…
LOCAL authorities are closely monitoring flood conditions across Dagupan City as heavy rains and high tide continue to affect various communities Ronald de Guzman, head of the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (CDRRMO), said it has been persistently raining for more than a week due to a passing…
BAMBOO POLES FOR FISHPENS—As Typhoon Crising is about to lash out Pangasinan on Friday, July 18, a big truck unloads bamboo poles on the right side of Jose de Venecia Expressway Extension facing the Calmay River, to be towed later by two or more bancas to an unknown destination in…
OFFICIALS and employees of the Dagupan City government paused from their afternoon work on July 16 and gathered at the city plaza at 3:00 p.m., about the same time the 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck 35 years ago, to offer a prayer in remembrance and for Dagupan’s continuous protection from nature’s…
FORMER five-time House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. was commended during the 35th commemoration of the 1990 Luzon earthquake for his role in the rehabilitation efforts in Dagupan City following the devastating calamity. At a program held on July 16, 2025, Ryan Ravanzo, secretary to the Sangguniang Panlungsod, recalled De…
ILLEGAL SALE OF PUBLIC LAND WARNED THE Sangguniang Panlungsod of Dagupan passed a resolution authorizing Mayor Belen Fernandez to apply before the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and other government agencies for a tenurial instrument over the public lands along the coast in Bonuan Gueset, Bonuan Boquig and Bonuan…
THE Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) recognized 57 fishermen from various towns in Pangasinan for their honesty and integrity after they promptly reported and turned over to authorities the illegal drugs estimated to be worth over P6.5 billion they found floating in the sea last June. The July 12 ceremony,…
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