The Cabagan-Santa Maria Bridge in Isabela will open to traffic on Mar. 2 with strict limits on vehicle weight and height to ensure public safety, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) said. The bridge has been closed since its partial collapse in February 2025, which rendered it...
The temporary bridge replacing the collapsed Cabagan-Santa Maria bridge in northern Isabela is nearing completion and expected to reopen to light vehicles in March 2026, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) announced Thursday, Feb. 19. DPWH Cagayan Valley reported the construction is...
CALASIAO, Pangasinan – A police officer rescued a child who was accidentally locked inside a car on Monday, Jan. 20, in Barangay Poblacion 1, Santa Maria town, Isabela province. Responding Police Executive Master Sgt. Rolly Carinugan of the Santa Maria Police Station assessed the situation and...
SANTA MARIA, Ilocos Sur – Most Reverend David William V. Antonio was installed as the new and eighth archbishop of the Archdiocese of Nueva Segovia at the Minor Basilica of Our Lady of the Assumption here on Wednesday, Jan. 14. The installation and Mass were presided over by Most Reverend Charles...
SANTA MARIA, Ilocos Sur – The formal installation of the new archbishop of the Archdiocese of Nueva Segovia at the Minor Basilica of Our Lady of the Assumption here will be held on Wednesday, Jan. 14. Apostolic Nuncio to the Philippines Charles John Brown will preside over the canonical...
SANTA MARIA, Ilocos Sur – A 53-year-old former barangay tanod or watchman was allegedly shot dead by his neighbor while tending to his crops in a farm in Barangay Gusing here on Thursday morning, Jan. 8. Police identified the victim as Gani. Initial investigation revealed that the victim was...
Hong Kong — Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC) has revived plans to secure strategic investors for its tollways business in a bid to ease its significant debt burden. Chaye Cabal-Revilla, MPIC chief finance, risk, and sustainability officer, said the conglomerate is seeking to sell a 20...
Metro Pacific Tollways Corp. (MPTC), a unit of Manuel V. Pangilinan-led conglomerate Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC), is planning to use proceeds from its ₱20-billion bond offering to fund three tollway projects and refinance existing obligations. "This bond issuance aims to bolster...
SANTA MARIA, Ilocos Sur – Forty-eight houses were damaged by tornadoes spawned by super typhoon ‘’Nando’’ here on Monday. Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Officer Arwin Vendiola said the tornadoes that started in the sea struck at 11 a.m. and affected Barangays Nagsayaoan,...
Pangilinan-led Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC), the Philippines’ leading infrastructure investments company, has appointed former Philippine Airlines President Gilbert Gabriel F. Santa Maria as the new President and CEO of Metro Pacific Tollways Corp. (MPTC), effective Sept. 1, 2025. Santa...
SANTA MARIA, Ilocos Sur – Apostolic Nuncio to the Philippines Archbishop Charles John Brown on Friday formally declared the historic and miraculous Our Lady of the Assumption Church here as minor basilica during a Mass celebrating the Feast of the Saint Mary the Assumption. With Brown were Nueva...
SANTA MARIA, Pangasinan – A police officer and two individuals were killed in a shooting incident in Sitio Imus, Barangay Samon, this town, before dawn on Sunday, May 11. The slain police officer was identified as Police Staff Sgt. Dennis Jali Oria, 33, assigned to the Tayug, Pangasinan Police...
