Free cell phones in campaign rally
By Nathaniel R. MelicanMartell Soledad, a candidate for councilor in Valenzuela City, has added cell phones to the array of giveaways—T-shirts, baseball caps and trinkets—during election campaign rallies.
Martell Soledad, a candidate for councilor in Valenzuela City, has added cell phones to the array of giveaways—T-shirts, baseball caps and trinkets—during election campaign rallies.
The proposed housing project for hundreds of families who lost their homes in a blaze last month in Valenzuela City has become a step closer to becoming a reality.
Valenzuela City residents will soon receive more accurate rain forecasts and flood warnings with the installation of an Automated Weather Station (AWS), the local government said on Saturday.
Motorists may have a reason to celebrate. If all goes well, in three year’s time, new routes that link McArthur Highway in Valenzuela City and C-3 Road in Caloocan and Navotas with the Northern Luzon Expressway will be at their disposal, a project that, when completed, will help ease traffic on major thoroughfares such as Edsa, according to Manila North Tollways Corp. officials.
They posed as businessmen setting up an ukay-ukay store and pretended to build a cabinet and a table for the shop. They were that “organized.”

What was supposed to be routine procedure at a tire factory in Valenzuela City led to an explosion and the death of an employee Tuesday morning.
Starting next month, residents of Valenzuela City who seek medical attention need not worry about insufficient beds or flash floods entering the city hospital.

Paying taxes and other government fees through the mobile phone? Soon, residents of Valenzuela City could be doing just that. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) recently selected the city to pilot its Scaling Innovations in Mobile Money (SIMM) project aimed at making financial transactions with the local government easier to settle.

The state weather bureau issued a yellow rainfall advisory over Valenzuela City Wednesday night.

Five people were killed, including the suspect, who allegedly massacred a family in Valenzuela City just a little after dawn Wednesday, police said.

Thieves posing as customers struck at a gasoline station, getting away with over P18,000 worth of the business’ earnings in Valenzuela City, early Sunday, police reports available on Monday showed.

President Benigno Aquino’s visit with the huddled masses in temporary shelters around Metro Manila on Thursday took him to Gen. T. de Leon High School in Valenzuela City where, all of a sudden, the sun that had been hiding since Monday shone and the sky that had since been gray turned blue.

Three people died in Valenzuela after drowning in the flood caused by the heavy rains last Tuesday, Radyo Inquirer 990AM report said.