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SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union – The Department of Education Ilocos (DepEd Region 1) is planning various interventions to provide wider access and better delivery of enhanced and complete basic education in all barangays in the region.

BONGABON, Nueva Ecija – Some 73 farmers from two barangays of this town graduated from 14-week long agri-training program that taught them basic and advanced organic farming techniques and agripreneurship under the Kabalikat sa Kabuhayan (KSK) of the SM Foundation, Inc. (SMFI) on March 11.

TABUK CITY, Kalinga — A total of 5,286 rice farmers received P5,000 each in cash assistance from the Department of Agriculture (DA) through its Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF)-Rice Farmers Financial Assistance (RFFA).

QUIRINO -- A series of training on aquaculture has been conducted in Aglipay and Diffun, Quirino to boost fisheries production and achieve fish sufficiency in the landlocked province.

BAGUIO CITY – Some twenty-eight public elementary and high schools, and universities here are now gearing up for the conduct of limited face-to-face classes, thanks to fast-improving situation.

QUEZON – Ten persons on board three vans and suspected of carrying still undetermined quantity of shabu were intercepted by authorities on Tuesday morning in Infanta town here.

As far as House Majority Leader Martin Romualdez is concerned, Bongbong Marcos’s son Sandro Marcos has what it takes to become a fine congressman. And that could happen as soon as later this year.

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan – The Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) has presented 223 firearms to Ilocos Regional Police Office (PRO 1) director Brig. Gen. Westrimundo Obinque during his first command visit here on Monday.

CAGAYAN — It is difficult for an individual farmer to survive if the operational expenses in land preparation, high cost of fuel, fertilizer and farm inputs are to be considered.

NUEVA VIZCAYA — Diadi police on Monday reported the arrest of a man for allegedly repeatedly raping his 4-year old daughter sometime in 2013.

TABUK CITY, Kalinga– Joint operatives of the Police Regional Office-Cordillera (PROCOR) and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) raided eight marijuana plantation Brgy. Bugnay in Tinglayan, Kalinga on Friday, resulting in to the discovery and destruction of P15 million worth of marijuana plants on Friday.

BAGUIO CITY – Some 270 families stand to have their own homes as the city government started the first socialized housing project in Barangay Irisan, this city.

BAGUIO CITY – Mayor Benjamin Magalong said the city government will need more time and data to come up with a definitive decision on the threshold for tourist arrivals.

AMULUNG, Cagayan — A car caught fire after it crashed into a street light along a major highway in Barangay Anquiray here, resulting in the death of the driver and his three passengers at around 11 p.m., Saturday, March 12, 2022.

PANGASINAN —- The return of tourists to the Hundred Islands National Park (HINP) and other tourist destinations in Alaminos City has begun as the province transitioned to Alert Level 1 from March 1 to 15.

BAGUIO CITY – For the first time since the Omicron variant surge in January, there was no Covid-19 case recorded here on Friday, March 11, 2022.

BAGUIO CITY – Elementary pupils resumed face-to-face (F2F)classes at the Gibraltar Elementary School, one of two schools granted the authority to do so after satisfying the requirements of the School Safety Assessment Tool (SSAT) of the DepEd.

PANGASINAN — A “person of interest” was reportedly identified in connection with the killing of a former dean of the Pangasinan State University (PSU)-Infanta campus on Tuesday, March, 8, 2022.