Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez took over as acting mayor of this city on Thursday, after Mayor Benjamin Lim suffered a stroke and was brought to Metro Manila for treatment.
If there’s a big winner in last Monday’s mayoral races in Pangasinan, it is Gwen Palafox-Yamamoto, a 35-year-old councilor who is on her first term in this western Pangasinan town.
In the gubernatorial race in Pangasinan, unofficial and partial results from the monitoring of the Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC) showed reelectionist Gov. Amado Espino Jr. leading Alaminos Mayor Hernani Braganza.
Modern forms of entertainment and technology are driving topnotch polosador (folk minstrel) “Totoy Bato,” Rodolfo Razon Laxamana in real life, at the sidelines of election campaign.
For gobbling up two grilled “bangus” (milkfish) in a little over a minute, Edgar Grado erased last year’s bangus-eating contest record during the Bangus Rodeo, an event of the Bangus Festival here.
Filipino-American trader and social worker Alma Quintans-Kern never thought that one day she would speak in the provincial capitol that her grandfather built almost a century ago.
A reelectionist councilor of Mangatarem, Pangasinan was hurt Thursday night after he was hit by a stray bullet as he passed by a political rally in a village there, police said.
Police on Wednesday arrested seven people and seized guns and illegal drugs in nine raids in different towns and cities in Pangasinan.
The joke going around this coastal city is that sari-sari stores will sprout like mushrooms after the May 13 elections because of the expected flood of grocery items that will come from the camps of its mayoral candidates, who both own shopping malls and supermarkets.
The proliferation of fish pens and cages in a river in Agno, Pangasinan, has become a source of intense political rivalry in the town as local candidates prepare for the start of the campaign period for the May 13 elections.
Police have identified nine towns and three cities in Pangasinan as potential hot spots in connection with the May 13 elections.
DAGUPAN CITY—The town government of Bolinao, Pangasinan, has asked the owners of the sunken ship, MV Harita Bauxite, to immediately stop the vessel’s oil from spilling into the West Philippine Sea to prevent further damaging coastal communities. Lawyer Ayar Montemayor, spokesperson of the Bolinao government, said Mayor Alfonso Celeste had written the ship’s owners [...]
With less than a month before the election campaign period for local candidates officially begins on March 29, the gubernatorial race in vote-rich Pangasinan has become the most anticipated event this summer.
