(L-R) Captain Ivan Roldan, commander of Coast Guard District Northwestern Luzon, and Candon City Mayor Eric Singson sign a deed of usufruct on April 17, 2024 for the establishment of a Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) radar tower in Candon City, Ilocos Sur. (Photo courtesy of PCG) The Philippine Coast...
CAMP DIEGO SILANG, La Union – The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency discovered 26,700 fully grown marijuana plants in five plantations with a total land area of 4,200-square meters during an eradication operation in Sitio Tangilig, Barangay Bunga, Sugpon, Ilocos Sur on Friday, April 12....
CANDON CITY, Ilocos Sur – Fifteen candidates are competing in the 2024 Miss Tobacco Philippines beauty pageant at the Candon City Arena here on Thursday, April 11. THIS year's 2024 Miss Tobacco Philippines candidates. (Mayor Eric Singson FB) Candidates represent tobacco-producing provinces all...
SAN VICENTE, Ilocos Sur – A man’s body was discovered on a rice field in Barangay Pudoc here on Tuesday, April 9. THE body of a septuagenarian was found on a rice field in Barangay Pudoc, San Vicente, Ilocos Sur on April 9. Police identified the victim as Guillermo Rebula, 75. Three...
VIGAN CITY, Ilocos Sur – The provincial government of Ilocos Sur and the city government of Vigan have offered a P100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the gunmen of former Sangguniang Kabataan chairman Marionne Tugade. POSTER offering a P100,000 reward for information...
CAMP PRESIDENT QUIRINO, Bantay, Ilocos Sur – A former Sangguniang Kabataan chairman from Caoayan, Ilocos Sur was gunned down on Quirino Boulevard here on his birthday on Monday afternoon, April 8. MARION Tugade poses for a selfie hours before he was killed on his birth anniversary on Monday,...
Troops discovered a New People’s Army camp and seized an arms cache following an encounter in Barangay Nagcanasan, Pilar, Abra, near the boundary of Santa Maria, Ilocos Sur, on Tuesday, April 2. VARIOUS items were recovered by the military in a New People's Army camp in Pilar, Abra. According to...
Major Rigor N. Pamittan, chief of 5ID public affairs office (Photo courtesy of Pamittan via DWDD) At least 402 individuals were forced to flee their homes when Philippine Army (PA) soldiers and New People’s Army (NPA) rebels engaged in a series of armed encounters in Pilar, Abra on Tuesday, April...
SANTA MARIA, Ilocos Sur – Classes were suspended on Wednesday, April 3, in Pilar, Abra and the activities on Tuesday night, April 2, in the 2nd Balicucha Festival here were cancelled following an encounter between the 50th Infantry Battalion and the New People’s Army (NPA) in the boundary...
CANDON CITY, Ilocos Sur – A vendor drowned on the sea in Barangay Calao-an here on Easter Sunday. MAP of Ilocos Sur with Candon City highlighted. Police identified the victim as Domell B. Peñaloza, 21, a resident of Barangay Calao-an. The victim, who was reportedly drunk, joined his...
CAMP FLORENDO, La Union – The fifth most wanted person in Ilocos Sur was apprehended by the police in Concepcion, Tarlac on Easter Sunday. A RAPE suspect in Ilocos Sur was nabbed in Tarlac on Easter Sunday. The suspect’s warrant of arrest for six counts of statutory rape was issued by the...
SANTA CRUZ, Ilocos Sur – Police rescued a four-year-old boy from drowning in the swimming pool of a beach resort in Barangay Sagat here on Black Saturday. Police Major Paul Vincent Tadeo, town chief of police, said the boy was accidentally pushed by another child into a deep portion of the...
